2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
According to modern research, pigs are very sensitive and intelligent creatures, with a very strong sense of smell and a collective spirit. The pig also becomes very attached to its owner, and if it is very injured, it can get an ulcer. It is fourth in intelligence after humans, monkeys and dolphins.
It remains the only animal whose organs are still used for transplants in the human body. But while the humans hid in the skins of slaughtered animals, the pigs guarded their skins by rolling in the mud.
In his book The Golden Branch, James Fraser examines in detail the oscillation between the divine and the filthy that the pig was charged with in ancient Egypt. The Egyptians loathed the pig and they considered him a filthy and disgusting animal. If a person even inadvertently touched a pig, he had to enter the river with his clothes to wash away the stain.
Pig farmers were forbidden to enter temples and marry each other because no one wanted to give their daughter in marriage to a pig farmer. However, once a year, the Egyptians sacrificed pigs to the moon and Osiris and even ate their meat, something they had never done before. This cannot be explained otherwise than by the assumption that the pig was a sacred animal and was eaten as a communion once a year.
When a being is the object of mixed and contradictory feelings, he is in an uncertain balance. Over time, the one will prevail, and depending on whether it is worship or disgust, the being will be assigned to the deities or will descend to the position of the devil. The last thing seems to have happened to the pig in Egypt. He began to be seen as the incarnation of Seth (ie, Typhon, the Egyptian devil and enemy of Osiris).
But when an animal is killed only once a year, it almost always means that the animal is sacred and is spared and respected for the rest of the year, and when it is killed, it is killed as a god.
The attitude of the Jews towards the pig was as ambiguous as that of the pagan Syrians towards it. The Greeks could not decide whether the Jews adored the pig or disgusted it. On the one hand, they should not eat pork, on the other hand, they could not kill pigs. And if the first rule speaks of impurity, the second leads even more to the idea that the animal was sacred.
At least initially, the pig was revered rather than despised. As early as the time of Isaac, some Jews secretly met in gardens to eat pork and mouse as a religious rite. Undoubtedly, this is a very ancient ceremony, dating back to the time when the pig and the mouse were worshiped as deities and in rare and solemn cases their flesh was accepted as communion with the body and blood of the deity.
To the ancient Chinese, the pig was a symbol of courage, strength and fertility. The boar is even present in the Chinese horoscope, where it is perceived as a symbol of sincerity, honesty and devotion.
Nowadays, it is fashionable to raise dwarf piglets instead of pets.
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