{ "manifest": { "schema": "babelon-symbol-atlas/1", "tier": "structure", "generated_at": "2026-10-16T20:14:32+00:00", "sources": { "jawnomicon": { "export": "v49", "canon_commit": "b69142c7", "repo_commit": "b69142c7" }, "bridger": { "repo_commit": "f6f2a54" } }, "counts": { "symbols": 1130, "in_both": 209, "jawnomicon_only": 817, "bridger_only": 104, "glossed": 1130, "glossless": 0, "with_creatures": 86, "borne_creatures": 308, "creatures": 316, "registry_rows": 33331, "on_registry": 1067, "joined_by_registry_id": 252, "joined_by_domain_slug": 9, "joined_by_title_bundle": 8, "with_domain": 313, "multi_portrayal": 216, "figure_and_symbol": 13, "with_denotation_neighbours": 31 } }, "symbols": [ { "slug": "aaron-s-rod", "name": "Aaron's rod", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Aaron’s rod denotes priestly authority and divine power, joining its serpent and plague-working biblical role with flowering fertility, resurrection, and Christological meanings.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "aaron-s-rod", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "abandonment", "name": "abandonment", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Abandonment marks a folkloric ordeal affecting exposed exceptional children and slandered wives, whose exile often leads to recognition, healing, or restored status.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "abandonment", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "abnormality", "name": "Abnormality", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Abnormality denotes ambivalent magical potential, with unusual bodies or untimely behavior interpreted as chthonic power, good fortune, or ominous disorder.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "abnormality", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "abracadabra", "name": "abracadabra", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Abracadabra is a triangularly written magical formula associated with sacred names, protective amulets, and remedies for fever, inflammation, or misfortune.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "abracadabra", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "abraxas", "name": "Abraxas", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Abraxas names the Gnostic supreme source of 365 emanations, but a separate Greek tradition identifies Abraxas as an immortal horse of Helios.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "caveats": [ "homonym" ], "registry_id": "abraxas", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "abyss", "name": "Abyss", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The abyss denotes depth and abasement, while its primordial waters are associated variously with cosmic origins, the underworld, motherhood, or Gnostic divinity.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "abyss", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "acacia", "name": "acacia", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Acacia denotes resilient life, immortality, innocence, and rebirth, while its sacred wood, paired flower colors, and thorns also connect it with mourning and lunar power.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "acacia", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "acanthus", "name": "Acanthus", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Acanthus denotes vigorous life, immortality, lunar horns, and artistic veneration, although Christian use emphasizes its thorns as pain, sin, and punishment.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "acanthus", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "aconite", "name": "aconite", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Aconite denotes poison, crime, harmful speech, and illicit love, with Graeco-Roman lore linking the witch-flower to Saturn and Cerberus.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "aconite", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "acorn", "name": "acorn", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The acorn denotes life, fertility, strength, virility, immortality, and androgyny, especially through Celtic, Scandinavian, and Thor-associated traditions.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "acorn", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "adder", "name": "Adder", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The adder denotes sudden venomous danger and, in Christian imagery, evil or willful deafness to doctrine, while broader lore also gives it guarding roles.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "adder", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "adonai", "name": "Adonai", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Adonai is a reverential Hebrew title meaning my Lord, substituted for the ineffable divine name and associated with sunlight, liturgy, and the Kabbalistic Kingdom.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ] }, { "slug": "aerolite", "name": "Aerolite", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "An aerolite denotes revelation descending to earth, understood as creative heavenly fire, celestial communication, spiritual life, or an angelic messenger.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "aerolite", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "afterbirth", "name": "afterbirth", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Afterbirth is treated as a material double or soul-linked remainder of a newborn, whose burial, protection, and condition are believed to influence the child’s fate.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "afterbirth", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "agate", "name": "Agate", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Agate denotes courage, calm, health, prosperity, longevity, and spiritual love, while folk medicine also credited powdered stone with countering poison.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "agate", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-air", "name": "Air", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Air denotes the lightest element, the medium holding earth apart from sky and carrying prayer between them, and by extension quickness of mind.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "air", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "air", "title": "Air", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Air — Wind and Weather", "sense_count": 16, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "bridger-airplane", "name": "Airplane", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The airplane denotes the modern conquest of the sky, holding pioneering ascent and aerial devastation together, and grants the overhead view once reserved for gods.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "essay", "domain": { "id": "airplane", "title": "Airplane", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Movement and Expression", "sense_count": 0, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "alastor", "name": "Alastor", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Alastor denotes a hereditary avenging or evil spirit, although Greek genealogy also uses the name for a mortal son of Neleus.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "alastor", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "albatross", "name": "albatross", "register": "concept", "gloss": "The albatross denotes tireless oceanic flight, approaching storms, and sailors’ souls, making its presence weather-significant and its killing dangerously unlucky.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "albatross", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "alchemy", "name": "alchemy", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Alchemy is the transmutation of base matter toward gold, associated materially with experimental chemistry and symbolically with illumination, salvation, and perfected transformation.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "alchemy", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "alchera", "name": "alchera", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Alchera denotes the Australian Aboriginal ancestral Dreaming, a mythic formative past inhabited by totemic ancestors and culture-shaping spirits such as the Mura-mura.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "alchera", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "alcohol", "name": "alcohol", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Alcohol denotes an alchemical union of fire and water, creation and destruction, while Mesopotamian sources associate beer and wine with banquets, medicine, and libation.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "alcohol", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "denotation_neighbours": [ { "slug": "beer", "evidence": "Alcohol denotes an alchemical union of fire and water, creation and destruction, while Mesopotamian sources associate beer and wine with banquets, medicine, and libation." } ] }, { "slug": "aldebaran", "name": "Aldebaran", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Aldebaran is Taurus’s reddish Bull’s Eye, imagined as the follower of the Pleiades, a heavenly guardian, rain-bringer, fortunate star, or divine eye.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "aldebaran", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "alder", "name": "alder", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Alder denotes death, smith-fire, evaporation, divination, and resurrection, with traditions associating the waterside tree with Pan, Bran, spring rites, and primordial humanity.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "alder", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "almond", "name": "almond", "register": "concept", "gloss": "The almond denotes awakening, watchfulness, virginity, feminine sexuality, conjugal happiness, and divine favor, its early flowering also linking it with spring and attentive endurance.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "almond", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "aloe", "name": "Aloe", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Aloe denotes bitterness and grief alongside integrity, wisdom, and affection, reflecting the plant’s bitter resin, medicinal uses, and dedication to Zeus.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "aloe", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "aloes", "name": "Aloes", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Aloes denotes medicinal and magical aromatic gums in one source, while another applies the name to a purported New World creature described by European travelers.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "aloes", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "alsirat", "name": "Alsirat", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Alsirat is the perilously narrow Islamic bridge over hell, denoting judgment and passage to paradise as the righteous cross swiftly while the wicked fall.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "alsirat", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "altar", "name": "altar", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The altar denotes divine presence, sacrifice, thanksgiving, and cosmic centrality, with its elevation and eastward orientation marking ritual ascent, renewal, and passage beyond death.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "altar", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "amaranth", "name": "Amaranth", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Amaranth denotes immortality, fidelity, faith, and constant love through the imagined unfading flower, also offered to the lunar hare in China.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "amaranth", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "amber", "name": "amber", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Amber denotes solidified sunlight, courage, magical strength, and aid for the dead, with traditions connecting the ancient resin to Apollo, Freyja, and tigers.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "amber", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "ambrosia", "name": "ambrosia", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Ambrosia is the gods’ immortality-granting nourishment, described variously as food, drink, or anointing substance and used to immortalize or sustain favored beings.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "ambrosia", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "amethyst", "name": "amethyst", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Amethyst denotes sobriety, piety, humility, healing, and mental peace, its name and amuletic reputation especially promising protection from intoxication.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "amethyst", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "anadem", "name": "Anadem", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "An anadem is a garland denoting dedication, holiness, honor, good fortune, fertility, and distinction, while its binding form can also imply subjugation or victory.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "anadem", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "ananga", "name": "ANANGA", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Ananga, the Bodiless, is an epithet of Kama associated with love’s incorporeal power after Shiva’s fiery gaze consumed the god’s body.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "ananga", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-ancestor", "name": "Ancestor", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Ancestors are those gone before, at once benevolent custodians of a lineage's vitality and fierce presences that haunt, possess and shame their neglectful descendants.", "attestations": 1, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "domain": { "id": "ancestor", "title": "Ancestor", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Soul and Psyche", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "domain_slug", "creatures": [ { "id": "2_asena", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "She is a mythical ancestor, giving birth to a lineage of warriors." }, { "id": "g4_anito", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Ancestors form a substantial part of the category: the recently dead remain involved in the affairs of their descendants and are addressed as such." }, { "id": "g7_tuisto", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "That is a reception rather than a tradition — a Renaissance habit of reading every ancestral figure as one of the giants of Genesis — and the card keeps the two apart: earth-born ancestor in Tacitus, giant in the later books, with nothing in the earlier source supporting the promotion." } ] }, { "slug": "anchor", "name": "Anchor", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The anchor denotes hope, stability, salvation, security, and steadfast faith, while anchor-and-dolphin imagery balances restraint with speed and can disguise the Christian cross.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "anchor", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "anemone", "name": "Anemone", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The anemone denotes abandonment, brief life, sorrow, and death, with its red bloom associated with Adonis’s blood, Aphrodite’s grief, and Christ’s Passion.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "anemone", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-angel", "name": "Angel", "register": "domain", "gloss": "An angel is a messenger of supernatural revelation, ranked in nine choirs and morally ambiguous, holding the power to save and to annihilate alike.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "angel", "census": { "class": "spirit", "status": "candidate", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "angel", "title": "Angel", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Mythical Beings", "sense_count": 5, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "g4_gabriel", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "He is variously the angel of death for particular peoples, the recorder, and the one who blows the trumpet that ends the age — though that last office is assigned to different angels in different sources and should not be treated as settled." }, { "id": "g5_azazel", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "That development casts Azazel as one of the leading Watchers, angels who descend to take human wives and father a race of giants, and credits him specifically with teaching forbidden crafts: metalworking and the making of swords, knives, shields, and armor, introducing organized violence, and the arts of cosmetics, dye, and jewelry taught to women, blamed for spreading vanity and seduction." } ] }, { "slug": "angling", "name": "Angling", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Angling denotes patient governance in Chinese thought and Christian conversion through fishers of souls, while literary uses also associate it with quiet trust.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "angling", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "animal", "name": "Animal", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Animal form denotes instinctive or archetypal power and humanity’s kinship with nature; animal masks specifically restore communion, wisdom, or identification with the represented power.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "animal", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "animals", "name": "animals", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Animals denote instinct, fertility, emotion, ancestral kinship, and intuitive aid, while taming or slaying them represents mastery of corresponding impulses within human nature.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "animals", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "animals-sacred", "name": "Animals, sacred", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Sacred animals are divine familiars or emblems whose species, hybrid forms, and attributes identify particular deities and materialize their powers in ritual and art.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "animals-sacred", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "animism", "name": "animism", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Animism denotes belief that animals, plants, objects, places, and natural events possess souls or personalities, often producing local, place-based, polytheistic sacred worlds.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "animism", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "ankh", "name": "Ankh", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The ankh denotes life, generation, immortality, authority, and hidden knowledge, joining male and female principles and restoring breath to the dead.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "ankh", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "creatures": [ { "id": "g1_anubis", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "He is frequently shown holding a flail or an ankh, and his jackal form recalls the scavenging dogs and jackals that Egyptians observed prowling desert cemeteries, which likely gave rise to his early association with the dead and the necropolis." } ] }, { "slug": "anna", "name": "Anna", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Anna refers either to Saint Anne, invoked for fertility, wealth, and lost goods, or to an obscure Arthurian heroine named as Arthur’s sister.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "anna", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "anointing", "name": "Anointing", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Anointing denotes consecration, divine grace, joy, and elevated status, extending an everyday use of fine oil into rites for brides, priests, transactions, and manumission.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "anointing", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "ant", "name": "Ant", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The ant denotes industry, prudence, order, foresight, civic virtue, and transience, though heraldry uses it only rarely and some folklore treats abundance as ominous.", "attestations": 5, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "ant", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "ant", "title": "Ant", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Arachnids and Insects", "sense_count": 13, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "antelope", "name": "Antelope", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The antelope denotes swiftness, lunar and divine power, fierceness, and dangerous strength; its horns and skins also serve as charms, spirit-containers, and medicine emblems.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "antelope", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "creatures": [ { "id": "1_jackalope", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "A North American mythical animal that is a jackrabbit with antelope horns." }, { "id": "2_calygreyhound", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "In Medieval lore, Calygreyhound is a mythical beast with the head of a wildcat, the body of an antelope, and the hooves of a deer." }, { "id": "g4_delgeth", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Delgeth are the man-eating antelopes of Navajo tradition, monstrous survivors of the world's early age destroyed by the twin heroes who cleared the land for people to live in." } ] }, { "slug": "anthropomorphism", "name": "anthropomorphism", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human appearance, behavior, or personality to gods, natural forces, objects, and especially animals.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "anthropomorphism", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "antlers", "name": "Antlers", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Antlers denote intelligence, solar rays, fertility, armed strength, supernatural mastery of nature, and shamanic rank, while also serving as attributes of horned divinities.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "antlers", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "anvil", "name": "Anvil", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The anvil denotes earth and receptive matter within the primordial forge, pairing with the hammer as complementary formative powers of creation, fertility, and craftsmanship.