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The O’Hanlon family coat of arms features a boar and was used as the Standard Bearer for Orior (present day Ulster). Some Irish Keating families have been granted arms containing a boar going through a holly bush to symbolize toughness and courage [citation needed]. In Scotland, a boar's head is the crest of Clan Campbell and Clan Innes.
The boar was originally a symbol of the royal, ancient roots of the family symbolizing the royal bloodline of Galtung (Galthi) meaning boar in Norwegian. The Norse god Ynge-Frey had a "radiant" boar Gullinbursti whom he used as a horse, taking Yngve-Frey faster than any other riding animal could. The fact that the boar Gullinbursti was "radiant ...
Pigs have appeared in literature with a variety of associations, ranging from the pleasures of eating, as in Charles Lamb's A Dissertation upon Roast Pig, to William Golding's Lord of the Flies (with the fat character "Piggy"), where the rotting boar's head on a stick represents Beelzebub, "lord of the flies" being the direct translation of the ...
Articles relating to boars in heraldry. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. C. Coats of arms with boars ...
The boar was a potent symbol for the Celts. In Celtic iconography, they were depicted as especially ferocious, with exaggerated dorsal bristles and elongated ears. The boar was a symbol of war. Tacitus tells us that the Aesti (a Germanic or Celtic tribe) wore boar symbols into battle. On the Celtic Gundestrup cauldron, soldiers wear boar ...
The Japanese boar (Sus scrofa leucomystax), also known as the white-moustached pig, [2] nihon-inoshishi (ニホンイノシシ), [3] or yama kujira (山鯨, lit. "mountain whale"), [3] is a subspecies of wild boar native to all of Japan, apart for Hokkaido and the Ryukyu Islands.
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In the primitive highlands of Arcadia, where old practices lingered, the Erymanthian boar was a giant fear-inspiring creature of the wilds that lived on Mount Erymanthos, a mountain that was apparently once sacred to the Mistress of the Animals, for in classical times it remained the haunt of Artemis (Homer, Odyssey, VI.105).