Writers employ the word "sieve" both in its literal sense—a tool for straining or filtering—and as a potent metaphor for fragility, inefficiency, or selective retention. In some works, the sieve appears as a physical object used in everyday tasks, such as brewing coffee or straining water, underscoring its practical function (e.g., [1], [2], [3]). At the same time, it serves as a vivid metaphor for human limitations and the ephemeral nature of memory or wealth, suggesting that nothing, not even water or wisdom, can be securely held (as seen in the imagery of a head “like a sieve” [4] or ideas slipping away “like water through a sieve” [5], [6]). In folklore and mythology, the sieve further carries symbolic weight, representing both the passage of time and the selective process of sifting truth from embellishment (for instance, its role in celestial mythology [7] and philosophical musings on wisdom [8]).