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "anvil", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "denotation_neighbours": [ { "slug": "hammer", "evidence": "The anvil denotes earth and receptive matter within the primordial forge, pairing with the hammer as complementary formative powers of creation, fertility, and craftsmanship." } ] }, { "slug": "ao", "name": "Ao", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Ao denotes Polynesian daylight and the living world, the era of human existence contrasted with Po’s darkness and spirit realm.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "ao", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "ape", "name": "Ape", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The ape denotes mimicry, lust, conceit, and cunning in European and Christian traditions, but Hindu symbolism instead associates it with Hanuman’s benevolence and gentleness.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "ape", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "ape", "title": "Ape/Monkey", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Wild Animals", "sense_count": 8, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "g3_babi", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Babi is a fierce baboon god of darkness, virility, and the dead, named in Egyptian funerary texts and echoed in later Greek incantations concerning the afterlife." }, { "id": "g6_cercopes", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Cercopes are a pair of thieving, monkey-like tricksters of Greek legend — knaves who roamed the world cheating men until Heracles caught and bound them in Lydia." } ] }, { "slug": "bridger-apple", "name": "Apple", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The apple denotes rejuvenation, love and hidden wisdom alongside sin, deceit and discord, and splits to reveal a five-pointed star read as a feminine sign.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "apple", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "apple", "title": "Apple", "world": "Plant World", "sub": "Magical Plants and Flowers", "sense_count": 12, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "g6_fachan", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "An Irish manuscript account of the same misshapen kind arms it terribly, with a thick iron flail-club in its skinny hand carrying twenty chains, and fifty apples on every chain, every one of them capable of harm." } ] }, { "slug": "apricot", "name": "Apricot", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The apricot denotes self-generating androgyny and feminine sexuality, while its blossom suggests timid love and Chinese tradition associates the fruit with death.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "apricot", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "apron", "name": "Apron", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The apron denotes craftsmanship, fertility, and concealed sexuality; Chinese ceremonial use adds innocence, friendship, and a division between elevated and baser bodily realms.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "apron", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "apron", "title": "Apron", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Tools and Other Objects", "sense_count": 7, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "aquamarine", "name": "Aquamarine", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Aquamarine denotes youth, health, hope, intelligence, and constancy in love, though some lore warns that the blue-green birthstone can provoke jealousy.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "aquamarine", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "aquarius", "name": "Aquarius", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Aquarius is the zodiacal Water-Carrier, whose poured waters denote creation, destructive flood, cyclic renewal, winter rain, and the life-giving sources of rivers.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "aquarius", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "aquila", "name": "Aquila", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Aquila is the named eagle of Greek myth that carried Zeus’s thunderbolts into the gods’ war against the Titans.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "aquila", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "ara", "name": "Ara", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Ara is a constellation whose brief appearance above the horizon was treated as a warning of dangerous sailing conditions.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "ara", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "arabia", "name": "Arabia", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Arabia is a storied region associated with the Phoenix, Magi, deserts, spices, oil, and classical journeys by figures including Heracles and Egyptus.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "arabia", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "arbutus", "name": "arbutus", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Arbutus denotes Golden Age sustenance and protective sacred vegetation, with Roman lore associating its evergreen form and red fruit with Hermes and Cardea.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "arbutus", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "arch", "name": "arch", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The arch denotes heaven, sanctuary, the feminine generative principle, rebirth through passage, religious faith, and triumph, including Roman military victory.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "arch", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "archangels", "name": "Archangels", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Archangels are a high angelic order whose named members embody judgment, mercy, healing, guardianship, fire, prophecy, beauty, and justice in Christian and Islamic traditions.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "archangels", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "aries", "name": "Aries", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Aries denotes the zodiacal Ram’s creative fire, dawn, and renewed solar energy, while classical myth also names the winged Golden-Fleece ram Aries.", "attestations": 5, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "caveats": [ "homonym" ], "registry_id": "aries", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "aristotle", "name": "Aristotle", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Aristotle here is the philosopher humbled by Phyllis in a medieval exemplum teaching that intellectual wisdom is powerless or unfruitful without virtue.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "aristotle", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "ark", "name": "ark", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The ark denotes preservation, regeneration, womb-like protection, and continuity through flood, while Christian, Hebrew, and Egyptian readings make it Church, divine presence, or sacred vessel.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "ark", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-arm", "name": "Arm", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The arm denotes agency and making, raised for supplication or invocation and extended into weaponry, so that the same limb builds, embraces and destroys.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "arm", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "arm", "title": "Arm", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "armour", "name": "Armour", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Armour denotes chivalry, strength, and protection, but can also imply warfare’s fanaticism and force; Christian imagery makes it spiritual defense against evil.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "armour", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "arms", "name": "Arms", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Arms here denote the transverse human correspondence of the cross, associated with cosmic directions, rain, fertility, health, and the extension of life into space.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "arms", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "arrow", "name": "arrow", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The arrow denotes directed force, penetration, war, lightning, rain, fertility, solar rays, and irreversible action; Mesopotamian imagery also uses it for the star Sirius.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "arrow", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "creatures": [ { "id": "1_achiyalabopa", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "From Pueblo folklore, this bird is covered in arrow-like feathers." }, { "id": "2_ankou", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Others portray it wielding a scythe or an arrow, symbols of its role in severing the ties between the living and the dead." }, { "id": "g1_wyvern", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "It typically has a long, scaled, serpentine body tapering into a barbed or arrow-shaped tail, which is frequently shown knotted in heraldic depictions." }, { "id": "g7_glooscap", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Wabanaki culture hero of the Dawnland, who tamed the winds, secured food and water, shaped the country, and went west to make arrows for the last day." } ] }, { "slug": "ash", "name": "Ash", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Ash denotes an adaptable, protective cosmic tree sacred to Zeus and Yggdrasil traditions; separately, Egyptian myth names Ash as a western-desert god.", "attestations": 5, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "caveats": [ "homonym" ], "registry_id": "ash", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "asherah", "name": "asherah", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Asherah denotes Semitic sacred trees or votive wooden posts associated with feminine divinity, Astarte, sanctuary 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uncertainty, and lamentation, its trembling leaves also inspiring sympathetic cures for fever and ague.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "aspen", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "asphodel", "name": "Asphodel", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Asphodel denotes death, eternity, and the neutral meadows of Hades, later becoming a funerary emblem of paradise, regret, cemeteries, and ruins.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "asphodel", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "ass", "name": "Ass", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The ass denotes humility, patience, poverty, stubbornness, lust, and fertility; traditions variously associate it with Christ, kingship, Set, Dionysus, evil, or protective purity.", "attestations": 5, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "ass", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "assyria", "name": "Assyria", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Assyria is represented as divine punishment in biblical tradition and elsewhere as a land of perfumes, magical herbs, and Adonis’s eastern associations.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "assyria", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "aster", "name": "Aster", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The aster denotes beauty, humility, elegance, and love, with its star-shaped flower linked to Aphrodite, Venus, protective fumigation, altars, and love divination.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "aster", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-attic", "name": "Attic", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The attic denotes the stored upper room of the psyche, holding childhood relics, forsaken things and what the mind confines out of sight.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "attic", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "attic", "title": "Attic", "world": "Human World", "sub": "House and Home", "sense_count": 7, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "augury", "name": "augury", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Augury is formal divination from birds and other omens, including animal movement, thunder, and lightning, interpreted within ritually marked space.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "augury", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "aunt-nancy", "name": "Aunt Nancy", "register": "concept", "gloss": "A Gullah name for Anansi, the cunning spider trickster carried from West African storytelling into South Carolina folklore.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "creature" ], "registry_id": "aunt-nancy", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "canon", "canon_id": "1_anansi" }, "canon_creature": "1_anansi" }, { "slug": "aurora-borealis", "name": "Aurora Borealis", "register": "concept", "gloss": "The aurora borealis is the northern lights, interpreted as spirits of the dead at play and, farther south, as an extraordinary celestial omen.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "aurora-borealis", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-ax", "name": "Ax", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The ax denotes the discriminating stroke that divides unlike things, joining sky-god thunder and the clearing of forest with the severing of judgment.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "ax", "census": { "class": "object-being", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "ax", "title": "Ax", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Tools and Other Objects", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "axe", "name": "Axe", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The axe denotes divine and royal power, thunder, rain-fertility, judgment, sacrifice, punishment, and conquest over error, especially in double-axe traditions.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "axe", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "ba", "name": "Ba", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The Egyptian ba denotes the mobile soul, conventionally pictured as a bird or a bird with a human head.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "ba", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "babe", "name": "Babe", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Babe denotes vulnerable new life, yet Blake makes it rebellious Orc; the Babes-in-the-Wood tale casts it as imperiled fertility or light.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "babe", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "baboon", "name": "Baboon", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The baboon denotes intelligence and dawn-facing wisdom, its sunrise gestures representing solar salutation and associating it especially with Egyptian Thoth and Hapi.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "baboon", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "babylon", "name": "Babylon", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Babylon denotes religious magnificence and luxury but, in Jewish and Christian imagery, also captivity, persecution, idolatry, vice, apocalyptic corruption, and hostile empire.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "babylon", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "badger", "name": "Badger", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The badger denotes clumsiness, cunning, lunar magic, weather knowledge, healing, and trickery, while European moral imagery makes it Avarice’s mount and East Asian lore supernatural.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "badger", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "creatures": [ { "id": "2_mujina", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Mujina is a shape-shifting badger from Japanese folklore, capable of transforming into a human form." }, { "id": "2_rompo", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "The Rompo, a creature from Indian and African folklore, is a bizarre being, with the limbs of a rabbit, the head of a hare, and the body of a badger." } ] }, { "slug": "bag", "name": "Bag", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The bag denotes containment, secrecy, fertility, hidden treasure, clouds, and captured winds, including Aeolus’s dangerous gift of contrary winds.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "bag", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bagpipe", "name": "bagpipe", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The bagpipe denotes fertile breath and Pan-like wind, but its drone and performance contexts also evoke melancholy, peasant festivity, carnival, and military music.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "bagpipe", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "baking", "name": "Baking", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Baking signifies erotic union in literary symbolism, but a Philippine source names Baking as one of three dead ritual specialists invoked for harvest.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "baking", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "balance", "name": "Balance", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The balance denotes justice, impartial judgment, equilibrium, and measured merit, though famine imagery makes it rationing scarcity and Egyptian contexts connect it with death.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "balance", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-baldness", "name": "Baldness", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Baldness denotes exposure and vulnerability, read variously as psychic death and rebirth, renunciation by tonsure, or the mark of a bookish and superior intellect.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "baldness", "title": "Baldness", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 4, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "ball", "name": "Ball", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The ball denotes earth, celestial perfection, sun or moon, chance, fate, and divine power, while ritual games echo gods casting heavenly bodies.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "ball", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "balm", "name": "balm", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Balm denotes love, sympathy, virtue, royal anointing, healing, and rejuvenation, reflecting aromatic plants and resins credited with medicinal and restorative powers.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "balm", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bamboo", "name": "Bamboo", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Bamboo denotes resilient flexibility, constancy, friendship, longevity, humility, and sacred fire, especially as the cultivated person who bends under pressure yet rises again.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "bamboo", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "banana", "name": "banana", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Banana denotes wisdom and may serve as a personal birth-tree or life-tree, while some Oceanic traditions regard its fruit as sheltering ancestral souls.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "banana", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "banner", "name": "Banner", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The banner denotes conquest, honor, collective allegiance, and victory over darkness or death, serving as military rallying standard, religious proclamation, and ray of manifestation.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "banner", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "baptism", "name": "baptism", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Baptism denotes purification, initiation, protection, and spiritual death-and-rebirth, often joining water with name-giving and acceptance into a sacred or communal identity.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "baptism", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bar", "name": "Bar", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "A heraldic bar denotes cohesion, moral strength, and defense against evil, while Scandinavian lore separately names Bar as a sea-woman who gathers drowned souls.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "caveats": [ "homonym" ], "registry_id": "bar", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "barber", "name": "barber", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The barber is a folk-practice figure descended from ritual hair-cutters and barber-surgeons, associated with sacrifice, medicine, bloodletting, tooth-pulling, news, and talkativeness.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "barber", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "barley", "name": "barley", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Barley denotes fertility, resurrection, spring renewal, and sacrificial kingship, with sprouting grain embodying Osiris’s restored life and the agricultural life-cycle.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "barley", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "barrenness", "name": "Barrenness", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Barrenness is a feared reproductive condition attributed to witchcraft or misplaced houses and addressed through charms, blood, bathing, ingestion, or sacrifice.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "barrenness", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-basement", "name": "Basement/ Cellar", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The cellar denotes the concealed lowest room, storing what sustains the life above and giving the house a womblike underworld of secrets and buried ages.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "basement", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "basement", "title": "Basement/ Cellar", "world": "Human World", "sub": "House and Home", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "basil", "name": "basil", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Basil is an ambivalent protective herb associated with royalty, funerals, aphrodisiac power, antidotes, and sacred use, yet also with poverty, poison, scorpions, and evil.