Oinktick Pigosophy Farm, what a Boar

The Swine seems to represent a number of things, including relentlessness as the boar, the pursuit of pleasure and enjoyment of the luxurious as well as the mundane as the pig, and the forbidden or toxic and worm riddled as the khanseer.

​​​​The swine as a symbol was represented on the imaginary heraldry of the Saracens, as a force of nature coming out of the green dark shadow filled forest or the wild unknown and returning back to it, as well as in modern games such as The Legend of Zelda as the likeness of Ganon, who as Ganondorf represents the Saracen as King of the Arab similitudes, their Muhammed, and the forces of Darkness and Chaos made manifest.

The Swine can be a personal meditative tool and internalized spirit with its various literary and themeatic implications based on associations made by people from its supposed activities and behaviors and whatever factors have led to its associations today.

The pig is generally used as a term for revealing the reality of a person, bluntness and unconcealed “true nature” as opposed to a masked civility, it relates to brutish and plain truth, the underlying in every sense, even to its closeness to the mud or matter.
 “In the abstract, we can say that the Creator makes both light and dark in equal measure. The year is thus divided into two: the dark time when the night is longer than the day, and the light time, when this is reversed.Diarmait hears the hound baying on the last night of the year, and kills the boar on the first day of the new year. The association of boars with Samhain has lasted until recent times, but the boar has been transformed to a sow. Consider thefollowing verse from the vale of the Dee:

A cutty black sowOn every stile,Spinning and cardingEach November-eve.

The parallel between the sow in this verse, and the boar in the story of Diarmait is obvious. In each case, the pig is cropped and black. The stile, with its cross shape has served as an equivalent to crossroads in folk stories. Meeting a cutty black sow on a stile on this night is an earlier version of meeting the devil at the crossroads on the same night.This argument is strengthened by looking at the evidence that the coins provide: On what Van Arsdell gives as the earliest of the Corieltauvian examples, the shaft of the spear that pierces the boar’s back passes through a circle. Within the circle, and either side of the spear are two pellets. This gives the effect of a cross within a circle. This interpretation is supported by one of the fractions where, in a simplified design, a cross within a circle (or a wheel of four spokes) appears as the only element above the boar.In the boar type of the Iceni, the Corieltauvi’s neighbours to the south, the “spear” intersects with the boar’s snout, and is surmounted by a pellet-within-a-circle sun symbol. The overall effect of this is like a Chi-Rho monogram with the left half of the X missing, or being suggested by the shape of the front of the boar’s head.An interesting association of a cross with a boar is provided by a coin of the Aulerci Eburovices, here, a wreath, or ear of grain pattern is intersected by a line terminating in a crescent. This pattern is seen on many Celtic coins, and may be most familiar on the Gallo-Belgic gold staters and their British derivatives. On this coin, however, the crescent is surmounted by a boar, its hind legs standing on a second crescent. At the intersection of both crescents and the boar’s legs, there is a circle.Nowhere is the association between the cross and the boar more clear than in an unattributed Armorican coin, on this coin, the figure of the boar forms the bar of a cross. We return again to Meleager’s spear piercing the boar’s back. If the boar is impaled thus, a cross is formed, and each limb is a season.The cross is a universal symbol. Meanings of this symbol contain “fourness”: the four seasons; winds; elements, and the cardinal points, and also by extension: the centre; the omphalos; wholeness; continuation; addition, and resurrection. It may have a variety of forms including a plus sign, an “X” or a swastika.Being associated with the boar by its position on these coins, we can say that the cross indicates the portal between this world and the underworld, or the yearly cycles of the sun. From the myths given here, the two meanings are really the same.The lightning and sparks of the Calydonian boar are both archetypical of dark forces. Particularly telling, is the damage that the boar does to the crops. All farmers are familiar with the “killing frost” that destroys the new shoots in the spring, and frost, as well as an early snowfall, heavy rain or hail can do the same to the crops before the harvest. If the boar is here symbolising the “dark” part of the year, unseasonable weather would be a fitting result of his inauspicious arrival.The boar’s arrival in the spring and autumn is not entirely unseasonable, but does demand a response. In the spring, the sun warms the cold ground and life begins anew, while in the autumn, the approaching cold triggers the renewal processes of the plants that go to seed or bear fruit. The forces of light and dark are not always separate, but pass their influences back and forth.On some coins of the Coriosolites, and other Armorican tribes, we encounter a boar that has a base line that truncates the lower part of a sun-symbol. The sun symbol in this case is the very common and ancient pellet within a circle. This boar symbol has long been misinterpreted as a military standard. While such objects were undoubtedly carried into battle, we should read them more as totems. They can be viewed as a representation of the point where the sun rises to conquer the darkness. Depending on the context, the Celts could have interpreted this as a sign of the forces of light (themselves) overcoming the forces of darkness (the enemy), or as a symbol of dawn of the day or of the year. In earlier times, this would have been the winter solstice, but the symbology transversed the change of the new year to Samhain.”
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West to East

