Cone
The pine cone denotes solar fire, the world-axis, fertility, good fortune, and spiraling generative force, serving as divine emblem and priestly or royal headwear.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Symbol
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Mesopotamian mythology (1)
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is, or is partly, this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- Apkallu bears Mesopotamian mythology
why
… carrying a bucket and a cone with which they perform a …