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "basil", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-basket", "name": "Basket", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The basket denotes woven containment and harvest fertility, cradling the infant god or hero and gathering the scattered limbs of the dismembered one.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "basket", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "basket", "title": "Basket", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Tools and Other Objects", "sense_count": 4, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "g1_krampus", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "He carries bundles of birch branches (Ruten) for switching naughty children and often totes a woven basket or washtub strapped to his back for hauling away the very worst offenders." } ] }, { "slug": "bat", "name": "Bat", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The bat denotes twilight magic, darkness, obscured understanding, hybridity, and witchcraft, but traditions also assign it rain, insight, happiness, longevity, wisdom, or androgynous balance.", "attestations": 5, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "bat", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "bat", "title": "Bat", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Wild Animals", "sense_count": 8, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "bathing", "name": "Bathing", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Bathing denotes purification, restoration, and initiation through symbolic return to primordial water, from which the bather emerges renewed, reborn, innocent, or spiritually transformed.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "bathing", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "bath", "title": "Bath/ Bathing", "world": "Human World", "sub": "House and Home", "sense_count": 0, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ], "bundles": [ "Bath" ] }, "joined_by": "title_bundle" }, { "slug": "baton", "name": "Baton", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "A baton denotes authority, punishment, and pain in symbolic traditions, while Greek myth separately names Baton as Amphiaraus’s charioteer, swallowed into the earth beside him.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "caveats": [ "homonym" ], "registry_id": "baton", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-beach", "name": "Beach", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The beach denotes the shifting margin where sky, sea and land converge, and the narrow shore between waking consciousness and what the depths deposit.", "attestations": 1, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "domain": { "id": "beach", "title": "Beach", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Earth", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "domain_slug" }, { "slug": "bridger-bear", "name": "Bear", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The bear denotes massive ambivalent strength, at once violent and noble, revered as the fierce nursing mother and fixed in the heavens about the pole.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "bear", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "bear", "title": "Bear", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Wild Animals", "sense_count": 9, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "2_luduan", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Chinese mythology, the Luduan captivates with a lion's head, a rhino's horn, a dragon's body, bear paws, fish scales, and an ox's tail." }, { "id": "2_otso", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Otso is a spirit bear in Finnish folklore, appearing as a powerful and sacred creature." }, { "id": "g4_parandrus", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Parandrus is a beast of the medieval bestiaries, ox-sized with a stag's antlers and a bear's shaggy coat, which escapes hunters by taking on the colour of whatever it stands among." } ] }, { "slug": "beard", "name": "beard", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The beard denotes manhood, virility, strength, wisdom, sanctity, sovereignty, and age, while divine beards may represent solar rays or fertilizing rain.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "beard", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "beard", "title": "Beard", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 11, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "beast", "name": "Beast", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Beast denotes reasonless or degraded conduct; in beast-marriage tales it is a disfigured partner whose humanity is restored through fearless care.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "beast", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "beating", "name": "Beating", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Beating denotes grief, anguish, shame, wonder, or repentance, while ritual flagellation may instead seek fertility, rain, healing, or the exposure of thieves.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "beating", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "beauty-and-the-beast", "name": "Beauty and the Beast", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Beauty and the Beast denotes a worldwide beast-marriage pattern in which devoted love recognizes inward goodness and releases a transformed partner from monstrous appearance.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "beauty-and-the-beast", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "beaver", "name": "Beaver", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The beaver denotes industry, engineering, vigilance, peace, and ascetic chastity, while Indigenous stories also cast Beaver as spouse, companion, or reciprocal trickster.", "attestations": 6, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "beaver", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "creatures": [ { "id": "2_afanc", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "A Welsh water monster, the Afanc has a crocodile's body with beaver-like paws and a poisonous barbed tail." } ] }, { "slug": "bridger-bed", "name": "Bed/Bedroom", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The bed denotes rest and cohabitation, and equally the place of anguish, sickness and exposure, where one is closest to the private and dreaming self.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "bed", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "bed", "title": "Bed/Bedroom", "world": "Human World", "sub": "House and Home", "sense_count": 4, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "bee", "name": "Bee", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The bee denotes industry, communal order, purity, chastity, eloquence, soul, immortality, and rebirth, serving traditions as divine messenger, royal emblem, or otherworldly wisdom-bearer.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "bee", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "beech", "name": "beech", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Beech denotes prosperity, literature, music, and divination, reflecting rune-inscribed wood and sacred oracular trees associated with Zeus, while its bark was considered protective.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "beech", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "beehive", "name": "Beehive", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The beehive denotes abundance, organized community, industrious activity, eloquence, and womb-like containment, while its tomb-like Greek form suggests immortality.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "beehive", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "beer", "name": "beer", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Beer denotes common, masculine sociability and divine or everlasting drink, while Mesopotamian religion chiefly associates it with alcohol, feasting, and libation.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "beer", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "denotation_neighbours": [ { "slug": "alcohol", "evidence": "Beer denotes common, masculine sociability and divine or everlasting drink, while Mesopotamian religion chiefly associates it with alcohol, feasting, and libation." } ] }, { "slug": "bees", "name": "Bees", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Bees are associated with life emerging from death through the old belief that swarms arose in cattle carcasses, turning bodily remains into honeyed abundance.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "bees", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "beetle", "name": "Beetle", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Beetle denotes persistence and reversal of weakness against strength; as the scarab it chiefly represents solar creation, renewal, virility, and immortality.", "attestations": 5, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "beetle", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bell", "name": "Bell", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Bell signifies consecration, summons, warning, protection, and harmony between heaven and earth; a Manx source separately uses Bell as a mermaid-name.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "caveats": [ "homonym" ], "registry_id": "bell", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "bell", "title": "Bell", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Sound", "sense_count": 16, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "belly", "name": "Belly", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The belly denotes appetite and materiality in Western symbolism but life’s center in Asian traditions; a monster’s belly becomes an underworld womb of initiatory transformation.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "belly", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "belt", "name": "Belt", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The belt denotes power, office, dedication, virtue, victory, and fertility, binding its wearer to status while concentrating or increasing strength.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "belt", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "beowulf", "name": "Beowulf", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Beowulf is the Geatish hero of an Old English epic, symbolically read as a solar champion overcoming Grendel’s darkness and a winter-dragon.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "beowulf", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "betony", "name": "betony", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Betony denotes surprise, healing, and magical protection, with herbal lore using it against disease, witchcraft, snakes, and household danger.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "betony", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-bicycle", "name": "Bicycle", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The bicycle denotes self-propelled progression under the individual ego rather than the collective, carrying speed, drive and erotic energy, and never moving in reverse.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "bicycle", "title": "Bicycle", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Movement and Expression", "sense_count": 3, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "biddy-mannion", "name": "Biddy Mannion", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Biddy Mannion is a named fairy-midwife figure, belonging to tales where human midwives are summoned to assist difficult births in Fairyland.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "biddy-mannion", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "birch", "name": "birch", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Birch denotes fertility, light, purification, cosmic ascent, and protection from witchcraft or misfortune, while its wood and sap support extensive folk medicine.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "birch", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-bird", "name": "Bird", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The bird denotes the soul and its flight between worlds, carrying aspiration, prophecy and divine essence, and moving freely where the earthbound cannot follow.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "bird", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "bird", "title": "Bird", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Birds", "sense_count": 40, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "1_achiyalabopa", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From Pueblo folklore, this bird is covered in arrow-like feathers." }, { "id": "1_boobrie", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Originating in Scottish folklore, Boobrie is a gigantic water bird." }, { "id": "1_hō-ō", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Japanese mythology, this phoenix-like bird symbolizes the union of yin and yang." }, { "id": "1_kikiyaon", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From African folklore, this bird-like creature has razor-sharp talons and emits a cry that can drive people insane." }, { "id": "1_lightning_bird", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Lightning Bird, a mystical creature from South African folklore, is a majestic avian being of immense power and mystery." }, { "id": "1_phoenix", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In many cultures, this radiant bird bursts into flames only to be reborn from its ashes." }, { "id": "1_roc", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Found in Middle Eastern myths, this enormous bird can carry off elephants with its talons." }, { "id": "1_snallygaster", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Maryland folklore, this dragon-like bird is said to inhabit the Blue Ridge Mountains." }, { "id": "1_thunderbird", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Native American myths describe this powerful bird as capable of creating storms." }, { "id": "2_adar_llwch_gwin", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Welsh tales introduce Adar Llwch Gwin, large birds resembling griffins." }, { "id": "2_alicanto", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From Chilean tales, the Alicanto is a bird with glowing feathers that shine due to its diet of gold and silver." }, { "id": "2_alkonost", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From Russian mythology, Alkonost is a bird with the head of a woman." }, { "id": "2_anqa", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From Arabian mythology, Anqa is a large, mysterious bird shrouded in azure flames." }, { "id": "2_bennu", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Bennu, a mythical creature from ancient Egyptian lore, is a magnificent heron-like bird that embodies the concepts of creation, rebirth, and eternal cycles." }, { "id": "2_byangoma", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Bengali folklore, Byangoma are magical birds with human faces." }, { "id": "2_caladrius", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From Roman mythology, Caladrius is a white bird that lives in kings' houses." }, { "id": "2_chamrosh", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From Persian mythology, Chamrosh is a bird with the body of a dog." }, { "id": "2_chickcharney", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Originating in Bahamian folklore, Chickcharney is a bird-like creature with three-toed feet." }, { "id": "2_cikavac", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From Serbian folklore, Cikavac is a bird summoned through magical rituals." }, { "id": "2_feathered_serpent", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "This majestic creature is typically depicted as a serpent adorned with the vibrant, iridescent feathers of the quetzal bird." }, { "id": "2_fenghuang", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Chinese folklore, the Fenghuang is a multi-colored bird, often paired with the dragon." }, { "id": "2_gagana", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Russian folklore, Gagana is a giant bird with a metallic beak." }, { "id": "2_hábrók", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "It soars higher and faster than any bird, catching even the most elusive prey." }, { "id": "2_hercinia", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Described in medieval bestiaries, the Hercinia is a bird that illuminates the forest with glowing plumage." }, { "id": "2_huginn_and_muninn", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "These two birds are not mere animals but embodiments of cosmic principles: Huginn represents thought, while Muninn embodies memory." }, { "id": "2_huma", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Huma is a mythical bird from Persian mythology, characterized by its striking plumage and ability to never land on the ground." }, { "id": "2_ibong_adarna", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Ibong Adarna is a mythical bird from Philippine folklore, known for its colorful plumage and enchanting song that can heal or curse." }, { "id": "2_jujak", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Korean mythology, Jujak is the Vermilion Bird, often depicted as a beautiful, fiery bird." }, { "id": "2_minokawa", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "A gigantic bird from Philippine mythology, the Minokawa has feathers as sharp as swords and a beak made of steel." }, { "id": "2_nine-headed_bird", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Originating from Chinese mythology, the Nine-headed Bird is a multi-headed avian creature." }, { "id": "2_peng_/_kun", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Chinese mythology, the Peng is a gigantic bird that transforms from Kun, a giant fish." }, { "id": "2_poukai", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Poukai is a bird from Maori mythology, described as a gigantic bird of prey." }, { "id": "2_rain_bird", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Rain Bird, a creature from Native American folklore, is a magical bird believed to bring rain, often depicted with colorful feathers and a melodic song." }, { "id": "2_raróg", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Slavic mythology, the Raróg is depicted as a fiery bird or a bird of prey, embodying the destructive and the divine." }, { "id": "2_sarimanok", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Originating from Maranao art, the Sarimanok is a mythical bird of vibrant colors and elaborate decoration, symbolizing good fortune and prosperity." }, { "id": "2_shahbaz", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Persian mythology, the Shahbaz is a regal bird of prey, its feathers adorned in vibrant hues and its posture majestic." }, { "id": "2_simurgh", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Simurgh is a legendary bird from Persian mythology, depicted as a benevolent and wise entity with a sprawling wingspan." }, { "id": "2_tengu", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Originating from Japanese folklore, Tengu are supernatural creatures often depicted as bird-like humanoids or as large birds." }, { "id": "2_three-legged_bird", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Originating from East Asian mythology, the Three-legged Bird is often associated with the sun and depicted as a radiant and powerful creature." }, { "id": "2_turul", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Turul, a mythical bird of prey in Hungarian folklore, is depicted as a large hawk or falcon, often associated with the origins of the Hungarian people." }, { "id": "2_valravn", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "This unholy act imbues the raven with magical abilities and grants it a semi-human form, creating a being that exists in a liminal state between bird and man." }, { "id": "2_wolpertinger", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Originating from Bavarian folklore, the Wolpertinger is depicted as a mythical animal, combining features from various creatures like rabbits, deer, and birds." }, { "id": "2_zhar-ptitsa", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Zhar-Ptitsa, or Firebird, stems from Slavic folklore, appearing as a radiant bird engulfed in flames." }, { "id": "2_ziz", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From Jewish mythology, the Ziz is a gigantic bird, comparable to the behemoth and leviathan." }, { "id": "g1_garuda", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Garuda is a paramount divine bird figure of Hindu and Buddhist mythology, with roots in the Indian subcontinent and a continuing sacred and civic presence across South and Southeast Asia." }, { "id": "g2_sirin", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Russian folklore, the Sirin is a bird-woman whose ravishingly beautiful song lures travelers into forgetting the world and following her to their death, the dark counterpart to the blissful Alkonost in the classic paired bird-maiden motif." }, { "id": "g3_jataya", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In the Hindu epic Ramayana, Jataya is the gigantic, human-headed bird descended from Garuda who dies attempting to rescue Sita from the demon king Ravana." }, { "id": "g5_badb", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Her name is generally understood to mean something like \"battle-crow\" or \"scald-crow,\" and the crow or raven is her characteristic form: she is met on the battlefield as a bird, and her presence there marks the field as hers." }, { "id": "g5_tragopan", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Tragopan is a marvel-bird of classical natural history, first described by Pliny the Elder as a horned, purple-headed bird of Ethiopia larger than an eagle, known almost entirely through description rather than any recorded conduct." }, { "id": "g7_dinewan", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The emu king of the birds, who lost his wings to a bustard's trick and took a revenge that left the bustard laying only two eggs." }, { "id": "g7_hamsa", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The hamsa is usually rendered swan in English and is more precisely a gander — the sources give it as the cosmic gander, and the bird actually behind the word is a goose rather than the mute swan the translation tends to conjure." } ] }, { "slug": "bridger-black", "name": "Black", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Black denotes mourning, night and the swallowing abyss, yet also fertile silt and womb, so that its darkness both annihilates and generates.