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Pig

Beings · Nature

Pig as an animal people have named and used. Abundance, Sacrifice, Good Luck — one living kind, not a single symbol.

  • Pig is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats the pig among domestic animals with fat and other parts entering Roman pharmacological speech. A named pig in that encyclopedia, not wild boar as the hunt animal already nearby and not a dietary-law dump alone.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

    used in · sourced · documented

Islam

  • Pig appears in Islam.

    The Qur’an names swine’s flesh among foods forbidden to the community. A named animal in that dietary revelation, not a farmyard dump and not the dog of the cave.

    from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

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Egyptian religion

  • Pig appears in Egyptian religion.

    Herodotus’s Egyptian logos treats pigs among sacrifice and taboo customs. A named pig in that traveler’s speech, not a generic farm dump and not Pliny pharmacy alone.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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  • Pig is sacred to Typhon.

    Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris seats the pig as Typhon’s animal in Egyptian sacrifice and taboo speech — swine offered in Typhon-facing rites and kept apart from other holy animals in that treatise. A named pig–Typhon cult link under this source, not a generic unclean-animal dump.

    from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE

    sacred to · sourced · culturally specific

Hellenic religion

  • Pig appears in Hellenic religion.

    Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 14 seats Circe’s swine-transformation of Odysseus’s men among the Aeaean episode. A named pig/swine metamorphosis in that poem, not domestic farm-pig dump alone and not boar as the wild Calydonian walk already filed.

    from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE

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