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The card shows the head of a Boar in front of a large circle of Celtic knotwork.
The boar attained greater renown in the Old World.
Most of the symbolism about boar comes from the Celts.
They connected the boar with battle and leadership. It gave strength and courageand was associated with the warrior spirit and leadership
To dream of boar, or to have a vision of one, indicated the warrior or war and a fearless band of men.
Boar bristles were valued, and considered filled with innate power. In one Celtic legend, Fion steps on a boar bristle and dies, after breaking a >gaeas< (vow, or in this case prohibition) against hunting boars. In the end the bristle had more power than man, and indirectly the boar dispensed justice.
Ceridwin, goddess of inspiration was represented by a boar and often traveled as a sow .
Boar meet was buried with the dead to lend strengths in the afterlife.
Muic-inis or boar Island is an old name for Ireland
Like the druid, the boar was closely connected with the forest, feeding on acorns, while the wild sow, symbolically surrounded by her nine piglets, rooted in the ground at the foot of the apple, the tree of immortality. Since the Celts' herds of pigs lived more or less in the wild, the pig and the wild boar were often undifferentiated, and since the boar was the animal dedicated to Lug, pork was the sacrificial food at the festival of Samain (1 November). A number of legends tell of the feasts in tbe Otherworld at which there is a magic pig, always perfectly cooked and never growing less. Mercury is given the surname, Moccus, ('pig') in a Gallo-Roman inscription from Langres (France). The Twrch Trwyth (Irish: triath, 'king') with which Arthur did battle symbolizes the power of the priesthood in conflict with that of the king at a time of spiritual decline. Lug's father, Cian, changed himself into a 'druidic pig' to escape his pursuers.
Nowhere in Irish literature, not even when under Christian influence, is the boar anything but a symbol of good.
The Carnyx (battle horn) of Scotland and Wales bore the figure of the boar's head. Their helmets and shields were often adorned by its image.
It also is interesting to read up on Boar in the Druid Animal Oracle...
The Vikings also venerated boar's warlike qualities. It was invoked by Nordic warriors to give them the fortitude and determination to win.
Frig and Freya were also guided by fearless boars and Norse warriors wore helmets in boar head shape and adorned with boar teeth.
A boar's tooth - often mounted and maybe even with a piece of Jasper added is an important Talisman / luck charm for Gypsies.
Since there are no more Bears and Wolves in Europe's forests, the surviving wild Boars have few enemies.
In the southern US there are small populations of introduced wild pigs and in theTexas and northern Mexico lives the much smaller Peccary.
The boar attained greater renown in the Old World.
Most of the symbolism about boar comes from the Celts.
They connected the boar with battle and leadership. It gave strength and courageand was associated with the warrior spirit and leadership
To dream of boar, or to have a vision of one, indicated the warrior or war and a fearless band of men.
Boar bristles were valued, and considered filled with innate power. In one Celtic legend, Fion steps on a boar bristle and dies, after breaking a >gaeas< (vow, or in this case prohibition) against hunting boars. In the end the bristle had more power than man, and indirectly the boar dispensed justice.
Ceridwin, goddess of inspiration was represented by a boar and often traveled as a sow .
Boar meet was buried with the dead to lend strengths in the afterlife.
Muic-inis or boar Island is an old name for Ireland
Like the druid, the boar was closely connected with the forest, feeding on acorns, while the wild sow, symbolically surrounded by her nine piglets, rooted in the ground at the foot of the apple, the tree of immortality. Since the Celts' herds of pigs lived more or less in the wild, the pig and the wild boar were often undifferentiated, and since the boar was the animal dedicated to Lug, pork was the sacrificial food at the festival of Samain (1 November). A number of legends tell of the feasts in tbe Otherworld at which there is a magic pig, always perfectly cooked and never growing less. Mercury is given the surname, Moccus, ('pig') in a Gallo-Roman inscription from Langres (France). The Twrch Trwyth (Irish: triath, 'king') with which Arthur did battle symbolizes the power of the priesthood in conflict with that of the king at a time of spiritual decline. Lug's father, Cian, changed himself into a 'druidic pig' to escape his pursuers.
Nowhere in Irish literature, not even when under Christian influence, is the boar anything but a symbol of good.
The Carnyx (battle horn) of Scotland and Wales bore the figure of the boar's head. Their helmets and shields were often adorned by its image.
It also is interesting to read up on Boar in the Druid Animal Oracle...
The Vikings also venerated boar's warlike qualities. It was invoked by Nordic warriors to give them the fortitude and determination to win.
Frig and Freya were also guided by fearless boars and Norse warriors wore helmets in boar head shape and adorned with boar teeth.
A boar's tooth - often mounted and maybe even with a piece of Jasper added is an important Talisman / luck charm for Gypsies.
Since there are no more Bears and Wolves in Europe's forests, the surviving wild Boars have few enemies.
In the southern US there are small populations of introduced wild pigs and in theTexas and northern Mexico lives the much smaller Peccary.
