Lead
Lead denotes weight, density, inertia, ignorance, death, and Saturn’s unregenerate state, while alchemy treats it as matter awaiting transformation.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Symbol
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Roman 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.
- Saturn bears Roman mythology
why
In the later symbolic tradition Saturn accumulates a great deal more — time itself, fate, rational constraint, and the lead that alchemy waits patiently to transform — but every one of those is an accretion onto a god who began by looking after the sowing.