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "black", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "black", "title": "Black", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Color", "sense_count": 21, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "blackbird", "name": "Blackbird", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The blackbird denotes temptation, underworld danger, cunning, and ominous luck, particularly in Christian stories where its alluring song and dark plumage mask the devil.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "blackbird", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-blessing", "name": "Blessing", "register": "domain", "gloss": "A blessing is a handing on of sacred power, conveyed by hand, word or rite through elder, priest or king, and not bound by seniority.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "essay", "domain": { "id": "blessing", "title": "Blessing", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Rituals and Sacred Systems", "sense_count": 0, "furniture_count": 21, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "blindness", "name": "Blindness", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Blindness denotes ignorance, error, sin, deception, and failure to perceive the right path, while myths also make it punishment for forbidden divine sight.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "blindness", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "blood", "name": "blood", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Blood denotes life, soul, strength, kinship, sacrifice, atonement, fertility, and solar energy, while drinking or exchanging it transfers power, obligation, or identity.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "blood", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "blood", "title": "Blood", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 22, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "bloodstone", "name": "bloodstone", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Bloodstone denotes martial success, goodwill, and protection, with Roman and later lore crediting it with stopping bleeding, exposing plots, and strengthening courage.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "bloodstone", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "blue", "name": "BLUE", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Blue denotes sky, water, infinity, truth, wisdom, loyalty, peace, and spirituality, with traditions variously emphasizing heavenly divinity, feminine depth, contemplation, or cool withdrawal.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "blue", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "blue", "title": "Blue", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Color", "sense_count": 42, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "bluebeard", "name": "Bluebeard", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Bluebeard denotes the murderous forbidden-chamber husband of an international tale, variously traced to Breton history or interpreted as a corrupted blue-bearded solar deity.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "bluebeard", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "boar", "name": "Boar", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The boar denotes solar or lunar vitality, courage, fertility, warfare, lust, gluttony, and winter destruction, with sacred and hostile meanings varying sharply across traditions.", "attestations": 5, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "boar", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "creatures": [ { "id": "2_babi_ngepet", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "It amasses wealth by transforming into a boar and eating farm crops, transferring the value to its human form." }, { "id": "2_calydonian_boar", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Greek mythology, the Calydonian Boar is a monstrous, divine swine." }, { "id": "2_catoblepas", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Greek mythology, Catoblepas is a sluggish beast with a boar’s body and a heavy, downturned head." }, { "id": "2_monocerus", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Emerging from medieval European lore, the Monocerus is a wild and fierce beast resembling a horse, with an elephant’s feet and a boar’s tail." }, { "id": "g2_yale", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Yale is a beast of medieval heraldry and bestiary tradition, most often described as roughly horse- or antelope-sized, with the jaw and tusks of a boar, a goat-like beard, and the tail of an elephant." }, { "id": "g3_stheno", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "Descriptions of Stheno's appearance vary somewhat in emphasis but agree on the essentials: hair made of serpents, tusks like a boar's, hands of bronze, and golden wings that let the Gorgons fly." } ] }, { "slug": "boat", "name": "boat", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The boat denotes womb, throne, shelter, fertility, destiny, and passage, carrying gods, celestial bodies, travelers, or souls across life’s waters and into other realms.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "boat", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "boat", "title": "Boat", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Movement and Expression", "sense_count": 25, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "boats", "name": "Boats", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Boats are ritual and mythic transports shaped by river cultures, carrying Egyptian gods through celestial and underworld waters and Mesopotamian deities on sacred barges.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "boats", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-bone", "name": "Bone", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Bone denotes what endures when flesh decays, evidence of loss and of something that survives it, reassembled in shamanic rebirth and venerated as relic.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "bone", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "bone", "title": "Bone", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 5, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "2_ahkiyyini", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "This skeletal figure, often described as a fusion of human and marine animal bones, embodies the harsh beauty and danger of the Arctic environment." }, { "id": "2_baykok", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Baykok's appearance is that of a gaunt, emaciated figure with skin stretched tightly over its bones, giving it a skeletal appearance." } ] }, { "slug": "bones", "name": "Bones", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Bones denote both mortal remains and an indestructible essence capable of resurrection, so their destruction may symbolically prevent renewed life.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "bones", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bonfire", "name": "Bonfire", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The bonfire denotes solar strengthening, light’s victory, fertility, death, and resurrection, especially through communal or sacrificial fires at seasonal turning points.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "bonfire", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "book", "name": "Book", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The book denotes wisdom, revelation, law, destiny, scripture, and the ordered universe, while closed or magical books conceal divine mysteries, occult knowledge, or creative power.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "book", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "borage", "name": "borage", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Borage denotes bluntness, talent, and rough character, while its blue-flowered herb also belongs to folk medicine and cooling flavored drinks.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "borage", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bo-tree", "name": "Bo Tree", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The Bo tree denotes contemplation, perfection, and enlightenment as the sacred fig beneath which Gautama Buddha attained awakening.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "bo-tree", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bottle", "name": "Bottle", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The bottle denotes womb-like containment, enclosure, salvation, rain, and refreshment, but its associations can also extend to intemperance, sexuality, or swollen form.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "bottle", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "boundary", "name": "Boundary", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "A boundary denotes a threshold between realms, marking protected, dangerous, or sacred transitions such as life and death, waking and dream, or profane and holy.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "boundary", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-bow-and-arrow", "name": "Bow and Arrow", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The bow and arrow denotes focused penetration by desire, insight or death, joining feminine bow to phallic arrow and refining aggression into aim and wisdom.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "bow-and-arrow", "title": "Bow and Arrow", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Tools and Other Objects", "sense_count": 4, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "bowels", "name": "Bowels", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Bowels denote compassion, affection, emotion, offspring, and hidden circulation, with intestines also associated with labyrinths, serpents, sacrifice, aphrodisiacs, and divination.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "bowels", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bowl", "name": "Bowl", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The bowl denotes receptive femininity, fertility, containment, sacrifice, poverty, or abundance, while the almsbowl specifically expresses renunciation and surrender of ego.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "bowl", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "box", "name": "box", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The box denotes containment and hidden contents—womb, unconscious, treasure, or danger—while evergreen boxwood adds longevity and funerary remembrance.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "box", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bracken", "name": "bracken", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Bracken denotes concealed, persistent growth and folkloric protection, its cut stem linked with Christic, thunderous, or ominous markings.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "bracken", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-brain", "name": "Brain", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The brain denotes reason and the opaque container of selfhood, the black box one is compelled to open, imagined as map, centre or network.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "brain", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "brain", "title": "Brain", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "bread", "name": "Bread", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Bread denotes sustaining life and communal union, while ritual traditions associate its breaking or offering with sacrifice, the dead, communion, and fairy protection.", "attestations": 5, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "bread", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-breast", "name": "Breast", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The breast denotes the source and its provision, the infant's first world, holding feminine nourishment and, in the solar aureola, a masculine creative power.", "attestations": 1, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "domain": { "id": "breast", "title": "Breast", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "domain_slug", "creatures": [ { "id": "g6_nakinneito", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Her most particular recorded trait is an endowment the tellers evidently enjoyed — breasts so voluptuous she can throw them over her shoulder — and she is most often seen out on the water, combing her long curly hair." } ] }, { "slug": "breastplate", "name": "Breastplate", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The breastplate denotes protection and preservation, appearing with Athena and as the Hebrew priestly vestment’s sacred cosmic center.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "breastplate", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-breath", "name": "Breath", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Breath denotes life and soul, the spirit animating clay and world alike, and at once the most vital and most insubstantial of possessions.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "breath", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "breath", "title": "Breath", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Cosmos", "sense_count": 6, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "g6_iya", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Iya is a huge, formless monster of Lakota tradition, known by its fetid breath and its appetite for human flesh." } ] }, { "slug": "bride", "name": "bride", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The bride denotes fertility and transformative union; folklore surrounds her liminal betrothal with omens, while tales contrast true, hidden, and false brides.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "bride", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-bridge", "name": "Bridge", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The bridge denotes a made crossing over a divide of water, chasm or estrangement, built against the void and perilous to those unworthy of passage.", "attestations": 1, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "domain": { "id": "bridge", "title": "Bridge", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Buildings and Monuments", "sense_count": 0, "furniture_count": 32, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "domain_slug" }, { "slug": "bridle", "name": "Bridle", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The bridle denotes restraint and self-command, especially temperance and curbed speech, while also sharing the horse’s fertility associations.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "bridle", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-broom", "name": "Broom", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The broom denotes the sweeping that orders a house and clears illusion, humble in the hand yet uncanny enough to carry a witch aloft.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "broom", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "broom", "title": "Broom", "world": "Human World", "sub": "House and Home", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 38, "sources": [ "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "2_baba_yaga", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "As she travels, she sweeps away all traces of her passage with a broom made of silver birch." } ] }, { "slug": "brown", "name": "BROWN", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Brown denotes earthiness, simplicity, modesty, and reliability, but also autumnal melancholy, poverty, penitence, barrenness, and emotional dullness.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "brown", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "brown", "title": "Brown", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Color", "sense_count": 6, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "brisinga-men", "name": "Brísinga Men", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Brísinga Men is Freyja’s famed necklace or torque, associated with disguise, anger, theft, and contested struggles involving Loki and Heimdall.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ] }, { "slug": "bridger-bubble", "name": "Bubble", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The bubble denotes luminous transient perfection, a sphere of enchantment and nascent spiritual awareness whose fragility guarantees it will burst into mist.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "bubble", "title": "Bubble", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Water", "sense_count": 4, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "buckle", "name": "Buckle", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The buckle denotes protection, steadiness, and honorable authority; Egyptian tradition makes Isis’s girdle-buckle a sign of her blood, strength, and favor.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "buckle", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "budha", "name": "BUDHA", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Budha is the Hindu personification of Mercury, a wise lunar son of Soma and Tara, husband of Ila and father of Pururavas.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "budha", "census": { "class": "deity", "status": "candidate", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-bull", "name": "Bull", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The bull denotes fecundating potency and pent strength, sacred to storm and sky gods, and harnessed as the ox to the plough that founded settlement.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "bull", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "bull", "title": "Bull", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Wild Animals", "sense_count": 9, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "2_aatxe", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Basque legends tell of Aatxe, a red bull that can assume human form." }, { "id": "2_camahueto", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Chilote folklore, Camahueto is a bull-like creature with a single, spiraling horn." }, { "id": "2_khalkotauroi", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Originating from Greek mythology, the Khalkotauroi are bronze bulls with the ability to breathe fire, created by Hephaestus." }, { "id": "2_quinotaur", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Quinotaur, a creature from Frankish mythology, is a mythical sea creature, described as a bull with five horns." }, { "id": "g2_bonnacon", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In medieval bestiary tradition, the Bonnacon is a bull-like beast with inward-curling horns that defends itself from pursuers by expelling a trail of scalding, corrosive dung." }, { "id": "g5_itherther", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Itherther is a primordial bull of Kabyle (Berber) cosmogony, who together with the cow Thamuatz and their calf is remembered as among the first beings to exist on earth." }, { "id": "g6_tarbh_uisge", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The tarbh uisge is the Scottish water bull — black, earless, and velvet-coated, a nocturnal loch-dweller whose short-eared calves among mortal herds were killed for the luck of it." } ] }, { "slug": "burial", "name": "burial", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Burial is mortuary practice honoring and containing the dead; sources connect it with grief, ghost control, return to earth, renewal, and initiation.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "burial", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "burial", "title": "Burial", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Sickness and Death", "sense_count": 9, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "buttercup", "name": "buttercup", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Buttercup denotes martial heat, mockery, spite, and madness, while folk practices link it with richer milk, healing charms, and children’s butter tests.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "buttercup", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "butterfly", "name": "Butterfly", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The butterfly denotes the soul’s transformation, death, and rebirth; traditions also associate it with immortality, joy, fickleness, conjugal happiness, and wandering spirits.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "butterfly", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "butterfly", "title": "Butterfly /Moth", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Arachnids and Insects", "sense_count": 10, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "buzzard", "name": "buzzard", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Buzzard folklore treats the scavenger as contemptible yet augural: feathers prevent rheumatism, sightings grant wishes or foretell visitors, while its shadow threatens death.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "buzzard", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "cactus", "name": "cactus", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Cactus denotes desert endurance, warmth, grandeur, and ardent love; traditions also connect it with ceremonial intoxication, Pueblo religion, pregnancy taboos, and spiritual desolation.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cactus", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "cake", "name": "cake", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Cake denotes feasting and fertility, while sacrificial or cross-marked forms embody divine nourishment, substitute offerings, and the moon’s cycle.