Mace
The mace denotes absolute authority, office, creative command, and victory by crushing force, serving as Heracles’ attribute and a Sumerian battle emblem.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Symbol
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Persian 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.
- Aeshma bears Persian mythology
why
He is frequently invoked alongside weapons and battle, and in some tellings he is depicted carrying a bloody club or mace as an emblem of violent assault.