Pig

The Pig/Boar has a turbulent relationship with:
Snake
Personality Traits:
People born under the year of the Boar tend to be: brave, giving, like commitment, unpretentious, incredibly enduring, reliant, strong and trusty.

Pig
Our Chinese Astrology section discusses the characteristics of each of the signs, and you can find out more about the Chinese language and characters in our introduction to Chinese Symbols.

THE BLIND PIG
(41) Many becomes two: two one: one Naught. What comes to Naught? What! shall the Adept give up his hermit life, and go eating and drinking and making merry? Ay! shall he not do so?

Without contemplating these principles, we should think it incredible that the grunting or squeaking of a little pig, or the sight of a simple sheep, should terrify a mighty elephant! ...

The pig was the sacrificial beast, representing death and rebirth. So are the goddesses Demeter and Persephone symbolic of death and rebirth.

Is a pig a man because it eats truffles off a golden plate? Can one be proud of commanding others when one is not master of one's self? Alexander the Great conquered the Indians and the Persians and was unable to conquer his own intemperance.

Some of the 'tumors' removed from patients have been found to be chicken or pig organs, other lumps of animal flesh, or balls of cotton wool palmed by the surgeon. Kidney stones have been exposed as ordinary pebbles.

Story of Mac Dathó's Pig
Perseus Digital Library
Anniina Jokinen: Luminarium: Middle English/Renaissance/17thCent Literature
Corsair: Online Research Resource of the Pierpont Morgan Library
Reading about the World ...

Yet this is what many a boy is doing and seeing from day to day until he becomes hardened to the taking of life; and then some day, instead of cutting the throat of a lamb or a pig he kills a man, ...

See also: World, Spirit, Anima, Christ, Spiritual