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cake", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "cakes", "name": "Cakes", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Cakes are sacrificial buns whose circular, cross-divided form represents the moon and its four quarters, with Egyptian sources also attesting them.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cakes", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "calendar", "name": "calendar", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The calendar denotes patterned cosmic time, reckoned through lunar, solar, seasonal, stellar, river, plant, and animal cycles; Celtic accounts emphasize disputed cross-quarter divisions.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "calendar", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "calendar", "title": "Calendar", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Tools and Other Objects", "sense_count": 7, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "camel", "name": "Camel", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The camel denotes temperance, endurance, humility, obedience, and royal dignity; Iranian imagery links it to the dragon-serpent, while Roman coins personify Arabia.", "attestations": 5, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "camel", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "creatures": [ { "id": "2_allocamelus", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Originating in medieval bestiaries, Allocamelus is a hybrid of a camel and an ass." }, { "id": "g2_aisha_qandisha", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Moroccan and Amazigh (Berber) folklore, Aisha Qandisha is a shapeshifting jinniya who appears as a beautiful woman but conceals goat or camel hooves beneath her skirts, luring and dominating the men she encounters." } ] }, { "slug": "camomile", "name": "camomile", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Camomile denotes resilience and love under adversity; folk medicine treats its bitter flowers as sacred, aphrodisiac, calming, digestive, and protective against diverse ailments.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "camomile", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "camphor", "name": "Camphor", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Camphor denotes chastity and sensory renunciation, its residue-free burning suggesting self-extinction; folklore uses its pungency against evil, illness, pain, and insects.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "camphor", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "cancer", "name": "Cancer", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Cancer primarily denotes the lunar, watery zodiacal gate through which souls enter embodiment; the Kalevala instead names cancer among Lowyatar’s disease offspring.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cancer", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "candlemas", "name": "Candlemas", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Candlemas is the February 2 Christian feast of Christ’s Presentation or Mary’s Purification, layered with candle blessings, Imbolc, field-purification rites, and seasonal renewal.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "candlemas", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "cannibalism", "name": "Cannibalism", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Cannibalism is the eating of human flesh or blood; sources distinguish imagined or social practice from ritual absorption of vitality or divinity, especially Mesoamerica.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cannibalism", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "canoe", "name": "Canoe", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The canoe is a dugout watercraft in Mesoamerican travel and trade; symbolically it is a lunar crescent and, in Māori tradition, the ancestral mother.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "canoe", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "canopic-jars", "name": "Canopic Jars", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Canopic jars are Egyptian funerary vessels associated with the four protective gods of the dead, whose human, baboon, jackal, and hawk heads guard the tomb.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "canopic-jars", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "canopy", "name": "Canopy", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The canopy denotes sovereignty, protection, and the celestial realm; Buddhist and Hindu forms distinguish enlightenment, pure mind, priestly earth, and royal heaven.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "canopy", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "cap", "name": "Cap", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The cap denotes status, freedom, and power, though particular forms signify folly, concealment, the heavens, shamanic authority, or the Dioscuri’s divided cosmic egg.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cap", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "capricorn", "name": "Capricorn", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Capricorn is the zodiacal sea-goat, joining land and water, height and depth; it marks winter’s turning, the gods’ gate, and the sun’s ascent.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "capricorn", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "carnation", "name": "carnation", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Carnation symbolism varies by color: red conveys admiration and passionate marriage, pink motherhood, white pure love, yellow rejection; other sources add fascination and caprice.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "carnation", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "carnival", "name": "Carnival", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Carnival is a boisterous pre-Lenten festival of masquerade and license, symbolically suspending social order and returning to chaos so seasonal fertility can regenerate.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "carnival", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "carp", "name": "Carp", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The carp denotes perseverance, courage, longevity, and abundance; Chinese tradition links its upstream leap with scholarly ascent, while paired carp signify lovers.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "carp", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-carpet", "name": "Carpet", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The carpet denotes a woven paradise garden, its bordered pattern an image of the infinite, laid for honour underfoot and, in story, capable of flight.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "carpet", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "carpet", "title": "Carpet", "world": "Human World", "sub": "House and Home", "sense_count": 3, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "cask", "name": "Cask", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The cask denotes receptive enclosure and the character imparted by its contents; a bottomless cask represents futile, endless labor.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cask", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "cassia", "name": "cassia", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Cassia denotes immortality, good fortune, and ascent through the Chinese paradise-tree; elsewhere it is a sacred anointing spice and ominous tricolor plant.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cassia", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "castanets", "name": "Castanets", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Castanets are rhythmic clappers used in ecstatic dances; Taoism makes them contending cosmic powers and an immortal’s emblem, while Athena arms Heracles with them.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "castanets", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "caste", "name": "Caste", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Caste denotes a fourfold social and cosmic order, mapping priest, warrior, merchant-farmer, and servant classes onto directions, seasons, elements, colors, and paired opposites.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "caste", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "castle", "name": "Castle", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The castle denotes fortified safety, wealth, and sovereignty, while its guarded enclosure stages spiritual testing, hidden knowledge, imprisoned souls, and passage toward transcendence.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "castle", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "castle", "title": "Castle", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Buildings and Monuments", "sense_count": 10, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "castration", "name": "Castration", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Castration denotes sacrificed fertility: myths parallel it with harvested grain and eclipsed sun, while severed divine sexuality produces new powers, life, or cosmic change.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "castration", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-cat", "name": "Cat", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The cat denotes self-possessed ambiguity, free, playful and oracular or cunning, treacherous and idle, moving easily through darkness and the liminal hours.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "cat", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "cat", "title": "Cat", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Wild Animals", "sense_count": 26, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "caterpillar", "name": "caterpillar", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The caterpillar denotes an unfinished or earthbound soul poised for resurrection, yet folklore also casts it as destructive appetite, parasitism, devilish tears, or troubling spirits.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "caterpillar", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "cattle", "name": "cattle", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Cattle denote pastoral wealth, fertility, and sacred dependence; solar bulls embody virility and kingship, lunar cows nurture, and folklore grants herds familial sympathy and magic.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cattle", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "cauac-monster", "name": "Cauac Monster", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The Cauac Monster is a Maya zoomorphic mountain image, named for its stony storm-sign markings and associated with caves, maize origins, rulership, and sacred ascent.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cauac-monster", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "caul", "name": "caul", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The caul is a birth membrane or sacrificial diaphragm; folklore preserves it as a luck charm granting drowning protection, clairvoyance, eloquence, and defense from witchcraft.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "caul", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "cave", "name": "Cave", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The cave denotes Earth’s womb, the hidden heart and world-center where divine and human meet; it enables burial, initiation, rebirth, and passage to otherworlds.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "cave", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "cave", "title": "Cave", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Earth", "sense_count": 12, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "denotation_neighbours": [ { "slug": "womb", "evidence": "The cave denotes Earth’s womb, the hidden heart and world-center where divine and human meet; it enables burial, initiation, rebirth, and passage to otherworlds." } ] }, { "slug": "cedar", "name": "Cedar", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Cedar denotes strength, nobility, majesty, and incorruptibility; traditions make it Lebanon’s emblem, temple wood, Christ figure, Sumerian life-tree, and enduring witness to acquired fire.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cedar", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "censer", "name": "Censer", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The censer denotes veneration and ascending prayer, carrying incense as sacrifice; sources also associate it with priestly service, flattery, and the Lady of the Lake.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "censer", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "ceres", "name": "Ceres", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Ceres is Rome’s mature grain and fertility goddess, identified with Demeter and Earth Mothers; her rites reenact Kore’s loss, underworld union, and renewed abundance.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "ceres", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-chain", "name": "Chain", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The chain denotes linkage in both senses: the bondage of fate and servitude, and the supporting ladder joining earth to heaven link by link.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "chain", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "chain", "title": "Chain", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Tools and Other Objects", "sense_count": 3, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "2_fenrir", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In an attempt to control the beast, they tried to bind him with various chains, but Fenrir broke free each time." }, { "id": "g1_azhi_dahaka", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "His defeat is one of the central myths of Iranian tradition: the hero-king Fereydun (Avestan Thraētaona) rises up against him, and rather than killing him outright, binds Zahhak in chains upon Mount Damavand, where in some tellings he is prophesied to break free at the end of the world and be slain only then by the hero Garshasp." }, { "id": "g1_krampus", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Krampus is typically depicted as a large, hairy, demonic figure with the cloven hooves and curling horns of a goat, a long pointed tongue lolling from his mouth, and a chain-draped body hung with bells." }, { "id": "g5_kludde", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The figure takes a range of animal disguises, most often a black dog or horse but also cat, bat, frog, or wolf, and its approach is signalled by rattling chains and a flickering blue flame, a detail that links it to the wider family of will-o'-the-wisp and bogey lights reported on lonely roads at night." }, { "id": "g6_fachan", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "An Irish manuscript account of the same misshapen kind arms it terribly, with a thick iron flail-club in its skinny hand carrying twenty chains, and fifty apples on every chain, every one of them capable of harm." } ] }, { "slug": "chakora", "name": "Chakora", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Chakora is a fabulous Hindu red partridge nourished by moonbeams; poetry uses its nocturnal longing for the devoted soul or refined connoisseur.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "chakora", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-chakras", "name": "Chakras", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The chakras are the centres where vital force gathers along the spine, seven in the major reckoning, opened upward as coiled serpent energy awakens consciousness.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "chakras", "title": "Chakras", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Soul and Psyche", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "chalcedony", "name": "Chalcedony", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Chalcedony denotes contentment, righteousness, and secret prayer; as an amulet it banishes sadness and phantoms, wins favor and victory, guards travelers, and aids nursing.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "chalcedony", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "chalice", "name": "Chalice", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The chalice denotes sacred containment, inexhaustible life, wisdom, fertility, and the heart; Christian tradition centers Christ’s blood, suffering, Eucharist, redemption, and the Grail.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "chalice", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "chameleon", "name": "Chameleon", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The chameleon denotes adaptability, timidity, airy sustenance, and changeable love; Christianity casts its shifting guise as deception, while African traditions make it a rain-bringer.", "attestations": 6, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "caveats": [ "multi-referent" ], "registry_id": "chameleon", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "charms", "name": "Charms", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Charms are magical words, chants, or objects used to heal, avert danger, secure luck or success, summon spirits, empower things, or harm enemies.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "charms", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "chasuble", "name": "Chasuble", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The chasuble is a Christian vestment signifying charity and protective chastity; its form recalls Christ’s seamless royal robe, cross-bearing arms, scourging, and Passion.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "chasuble", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "chequers", "name": "Chequers", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Chequers denote manifest duality—light and dark, day and night—and the disciplined effort to check irrational impulse through reason.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "chequers", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "cherry", "name": "Cherry", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Cherry symbolism spans merriment, virginity, fertility, and paradise; its blossom signifies spring, youth, beauty, hope, prosperity, and life’s naked, brief passage.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cherry", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "chess", "name": "Chess", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Chess denotes life as a contest of opposites, balancing free choice with consequence and fate; courtly and fairy traditions make it courtship or perilous wager.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "chess", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "child", "name": "child", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The child denotes innocence, natural beginnings, and unrealized possibility, but also ignorance; spiritually it represents the self reborn toward perfection and seasonally the year’s renewal.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "child", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "chocolate", "name": "chocolate", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Chocolate is a cacao preparation chiefly associated here with aphrodisiac potency rather than an independent symbolic meaning.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "chocolate", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "chrysalis", "name": "Chrysalis", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The chrysalis denotes metamorphosis, resurrection, and the soul veiled in matter, emphasizing passive, hidden development under nature’s law before emergence.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], 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null } }, { "slug": "cicada", "name": "Cicada", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The cicada denotes song, cyclic light, resurrection, and immortality; Chinese tradition promises youth and happiness, while Tithonus warns that endless life may still age.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cicada", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "cinderella", "name": "Cinderella", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Cinderella is the widespread ash-girl folktale of abuse, disguise, supernatural aid, recognition, and marriage, symbolically read as hidden fire, rebirth, dawn, or soul.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cinderella", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "cinnamon", "name": "Cinnamon", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Cinnamon is an ancient aromatic bark associated with sacred anointing, perfume, trade, sensual beds, and the beloved’s fragrance.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cinnamon", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "circumambulation", "name": "Circumambulation", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Circumambulation is ritual circling that establishes sacred center and boundary, imitates cosmic motion, and serves pilgrimage, reverence, luck, protection, fertility, and healing.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "circumambulation", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "circumcision", "name": "Circumcision", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Circumcision denotes initiation, covenant, purity, dedication, and group membership, while an older interpretation treats it as a reduced fertility sacrifice.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "circumcision", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "citron", "name": "Citron", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The citron denotes the human heart, Buddha’s hand, love, and bridal ornament; its fragrance and seeds also carry insect-repelling and antidotal associations.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "citron", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-city", "name": "City", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The city denotes civilisation walled off from wilderness, a maternal place of belonging and pilgrimage whose sacred centre makes it readable as a mandala.