FIFTY
Fifty denotes completion followed by renewal: a jubilee after seven times seven years, a fresh beginning, and a four-year lunar cycle.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Symbol
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Greek 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.
- Briareos bears Greek mythology
why
Briareos is one of the three Hundred-Handers of Greek myth, a hundred-armed, fifty-headed son of Sky and Earth, also known as Aigaion, imprisoned by his father and remembered as a guard and ally of the gods.