In China the Pig or Boar is associated with The Lunar Month that starts Winter or brings the forces of darkness and death to the land, and also is the last in the Zodiac or the conclusion before the new cycle “The first half of the month is called 立冬 (or inpinyin: Lìdōng). Literally, it means the “start of winter”. It begins when the Sun reaches the celestial longitude of 225° and ends when it reaches the longitude of 240°. It more often refers in particular to the day when the Sun is exactly at the celestial longitude of 225°. ”
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganon
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http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/Orcus
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https://books.google.ca/books?id=Zl2UgIwrZgMC&pg=PA214&lpg=PA214&dq=Orcus+Pigs&source=bl&ots=3mgWs2CjPy&sig=ZIee5qVHy0H9YV1Hw5txaZM0240&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj66t7gufDTAhVP5mMKHYXzAr4Q6AEIdDAP#v=onepage&q=Orcus%20Pigs&f=false ”
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 Ever since Tolkien, the worlds of fantasy literature and video games have been overrun with tribes of ugly, bellicose humanoids, whose main purpose for existence is to serve as theMooks of the Forces of Evil. Trolls, goblinsand/or hobgoblins (and such) are usually also closely associated with them, or may just be different names for the same thing. The word orc comes from Old English and shares linguistic roots with ogre, borrowed from French. Both terms are related to the LatinOrcus, the name of an Etruscan/Roman god ofThe Underworld which came to denote the place itself (like Greek Hades). Later, Orcus wasglossed as a term for a demon or hell itself. Thus, the Old English word orc, as attested by medieval glossaries – as well as cognates in other languages like French ogre and Italianorco – denoted a kind of demon or monster. However, the only appearance of orc in surviving Old English literature comes fromBeowulf in the form orcnéas, “demon-corpses”, sometimes translated as “living dead” – ghouls,perhaps? Orcnéas are said to be evil creatures descended from Cain, together with eotenas(giants), ylfe (elves) and gigantas (giants, again, so eotenas is sometimes translated as ogres ortrolls). [sup]note [/sup] In modern fiction, Orcs come in two general flavors: the original model developed by J. R. R. Tolkien who borrowed the word from Beowulfand used it for his version of goblins, and the model best exemplified (but far from invented) by Blizzard Entertainment‘s Warcraft series, which is a subversion of the former. Often overlaps with Pig Man; the pun on “pork” is linguistically coincidental. Often the “adopting” parent when a child is Raised by Orcs. 
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Tolkienesque or “traditional” orcs:
Top: Orcs from The Lord of the Rings 
Bottom: Orks from Warhammer 40,000 
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[*]Are Always Chaotic Evil. Tolkien’s Orcs are of debatable morality; while not “peaceful”, their actions are mostly driven by their fear of Sauron or Morgoth.[sup]note [/sup]
[*]Often have pig-like snouts or upturned noses that resemble pig snouts. (Sometimes taken one step further by actually giving them pig heads, like in early editions of Dungeons and Dragons.) May have tusks. This is likely drawn from the fact that “orc” is Welsh for “pig”, and Welsh was the inspiration for Tolkien’s Sindarin.
[*]Are of varying colors; ranging from sallow to gray to red. Green is not unknown, though generally not the vibrant green of “Blizzard” orcs (Dungeons and Dragonsorcs are grayish-green).
[*]Are most likely to be Faceless Goons/Mooks.
[*]Are carnivorous or hypercarnivorous, often cannibalistic.
[*]Are dumb, though this is a case ofFlanderization: Tolkien’s Orcs did have superior technology matched or exceeded only by the Numenorians and Dwarves, and possibly the greatest of the Elves.
[*]Have little or no culture outside of raiding/war parties and worshiping gods of war or the local Evil Overlord.
[*]Related to the above two points, they tendnot to invent anything, but steal/corrupt things others have made.
[*]Usually have oppressive, patriarchal societies, with females being treated as property, provided if female orcs are shown or mentioned. In Tolkien, female orcs were never shown or discussed, though it seems they must have existed. It’s possible that orcs in this case exhibit no sexual dimorphism, and so males and females could not be distinguished without taking a look under the hood. The film bypassed this by having the Uruk-hai created whole from the earth.
[*]Are oftentimes made solely as artificial creatures rather than reproducing naturally, thus explaining the aforementioned lack of females. LOTRimplies that Morgoth created them as “a mockery of the Elves“.
[*]Are of variable strength and size, shorter than humans or elves but taller than dwarves.
[*]May or may not have a British cockney accent (as popularized by LOTR andWarhammer 40,000). ”
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http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OurOrcsAreDifferent
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Pigs and Pig-headedness is also associated with racism, and racists and sexists are often called pigs as well.

