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The boar god, corrupted by an iron ball lodged in his body. Okkoto Princess Mononoke: Leader of the boars Olivia Olivia: A pig who is the main character. Oolong: Dragon Ball: An anthropomorphic pig that has the ability to shapeshift, although he is only limited to transforming for five minutes at a time. P-Chan Ranma ½: Ryoga Hibiki's Cursed ...
Boars were commonly hunted, and perhaps even sacrificed, by the Celts. Strabo tells us that the Celts liked pork and evidence from Iron Age settlements, especially elite graves, amply supports this. In supernatural feasts of Irish mythology , pigs are daily slaughtered, eaten, and then brought back to life by magic.
Basan, a fire-breathing chicken from Japanese mythology; Cockatrice, a chicken-headed dragon or serpent, visually similar to or confused with the Basilisk. Gallic rooster, a symbolic rooster used as an allegory for France; Gullinkambi, a rooster who lives in Valhalla in Norse mythology; Rooster of Barcelos, a mythological rooster from Portugal
One of the animals sacred to the Roman goddess Diana was the boar; she sent the Calydonian boar to destroy the land. In Hinduism, the boar-headed Varaha is venerated as an avatar of the god Vishnu. [35] The sow was sacred to the Egyptian goddess Isis and used in sacrifice to Osiris. [36]
A boar was a dangerous animal: "When the goddess turned a wrathful countenance upon a country, as in the story of Meleager, she would send a raging boar, which laid waste the farmers' fields." [10] Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar, by Francisco de Zurbarán, 1634 (Museo del Prado)
Moccus - a Gallic god of boars and pigs; Moritasgus - Gallic healing god of Alesia; Mullo - a Gallic god in Armorica; Nemausus - Gallic god of Nîmes; Niskus - a Brittonic river god; Nodens (Nodons) - a Brittonic god of healing, dogs and hunting; Ogmios - a Gallic god of eloquence; Paronnus - a god known from a lone inscription at Brixia [16]
The etymology of the Old Norse name Sæhrímnir is problematic; in contradiction to the Gylfaginning (and, depending upon translator, Grímnismál) description of the animal as a boar, Sæhrímnir is, in modern scholarship, commonly proposed to mean "sooty sea-beast" or "sooty sea-animal" (which may be connected to Old Norse seyðir, meaning 'cooking ditch'). [1]