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "city", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "city", "title": "City", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Buildings and Monuments", "sense_count": 4, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "bridger-oyster", "name": "Clam/ Oyster", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The clam denotes the closed shell of the sea's first life, receptive and shy, prised open for the world's treasure and the pearl within.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "oyster", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "oyster", "title": "Clam/ Oyster", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Water Creatures", "sense_count": 7, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "g7_chac", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Classic art he is recognisable by catfish-like whiskers, a snout that is short and lizard-like, and scaled skin, along with a conspicuous tied hank of hair and a spiny-oyster ear ornament; the Postclassic codices render him markedly more human." } ] }, { "slug": "bridger-claw", "name": "Claw/ Nail", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The claw denotes the fierce efficiency of tearing and clutching, kept as talisman, while nails hold soul-substance and grow uncannily on after death.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "claw", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "claw", "title": "Claw/ Nail", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "cloak", "name": "Cloak", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The cloak denotes protection, dignity, and rank, but also concealment, withdrawal, disguise, villainy, invisibility, mourning, and the masked outer personality.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cloak", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "denotation_neighbours": [ { "slug": "invisibility", "evidence": "The cloak denotes protection, dignity, and rank, but also concealment, withdrawal, disguise, villainy, invisibility, mourning, and the masked outer personality." } ] }, { "slug": "bridger-cloister", "name": "Cloister", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The cloister denotes enclosure chosen for contemplation, circling a hidden garden, and equally the defensive narrowing of a life that fears the world's demands.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "cloister", "title": "Cloister", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Buildings and Monuments", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "cloth", "name": "cloth", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Cloth denotes immortality, substituted sacrifice, relics, and the sky; Mesoamerican sources emphasize its intrinsic value, ritual weaving, tribute, and divine patronage.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cloth", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "cloud", "name": "Cloud", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Cloud denotes divine presence and concealment, rain, fertility, compassion, and prosperity; narratives may personify it as a mother or oppose it as a water-stealing storm.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "cloud", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "cloud", "title": "Cloud", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Air — Wind and Weather", "sense_count": 14, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "g3_nephele", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Greek mythology, Nephele is the cloud-named wife of King Athamas and mother of Phrixus and Helle, who saves her children from sacrifice by sending them across the sea on a ram with a golden fleece." } ] }, { "slug": "clover", "name": "Clover", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Clover denotes fertility, abundance, spring, and triadic life; shamrock signifies Ireland and Trinity, while extra leaves confer luck, sight, or protection.", "attestations": 5, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "clover", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "clown", "name": "Clown", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The clown denotes the king’s inversion: material struggle, folly, and the ruler’s substitute in symbolic sacrifice.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "clown", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "club", "name": "Club", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The club denotes brute force, punishment, strength, courage, and generative power; heroic and storm gods wield it, while Christianity links it with betrayal and martyrdom.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "club", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "coal", "name": "Coal", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Coal denotes latent solar fire, purification, hearth warmth, anger, strife, and vengeance; folklore carries it for luck, invisibility, or protection from snakes and evil.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "coal", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "cobra", "name": "Cobra", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The cobra is treated simply as a serpent; the cited material provides no distinct cobra symbolism, while its second passage concerns the cock.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "cobra", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "cobra", "title": "Cobra", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Water Creatures", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "cock", "name": "Cock", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The cock denotes dawn, solar vigilance, courage, fertility, and resurrection, but black or chthonic forms signify lust, evil, death, or underworld powers.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cock", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "cockroach", "name": "Cockroach", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Cockroach folklore associates the nocturnal insect with filth, heat, abandonment omens, cautionary tales, folk remedies, and magical tests for witches.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "cockroach", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "cockroach", "title": "Cockroach", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Arachnids and Insects", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "cocoon", "name": "Cocoon", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The cocoon denotes protected, latent power—the soul’s enclosure and birthplace before its butterfly transformation—alongside potential wind and magic.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cocoon", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-coffin", "name": "Coffin", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The coffin denotes final containment and a vessel of passage at once, protecting dead from living and preserving what may still be revived.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "coffin", "title": "Coffin", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Sickness and Death", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "collar", "name": "Collar", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The collar denotes office and dignity but also ownership and servitude; Egyptian forms confer protection, strength, funerary aid, and the power of Isis or Horus.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "collar", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-color", "name": "Color", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Colour denotes expression and differentiation, carrying feeling, rank and season, evolved for survival and taken by alchemy as the sign that transformation is under way.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "color", "title": "Color", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Color", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "colors", "name": "Colors", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Colors denote differentiated light and encode character, omens, directions, deities, and ritual order, though directional mappings vary across Pueblo and Mesoamerican traditions.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "colors", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "coltsfoot", "name": "Coltsfoot", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Coltsfoot denotes maternal care and hidden water; chiefly, however, it is a medicinal herb smoked or poulticed for coughs, asthma, toothache, and other ailments.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "coltsfoot", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "comb", "name": "comb", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The comb denotes fertility, rain, sunlight, music, vanity, and entanglement; mermaid and siren lore makes hair-combing an alluring danger or magical taboo.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "comb", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "comb", "title": "Comb", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Tools and Other Objects", "sense_count": 10, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "comet", "name": "Comet", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The comet usually denotes war, plague, famine, fallen rulers, or apocalypse, but a white comet may promise peace or herald divinity and solar messages.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "comet", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "comet", "title": "Comet", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Cosmos", "sense_count": 4, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "bridger-compass", "name": "Compass", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The compass denotes the imposing of measure and form, held by the god who laid out the cosmos, and magnetically aligning to an unseen pole.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "compass", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "compass", "title": "Compass", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Tools and Other Objects", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "conch", "name": "Conch", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The conch denotes ritual summons, water, solar or lunar spirals, sacred speech, learning, and victory; traditions also associate it with royalty and prosperous voyages.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "conch", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "condor", "name": "Condor", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The condor denotes eternity in one literary source; a Tehuelche tale instead casts it as a child-stealing adversary defeated and made bald.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "condor", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "cone", "name": "Cone", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "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.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cone", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "congo", "name": "Congo", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Congo here names African-derived New World cult groups, spirits, dances, and cultural retentions; the other passage uses it geographically in Bunzi’s Woyo attribution.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "congo", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "convolvulus", "name": "Convolvulus", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Convolvulus denotes clinging humility, insinuation, uncertainty, despondency, and night; Chinese tradition instead emphasizes love, marriage, dependence, dawn, and transience.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "convolvulus", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "copper", "name": "Copper", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Copper denotes common money, Venusian love, autumnal fruition, and decay; folklore uses it for healing, corpse rites, protection, or a uniquely fatal weapon.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "copper", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "coral", "name": "Coral", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Coral denotes the sea-tree, lunar fertility, blood, and Medusa’s petrified growth; as an amulet it promises protection, health, longevity, fruitfulness, and luck.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "coral", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "cord", "name": "Cord", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The cord denotes life’s continuity, soul-body and heaven-earth connection, reason, and vocation, while ambivalently binding destiny or offering guidance, security, and freedom.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cord", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "corn", "name": "Corn", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Corn denotes sustenance, fertility, abundance, solar growth, and life from death; harvest, funerary, mystery, and Eucharistic rites associate it with sacrifice and resurrection.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ] }, { "slug": "cornel", "name": "cornel", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Cornel is dogwood associated with divination, Rome’s founded site, Tiresias’s guiding staff, seasonal reckoning, and spear wood; one cited passage instead concerns dolls.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cornel", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "cornucopia", "name": "Cornucopia", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The cornucopia denotes inexhaustible abundance and fertility, uniting a masculine horn with a receptive interior and serving vegetation, fate, mother, and wealth deities.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cornucopia", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "corona-borealis", "name": "Corona Borealis", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Corona Borealis is the Northern Crown constellation, associated with Ariadne’s wreath, a paradise for dead heroes, and Christ’s thorns; another citation concerns Corpus Christi.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "caveats": [ "homonym" ], "registry_id": "corona-borealis", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "cotton", "name": "cotton", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Cotton is a valued Mesoamerican fiber for clothing and tribute, while European funerary folklore specifies cotton gloves for mourners.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cotton", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-cow", "name": "Cow", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The cow denotes maternal provision, allied with nearly every mother goddess, arching as the star-bellied sky and bearing the crescent moon in her horns.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "cow", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "cow", "title": "Cow", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Wild Animals", "sense_count": 10, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "cowslip", "name": "Cowslip", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Cowslip denotes rustic grace, pensiveness, memory, and fairy presence; folklore uses the spring flower for love divination, while another cited passage concerns cowboy songs.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cowslip", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-coyote", "name": "Coyote", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Coyote is the Amerindian transformer and trickster, creator and destroyer at once, whose blundering pranks carry unforeseen consequence and whose imperfection explains an imperfect world.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "creature", "domain" ], "registry_id": "coyote", "census": { "class": "creature", "status": "canon", "canon_id": "g4_coyote" }, "canon_creature": "g4_coyote", "domain": { "id": "coyote", "title": "Coyote", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Wild Animals", "sense_count": 8, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "g4_coyote", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Coyote is the trickster and transformer of many Native American traditions, who shapes the world and brings gifts to people in the same motion by which he disgraces himself through appetite and vanity." } ] }, { "slug": "crab", "name": "Crab", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The crab denotes aggression, regression, crookedness, death, and regeneration; Buddhist and Inca traditions link it respectively with interlife sleep and the devouring waning moon.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "crab", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "crab", "title": "Crab", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Water Creatures", "sense_count": 10, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "bridger-crack", "name": "Crack", "register": "domain", "gloss": "A crack denotes the breach that lets light or spirit through, a liminal opening onto other worlds, and the flaw that makes a container fail.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "essay", "registry_id": "crack", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "crack", "title": "Crack", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Soul and Psyche", "sense_count": 0, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "cradle", "name": "Cradle", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The cradle denotes birth, rebirth, shelter, and life’s rocking course; as cosmic boat, body, or coffin it carries life across primordial waters and death.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "cradle", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "cradle", "title": "Cradle", "world": "Human World", "sub": "House and Home", "sense_count": 7, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "creation", "name": "Creation", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Creation denotes accounts of cosmic and social origins; Mesopotamian and Indigenous traditions vary in creators, processes, and scope, while the Kalevala personifies it genealogically.", "attestations": 5, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "creation", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "creatures": [ { "id": "2_behemoth", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "Behemoth, a colossal creature of Biblical lore, stands as a testament to the raw, untamed power of primordial creation." }, { "id": "2_ziz", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "This creature represents the incomprehensible scale of creation, its immense size and strength a testament to the boundless wonders and mysteries of the world." } ] }, { "slug": "cremation", "name": "Cremation", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Cremation is mortuary burning associated with purification, spiritual ascent, immortality, and status, but also with destroying dangerous power, freeing ghosts, and preventing revenants.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "cremation", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "cremation", "title": "Cremation", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Sickness and Death", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "crescent", "name": "crescent", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The crescent denotes the changing moon, growth, feminine receptivity, and the night barque; traditions add immortality, sovereignty, protection, and the moon god Sin.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "crescent", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "crescent", "title": "Crescent", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Cosmos", "sense_count": 7, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "cricket", "name": "Cricket", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The cricket denotes summer, courage, song, and the domestic hearth; folklore treats its chirp as luck, weather, death, or lover omen and medicine.", "attestations": 5, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cricket", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-cripple", "name": "Cripple", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The cripple denotes impeded movement read as both affliction and compensation, outcast and wounded healer, carrying the chthonic potency mythology grants its lamed smiths.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "cripple", "title": "Cripple", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Fundamentals of Work and Society", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 27, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "bridger-crocodile", "name": "Crocodile", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The crocodile denotes voracity lying still at the threshold of water and land, capable of sudden devouring, yet brooding its young with improbable care.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "crocodile", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "crocodile", "title": "Crocodile", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Water Creatures", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "2_cipactli", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Aztec cosmology, Cipactli is an amphibious, dragon-like creature with crocodile skin and fish fins." }, { "id": "2_shen", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "A serpentine crocodile from Chinese lore, the Shen has dragon's horns and a red mane, with scales that defy the norm." }, { "id": "g3_kurrea", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Kurrea is a giant crocodile-like monster of Australian Aboriginal Dreaming tradition that turned from hunting animals to hunting people until the warrior Toolalla exploited its fear of the bumble tree." } ] }, { "slug": "cromlech", "name": "Cromlech", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "A cromlech is a megalithic stone monument denoting the Great Mother, fertility, sacred center, solar worship, cyclic time, and healing passage through stone openings.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cromlech", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "crook", "name": "crook", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The crook denotes authority, guidance, mercy, faith, and divine or pastoral leadership; Mesopotamian art associates it particularly with Amurru and sometimes Ea.