Maybe the sun-looking symbol is kinda like the cactus - it has "spikes' sticking out of it like cactus needles.

Not so sure about the circles and the bastketball - maybe the circles are kinda like a closed up rose bud (if you look at them from the top, the petals form concentric circles like the ones in the symbol). I guess the different sections of the basketball could be like the petals of the lotus.

Dunno, just guessing here!