Tablet
The tablet denotes law, divine command, recorded destiny, esoteric authority, and a resting place for ancestral souls.
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.
- Anzû bears Mesopotamian mythology
why
The creature is most famous for its audacious theft of the Tablets of Destiny from Enlil, the chief deity of the Mesopotamian pantheon.