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "crook", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "cross", "name": "Cross", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The cross denotes cosmic center, life, integrated opposites, and protection; Christian traditions add suffering and salvation, while early Mesopotamian meanings remain uncertain or solar.", "attestations": 5, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cross", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-crossroads", "name": "Crossroads", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The crossroads denotes the potent meeting of ways, a way down to the dead, watched by its gods, where a traveller commits to one path.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "crossroads", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "crossroads", "title": "Crossroads", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Rituals and Sacred Systems", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "crow", "name": "Crow", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The crow denotes oracle, messenger, creator, or helpful guide, but also carrion, blackening, and misfortune; solar readings may reflect confusion with ravens or cocks.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "crow", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "crow", "title": "Crow/ Raven", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Birds", "sense_count": 18, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "g1_skinwalker", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "A skinwalker is understood to be a person, usually described as a witch or medicine person who has turned to evil, who has gained the ability to transform into, possess, or take on the appearance and abilities of an animal, most commonly a coyote, wolf, fox, owl, or crow." }, { "id": "g5_badb", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Badb is an Irish battle goddess who appears in crow form over battlefields, inciting warriors to frenzy and foretelling slaughter, closely associated with and sometimes merged into the Morrígan." } ] }, { "slug": "crown", "name": "Crown", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The crown denotes sovereignty, victory, honor, perfected attainment, and continuity; radiate, evergreen, turreted, or thorned forms signify solar power, immortality, city protection, or martyrdom.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "crown", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "crucible", "name": "Crucible", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The crucible denotes the alchemical body and receptive womb where severe testing dissolves, purifies, and reunites opposites before regeneration and higher rebirth.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "crucible", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-crucifixion", "name": "Crucifixion", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Crucifixion denotes extreme suspended suffering between earth and sky, the absolute isolation of the forsaken, and a self-sacrifice held to redeem what it endures.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "essay", "domain": { "id": "crucifixion", "title": "Crucifixion", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Sickness and Death", "sense_count": 0, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "cube", "name": "Cube", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The cube denotes earth, stability, truth, completion, and a cycle’s final stillness; traditions associate it with foundations, sacred centers, the Kaaba, and crystallized salt.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cube", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "cuckoo", "name": "Cuckoo", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The cuckoo denotes spring or summer, wedlock, unrequited love, and royalty, but European associations also stress cuckoldry, jealousy, usurpation, and April foolishness.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cuckoo", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "cup", "name": "Cup", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The cup denotes containment, receptive power, life, immortality, plenty, and initiation; empty it means vanity, while traditions add suffering, wisdom, offering, grace, and world-reflection.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cup", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "curse", "name": "curse", "register": "concept", "gloss": "A curse denotes the word’s performative magic, imposing exile, blemish, or transformation; paradoxically, ritual cursing can deflect divine jealousy or promote fertility.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "curse", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "cyclamen", "name": "Cyclamen", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Cyclamen denotes distrust, diffidence, voluptuousness, and Mary’s bleeding heart; folklore treats its root as medicine, birth aid and risk, love charm, aphrodisiac, and ward.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cyclamen", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "cycle", "name": "Cycle", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The cycle denotes recurrence through measured time, opposing motions, rebirth, and transmigration; Stoic cosmology repeatedly dissolves the elements into primordial fire and begins anew.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cycle", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-cyclops", "name": "Cyclops/Giant", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The Cyclops denotes brute appetite in near-human form, single-eyed and lawless, born of earth and sky, forging thunder yet seeing without depth.", "attestations": 1, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "creature", "domain" ], "registry_id": "cyclops", "census": { "class": "creature", "status": "canon", "canon_id": "2_cyclops" }, "canon_creature": "2_cyclops", "domain": { "id": "cyclops", "title": "Cyclops/Giant", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Mythical Beings", "sense_count": 0, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "2_black_shuck", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "This spectral hound is not merely a black dog, but a monstrous entity with a single, glowing eye in the center of its head, reminiscent of the mythical Cyclops." }, { "id": "2_chenoo", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From Native American folklore, Chenoo is a cannibalistic ice giant with a heart made of ice." }, { "id": "2_cyclops", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From Greek mythology, Cyclops are one-eyed giants." }, { "id": "2_daidarabotchi", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From Japanese folklore, Daidarabotchi is a giant so large it can carry mountains." }, { "id": "g5_og", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Og is the giant king of Bashan from the Hebrew Bible, defeated by Moses, whom rabbinic legend expands into a figure who survives the Flood and reappears across generations of biblical history." } ] }, { "slug": "cymbals", "name": "Cymbals", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Cymbals denote paired earthly hemispheres and elemental motion; their clashing accompanies ecstatic Dionysian and Cybelean rites, dance, drama, prophecy, worship, and military procession.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "cymbals", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "daffodil", "name": "Daffodil", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Daffodil denotes spring, courage, Welsh identity, brief beauty, unrequited love, mourning, and rebirth; its asphodel lineage also connects it with the dead and Elysium.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "daffodil", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "dagger", "name": "Dagger", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The dagger denotes masculine and phallic force, serving Mars and Mithra; literary and theatrical traditions associate it with treachery, vice, assassination, and merciful killing.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "dagger", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "knife", "title": "Knife/Dagger", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Tools and Other Objects", "sense_count": 9, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ], "bundles": [ "Knife" ] }, "joined_by": "title_bundle" }, { "slug": "daisy", "name": "Daisy", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The daisy denotes the sun’s day-eye, innocence, purity, fidelity, resurrection, and death; folklore uses it in saintly rites, healing, spring tonics, and love divination.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "daisy", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "daksha", "name": "Daksha", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Daksha is a Hindu creator and Prajapati embodying competence and generative power, mutually born with Aditi and central to the sacrificial conflict involving Shiva.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "daksha", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "dandelion", "name": "Dandelion", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Dandelion denotes bitterness, Christ’s Passion, grief, coquetry, and the sun; its flowers and seeds support weather, love, and time divination, medicine, and witch protection.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "dandelion", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "darkness", "name": "Darkness", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Darkness denotes primordial chaos and unmanifest light, the prenatal ground of creation and initiation; after illumination it can signify regression, evil, captivity, death, or dissolution.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "darkness", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "darkness", "title": "Darkness", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Fire — Light and Darkness", "sense_count": 12, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "denotation_neighbours": [ { "slug": "initiation", "evidence": "Darkness denotes primordial chaos and unmanifest light, the prenatal ground of creation and initiation; after illumination it can signify regression, evil, captivity, death, or dissolution." }, { "slug": "light", "evidence": "Darkness denotes primordial chaos and unmanifest light, the prenatal ground of creation and initiation; after illumination it can signify regression, evil, captivity, death, or dissolution." } ] }, { "slug": "date", "name": "Date", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The date denotes fertility and fecundity, specifically masculine generative power paired with the grape’s feminine aspect; another cited passage instead concerns King David.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "date", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-dawn", "name": "Dawn", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Dawn denotes resurgent light and resurrection, the annunciation of anything coming into being, and is personified as a young goddess preceding the sun.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "dawn", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "dawn", "title": "Dawn", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Fire — Light and Darkness", "sense_count": 6, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "bridger-decomposition", "name": "Decomposition", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Decomposition denotes the breakdown of a thing into its elements, repellent and generative at once, feeding new life and figuring the analysis of a self.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "decomposition", "title": "Decomposition", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Sickness and Death", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "deer", "name": "Deer", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Deer imagery denotes swiftness, renewal, meditation, gentleness, divine messages, longevity, rank, and wealth, but can also signify lovesickness, solitude, or melancholy.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "deer", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "deer", "title": "Deer", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Wild Animals", "sense_count": 13, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "1_anhangá", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Brazilian mythology, this protective deer spirit has red eyes and cold flames on its antlers." }, { "id": "2_calygreyhound", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Medieval lore, Calygreyhound is a mythical beast with the head of a wildcat, the body of an antelope, and the hooves of a deer." }, { "id": "2_hircocervus", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "This unique hybrid possesses the majestic antlers and swift legs of a deer, combined with the sturdy body and sure-footed nature of a goat." }, { "id": "2_kirin", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "Stemming from East Asian mythology, the Kirin appears as a chimeric creature, often resembling a deer with dragon-like features." }, { "id": "2_wolpertinger", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Originating from Bavarian folklore, the Wolpertinger is depicted as a mythical animal, combining features from various creatures like rabbits, deer, and birds." }, { "id": "g2_deer_woman", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "In the folklore of many Plains and Southeastern Native American nations, Deer Woman is a shapeshifting spirit who appears as a beautiful woman with the legs (or hooves) of a deer, luring unfaithful or predatory men to their doom while protecting women and children." }, { "id": "g2_uktena", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Cherokee tradition, the Uktena is described as an immense serpent, as large around as a tree trunk, marked with bright colored rings or scales along its body and bearing a set of deer-like horns on its head." }, { "id": "g4_parandrus", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "As with most bestiary animals the question of what lies behind it — a reindeer, an elk, an ordinary deer seen through several layers of retelling — is raised by commentators and not settled." } ] }, { "slug": "delphinus", "name": "Delphinus", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Delphinus is the Dolphin constellation, associated with Poseidon’s courtship of Amphitrite and the rescue of Arion, whose dolphin helper was rewarded among the stars.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "delphinus", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-descent", "name": "Descent", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Descent denotes the movement downward into darkness, womb or underworld that initiation requires, undertaken for the treasure below and preceding any genuine rising.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "descent", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "descent", "title": "Descent", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Movement and Expression", "sense_count": 3, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "bridger-desert", "name": "Desert", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The desert denotes the stripped waterless place sought for solitude and truth, where visionaries withdraw to lose or find themselves beyond the distractions of settlement.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "desert", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "desert", "title": "Desert", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Earth", "sense_count": 3, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "dew", "name": "Dew", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Dew denotes dawn, spiritual refreshment, blessing, purity, youth, peace, and prosperity, yet also change and evanescence; traditions further associate it with immortality and resurrection.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "dew", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "dhanwantari", "name": "Dhanwantari", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Dhanwantari is the Hindu gods’ physician, born from the churned ocean, teacher of Ayurveda, bearer of nectar, and exemplar of immortal, universal medical knowledge.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "dhanwantari", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "diamond", "name": "Diamond", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Diamond denotes invincible hardness, light, purity, constancy, royalty, and incorruptibility; contrary folklore makes flawed or alienated stones sources of sorrow, poison, disease, and misfortune.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "diamond", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "disease", "name": "disease", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Disease denotes dangerous imbalance, supernatural anger, magic, or punishment; Mesoamerican traditions can instead mark illness as a summons whose survivors become powerful healers.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "disease", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "disease", "title": "Disease", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Sickness and Death", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 36, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "disk", "name": "Disk", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The disk denotes sun, renewed life, perfection, divinity, and power; winged, hollow, horned, or spinning forms add protection, cosmic emptiness, sacred union, and revolution.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "disk", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "dismemberment", "name": "Dismemberment", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Dismemberment denotes sacrificial fragmentation and reintegration, expressing creation’s many from one, initiatory death before rebirth, psychic disintegration, and the restoration of primordial unity.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "dismemberment", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "dismemberment", "title": "Dismemberment", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Sickness and Death", "sense_count": 5, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "distaff", "name": "Distaff", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The distaff denotes industry, feminine work, time, creation, life’s continuity, weaving, and fate, serving as an attribute of spinning goddesses and brides.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "distaff", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "divination", "name": "Divination", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Divination is the ritual interpretation of omens, dreams, spirits, lots, bodies, or natural signs to discern divine will, predetermined futures, and possible intervention.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "divination", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "denotation_neighbours": [ { "slug": "omen", "evidence": "Divination is the ritual interpretation of omens, dreams, spirits, lots, bodies, or natural signs to discern divine will, predetermined futures, and possible intervention." } ] }, { "slug": "bridger-dog", "name": "Dog", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The dog denotes faithful companionship and guardianship, and across mythologies attends death as scavenger and psychopomp, guarding the threshold or fetching souls across it.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "dog", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "dog", "title": "Dog", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Wild Animals", "sense_count": 33, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "dogs", "name": "Dogs", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Dog imagery denotes fidelity, vigilance, healing, guardianship, and passage to the dead, but sometimes impurity or demonic danger; heraldic sea-dogs are scaled aquatic hybrids.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "dogs", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "doll", "name": "Doll", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The doll denotes a soul, ancestor, deity-image, sympathetic proxy, fertility charm, or harvest spirit; Egyptian and literary traditions add funerary sexuality and dehumanizing possession.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "doll", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "dolmen", "name": "Dolmen", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The dolmen is a Neolithic stone tomb associated with solar and fertility rites, the earth’s womb, underworld passage, fetal burial, and anticipated rebirth.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "dolmen", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-dolphin", "name": "Dolphin", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The dolphin denotes swift benevolent rescue at sea, saviour of the shipwrecked and lover of music, and serves as a guide for souls across water.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "dolphin", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "dolphin", "title": "Dolphin", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Water Creatures", "sense_count": 7, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "g2_boto_encantado", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Brazilian Amazonian folklore, the Boto Encantado is a pink river dolphin that transforms into a handsome, charming man at night to seduce women at riverside festivals, then slips back into the water and vanishes before dawn." } ] }, { "slug": "bridger-donkey", "name": "Donkey", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The donkey denotes humble steadfast service, emblem of the poor, saddled with projections of stupidity while carrying the holy and seeing what its rider cannot.