Its obliquely connected to racism in numerous other ways as well ever since Biblical and Pre-Biblical times. For example through association with the Others or Goyim ( The Nations ) and the forbidden as well as the Syrio-Greeks fought against by the Maccabees due to their supposed unholy and defiling swine related sacrifices in the temples. The demon force or forces known as Legion were thrown into Palestinian Swine and rushed off into the sea over a cliff.

The forces of darkness and evil in the sense of the Saracen then the armies of Sauron and the legions of Ganon, as well as the elements of Set against Osiris and Isis have all at times been associated with related themes fluctuating in and out. Dead lands and the goring of fertility aspects or blossoming organic nature for example.
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https://books.google.ca/books?id=PLUcb-NK644C&pg=PA111&lpg=PA111&dq=Boar+Forces+of+Darkness&source=bl&ots=BxruRV8R1s&sig=FkaG5cmVJSem_WOmD1bTo4Jc91o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjv4InAwPDTAhUE62MKHVhRBBUQ6AEISzAM#v=onepage&q=Boar%20Forces%20of%20Darkness&f=false
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http://www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk/set.html
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” Set was the black boar who swallowed the moon each month, obscuring its light. He was also identified with the hippopotamus, crocodiles, scorpions, turtles, pigs and donkeys – all animals which were considered to be unclean or dangerous. Some fish were considered to be sacred to Set (most notably the Nile carp and the Oxyrynchus) as they had apparently eaten the penis of Osiris after Set had dismembered the dead king. However, he was most often depicted as a “Set animal” or a man with the head of a “Set animal”. The Set animal (sometimes known as a”Typhonian animal” because of the Greek identification with Typhon) is a dog or jackal like creature, but it is not clear whether it exactly represented an extinct species, or was a mythological beast uniquely associated with Set himself. ”
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http://www.writer2001.com/boars.htm
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” In the story of Venus and Adonis, Adonis is gored in the groin by a boar and he dies from this injury. The grief-stricken Venus decrees that each year the scene of her love’s death will be staged anew. While the boar does not die at the same time as Adonis, the cycle of the year is demonstrated by Venus’ decree. That Adonis is gored in the groin is significant. The boar’s curved tusk is the sickle that Cronos (Father Time) used to castrate his father Uranus. Cronos is banished to the underworld by Zeus for this crime, but he will be born again to repeat the act each year and to this day in the form of the new born baby replacing Father Time and his sickle (now grown into a scythe).Robert Graves points out the parallel of the Druidic custom of the cutting of the sacred mistletoe with a golden sickle to the castration of Uranus by Cronos. The white semen-filled berries of the mistletoe having the obvious connection, and the solar aspect being provided by the colour of the sickle. We also note that the Druid wore white robes for this ceremony, and Father Time is similarly attired.While Father Time returns as the baby, he also returns with his scythe, but now dressed in black, as Death at the end of people’s lives. While the sun returns as the same, people do not, and thus we have the human element of Diarmait that cannot be brought back to life, although his spirit, or the solar meaning of the tale will be restored by Aengus at Newgrange.We should also remember that Odysseus bore the scar of a boar’s tusk in his leg, and it was from this that he was first recognized upon his return to Ithaca. We will recall that at this time it was revealed that he had 360 boars left in his herd. Each boar thus representing one day of the year (more or less, depending on whether we are using the solar, or lunar year).”
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https://books.google.ca/books?id=8m_iDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT88&lpg=PT88&dq=The+Boar+in+Islamic+Heraldry&source=bl&ots=Wiridf7cgU&sig=GDs6TzXD96v0zpJaizK4S8gt5M4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiztfHLw_DTAhVK1GMKHcFoCAUQ6AEINDAD#v=onepage&q=The%20Boar%20in%20Islamic%20Heraldry&f=false
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http://www.khandro.net/animal_swine.htm
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orcus
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” sow (n.) Old English sugu, su “female of the swine,” from Proto-Germanic *su- (source also of Old Saxon, Old High German su, GermanSau, Dutch zeug, Old Norse syr), from PIE root *su- (source also of Sanskrit sukarah”wild boar, swine;” Avestan hu “wild boar;” Greek hys “swine;” Latin sus”swine,” swinus “pertaining to swine;” Old Church Slavonic svinija “swine;” Lettishsivens “young pig;” Welsh hucc, Irish suig”swine; Old Irish socc “snout, plowshare”), possibly imitative of pig noise, a notion reinforced by the fact that Sanskritsukharah means “maker of (the sound) ‘su.’ ” Related to swine. As a term of abuse for a woman, attested from c. 1500. Sow-bug “hog louse” is from 1750. “