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "donkey", "title": "Donkey", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Wild Animals", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "door", "name": "Door", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The door denotes threshold, hope, opportunity, protection, initiation, and passage between life, death, worlds, or states; traditions guard it with deities, rites, and taboos.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "door", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "gate", "title": "Gate/Door", "world": "Human World", "sub": "House and Home", "sense_count": 19, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ], "bundles": [ "Gate" ] }, "joined_by": "title_bundle" }, { "slug": "bridger-dot-bindu", "name": "Dot/ Bindu", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The dot denotes the least visible mark, position without extension, taken as the creative centre and formless origin from which everything unfurls.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "dot-bindu", "title": "Dot/ Bindu", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Rituals and Sacred Systems", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "dove", "name": "Dove", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The dove denotes purity, peace, the soul, and passage between worlds, though some traditions also link it with sexuality or approaching death.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "dove", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "dove", "title": "Dove", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Birds", "sense_count": 24, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "denotation_neighbours": [ { "slug": "peace", "evidence": "The dove denotes purity, peace, the soul, and passage between worlds, though some traditions also link it with sexuality or approaching death." } ] }, { "slug": "bridger-dragon", "name": "Dragon", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The dragon denotes chaotic instinctual power, guardian of hoarded treasure and fertility, destructive in the West and, in China, the beneficent waterlike way of things.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "dragon", "census": { "class": "creature", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "dragon", "title": "Dragon", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Mythical Beings", "sense_count": 12, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "1_qilin", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Chinese legends portray this chimerical being with a dragon's head, deer's body, and hooves." }, { "id": "1_tiamat", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From ancient Mesopotamian myths, this dragon-like goddess embodies primordial creation's chaos." }, { "id": "2_cockatrice", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From European folklore, the Cockatrice is a dragon-rooster hybrid with petrifying gaze." }, { "id": "2_kirin", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Stemming from East Asian mythology, the Kirin appears as a chimeric creature, often resembling a deer with dragon-like features." }, { "id": "2_long_ma", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From Chinese myths, Long Ma is a dragon-horse with scales and fiery manes." }, { "id": "2_mushusshu", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Originating from Babylonian mythology, the Mushusshu is a dragon-like creature adorned with scales and a long, serpentine body." }, { "id": "2_ouroboros", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Ouroboros is an ancient symbol, depicted as a serpent or dragon eating its own tail." }, { "id": "2_peluda", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Originating from French folklore, the Peluda is a dragon-like creature, covered in poisonous quills." }, { "id": "2_piasa", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Piasa is a Native American myth from the Illinois River region, depicted as a winged, dragon-like creature." }, { "id": "2_tarasque", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Originating from French folklore, the Tarasque is a dragon-like creature, subdued by Saint Martha, depicted as fearsome yet tamed." }, { "id": "2_warak_ngendog", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Warak ngendog is a creature from Javanese folklore, depicted as a hybrid between a dragon and a peacock with a colorful and ornate appearance." }, { "id": "g1_amaru", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Inca and broader Andean South American tradition, Amaru is a serpentine dragon-like being associated with subterranean and underwater realms and the power to reshape the earth itself." }, { "id": "g1_azhi_dahaka", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Persian and Zoroastrian tradition, Azhi Dahaka is a three-headed serpent-demon and one of the great dragon-adversaries of the Avesta, later recast as the tyrant Zahhak in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh." }, { "id": "g1_kur", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Sumerian mythology, Kur is a primordial dragon-like being and the name of the underworld itself, cast as the chaos serpent that Enki or Ninurta must subdue." }, { "id": "g1_melusine", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "She is typically described as a beautiful woman who is transformed, or reveals herself to be, a serpent or dragon from the waist down every Saturday, and in some tellings she additionally bears wings and a fish-like tail associated with her legendary role as ancestress of the Lusignan line." }, { "id": "g1_wyvern", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "A heraldic dragon of medieval European tradition, distinguished from the four-legged dragon by its two legs, a pair of wings, and a barbed, often knotted, serpentine tail." }, { "id": "g2_illuyanka", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Hittite mythology, Illuyanka is the dragon-serpent defeated by the storm-god Tarhunt in the combat myth recited at the Hittite New Year (Purulli) festival." }, { "id": "g2_ladon", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Greek mythology, Ladon is the serpentine dragon that coils around or through the tree of golden apples in the garden of the Hesperides, guarding the fruit against all who would take it." }, { "id": "g2_moo", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Native Hawaiian tradition, mo'o are giant lizard- or dragon-like water-guardian spirits associated with fishponds, springs, and streams, often taking the form of a beautiful woman when they interact with humans." }, { "id": "g2_ninki_nanka", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Gambian and Senegalese Mandinka folklore, the Ninki Nanka is a dragon-like river-monster and guardian of sacred waters, said to bring death or madness to anyone who glimpses it." }, { "id": "g2_y_ddraig_goch", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Welsh mythology, Y Ddraig Goch is the red dragon that battles a white invader dragon beneath Dinas Emrys, its buried struggle later interpreted by the boy-prophet Myrddin (Merlin) as an omen of the Britons' eventual victory over the Saxons." }, { "id": "g3_ajatar", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Finnish folklore, Ajatar is a malevolent forest spirit imagined as a monstrous female serpent or dragon who nurses snakes and spreads sickness to any human who crosses her path." }, { "id": "g3_beithir", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Beithir is a fiery-eyed, black-scaled serpent-dragon of Scottish Highland folklore said to haunt lochs, caves, and mountain corries." }, { "id": "g3_kiyo", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Kiyo is a woman of Japanese Buddhist legend whose love for a priest curdled into vengeance, transforming her into a fire-breathing dragon who destroyed the temple bell he hid beneath." }, { "id": "g3_kundrav", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Persian mythology, Kundrav, also called Gandareva, is a colossal dragon-like sea demon so vast that his upper body reached the sky while his lower body rested in the ocean." }, { "id": "g3_ryujin", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Ryujin is Japan's Dragon King of the sea, ruler of an undersea jeweled palace who commands the tides, raises storms against those who offend him, and is honored as an ancestor of the imperial line." }, { "id": "g4_kaukas", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The descriptions vary between a small bearded man, a goblin-like figure, and a fiery trailing serpent or dragon seen flying at night — the last of these being the form in which it is said to travel, carrying what it has taken." }, { "id": "g4_o_goncho", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "O Goncho is the white dragon of a Japanese pond that rises once in fifty years as a golden bird, its cry heard as a warning of famine and disease to come." }, { "id": "g5_pytho", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Greek myth gives Pytho as the serpent or dragon that guarded the sanctuary at Delphi before Apollo claimed the site for his own oracle, born of the earth goddess Gaia and dwelling in the chasm or spring at the foot of Mount Parnassus." }, { "id": "g6_chi_lung_wang", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Chi Lung Wang is the Chinese dragon king of the fire engines — the benevolent celestial patron propitiated for domestic water and working pumps when a house catches fire." }, { "id": "g6_kulshedra", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Kulshedra is Albania's drought dragon — silver-eyed, horned, nine-tongued and fire-breathing in maturity, once appeased with human sacrifice." }, { "id": "g6_loathly_worm", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Loathly Worm is the wingless, two-legged dragon of British border legend — most famously a bespelled princess at Spindleston Heugh, restored by her brother's three kisses." }, { "id": "g6_lotan", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Lotan is the seven-headed sea dragon of Canaanite myth, chaos's champion beside Yam and Mot against Baal, and the ancestor of the biblical Leviathan." }, { "id": "g6_stihi", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The stihi is a female fire-breathing dragon of Albanian tradition, carried to southern Italy by the Arberesh, that jealously guards a hoard of treasure." }, { "id": "g7_dragon_carp", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "A Korean fish with a dragon's head and a carp's tail, who spoke from the net and repaid the fisherman who let him go." }, { "id": "g7_herensugue", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Basque serpent-demon, met with seven heads, or as a snake flying through the air, or as a dragon, depending on the work it has come to do." } ] }, { "slug": "dragonfly", "name": "Dragonfly", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The dragonfly denotes swift transformation and renewal, but Chinese and Japanese traditions also associate it with summer, instability, weakness, or unreliability.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "dragonfly", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "dreams", "name": "Dreams", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Dreams denote sleep-borne access to spirits, ancestors, gods, and the Otherworld, making their imagery a medium for prophecy and interpretation.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "dreams", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "drinking", "name": "Drinking", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Drinking denotes incorporation of divine power through sacred liquids, shared-cup union, or, in biblical ordeal, a test exposing guilt.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "drinking", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "drowning", "name": "Drowning", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Drowning denotes surrender of individual identity into undifferentiated unity, while historical ordeal lore made sinking evidence of innocence at potentially fatal cost.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "drowning", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "drowning", "title": "Drowning", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Sickness and Death", "sense_count": 3, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "druid", "name": "Druid", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "A druid is a Celtic ritual specialist associated with learned magic, healing, weather-working, sacred plants, and later the legendary powers of Celtic saints.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "druid", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "drum", "name": "Drum", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The drum denotes primordial sound, revelation, cosmic rhythm, war, prayer, and spirit-summoning; one Chinese myth instead names Drum as a culture hero.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "drum", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "drum", "title": "Drum", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Sound", "sense_count": 19, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "duck", "name": "Duck", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The duck denotes mediation between sky and water, fidelity and conjugal happiness in East Asia, but also superficiality, chatter, or deceit.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "duck", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-dusk", "name": "Dusk", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Dusk denotes the darkening interval that still holds the day's last light, quickening night animals and the uncanny, and figuring the evening of a life.", "attestations": 1, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "domain": { "id": "dusk", "title": "Dusk", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Fire — Light and Darkness", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "domain_slug", "creatures": [ { "id": "2_three-legged_bird", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The bird's most distinctive feature, its three legs, is believed to represent the three phases of the day: dawn, noon, and dusk, further emphasizing its solar association." } ] }, { "slug": "bridger-eagle", "name": "Eagle", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The eagle denotes sovereign ascent and solar majesty, flying highest of birds, messenger of heaven and emblem of empire, renewing itself in fire and sun.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "eagle", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "eagle", "title": "Eagle", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Birds", "sense_count": 66, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "1_griffin", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Revered in various mythologies, this legendary creature boasts the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle." }, { "id": "2_anzû", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Originating from Mesopotamian myths, Anzû is a lion-headed eagle." }, { "id": "2_hraesvelg", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Norse mythology, Hraesvelg is depicted as a giant eagle whose wings create the wind, embodying the elemental and the colossal." }, { "id": "2_jipijka'm", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Stemming from Mi'kmaq folklore, the Jipijka'm is described as a giant eagle, majestic and powerful." }, { "id": "2_lamassu", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Found in ancient Assyrian and Babylonian mythology, Lamassu is depicted as a protective deity with a human head, the body of a bull or lion, and the wings of an eagle." }, { "id": "g1_garuda", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Hindu and Buddhist mythology of India and Southeast Asia, Garuda is the great divine eagle-man who serves as Vishnu's mount and the sworn enemy of serpents." } ] }, { "slug": "bridger-ear", "name": "Ear", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The ear denotes receptive hearing, spiralled like a shell, the organ of obedience and revelation through which the word was held to enter and conceive.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "ear", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "ear", "title": "Ear", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "bridger-earring", "name": "Earring", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The earring denotes an amulet and mark of passage, piercing the lobe to signal maturity, wealth or vocation, and enlarging the ear for spiritual hearing.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "earring", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "earring", "title": "Earring", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Tools and Other Objects", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "east", "name": "east", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "East denotes sunrise, beginnings, youth, hope, and renewed life; Irish cosmology additionally links it with commerce, wealth, and Leinster.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "east", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "easter", "name": "Easter", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Easter denotes Christ’s resurrection fused with spring renewal traditions, including eggs, hares, seasonal fire, returning vegetation, and pre-Christian rebirth imagery.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "easter", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "eating", "name": "Eating", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Eating denotes sustenance and fertility, with ritual consumption understood to transfer the food’s fecundity, heroic prowess, sanctity, or spiritual power.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "eating", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "eclipse", "name": "eclipse", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "An eclipse denotes a feared assault upon the sun or moon, often imagined as celestial biting or devouring and opposed through sympathetic rites.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "eclipse", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "eclipse", "title": "Eclipse", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Cosmos", "sense_count": 0, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "eel", "name": "Eel", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The eel denotes slipperiness, sexual potency, and nimbleness, while folklore variously treats it as a dead soul, disguised dragon, or uncanny water-creature.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "eel", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "egg", "name": "egg", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The egg denotes latent creation, fertility, cosmic totality, rebirth, and hope; Celtic grave offerings and magical eggs add afterlife and transformative associations.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "egg", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "elder", "name": "Elder", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Elder denotes witchcraft and ghostly power, yet its branches also protect against lightning or witches and its preparations serve numerous folk remedies.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "elder", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "elements", "name": "Elements", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The elements denote nature’s foundational forces, commonly four in Western schemes and five in Asian traditions, each mapped to forms, colors, qualities, and creatures.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "elements", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "denotation_neighbours": [ { "slug": "four", "evidence": "The elements denote nature’s foundational forces, commonly four in Western schemes and five in Asian traditions, each mapped to forms, colors, qualities, and creatures." } ] }, { "slug": "bridger-elephant", "name": "Elephant", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The elephant denotes vast strength joined to memory, wisdom and restraint, bearing the earth in some cosmologies and standing for unhurried dignity.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "elephant", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "elephant", "title": "Elephant", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Wild Animals", "sense_count": 14, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "2_baku", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Japanese mythology, Baku is a chimera with elements of a tiger, an elephant, and an ox." }, { "id": "2_monocerus", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Emerging from medieval European lore, the Monocerus is a wild and fierce beast resembling a horse, with an elephant’s feet and a boar’s tail." } ] }, { "slug": "eleven", "name": "ELEVEN", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Eleven denotes balance or leadership in one account, but another treats it as transgression and danger because it exceeds the ordered perfection of ten.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "eleven", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "elf-shot", "name": "Elf-shot", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Elf-shot is a folk diagnosis for sudden paralysis, illness, or injury attributed to nearly invisible fairy arrows, often identified with prehistoric flint points.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "elf-shot", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "ellipse", "name": "Ellipse", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The ellipse denotes cosmic wholeness, the generative womb, air, or the underworld; its paired sides also figure descent and ascent.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "ellipse", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "elm", "name": "Elm", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Elm denotes dignity and scriptural strength in Christian imagery, while classical and Germanic traditions associate it with marriage, vine-support, and humanity’s first woman.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "elm", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "elpis", "name": "Elpis", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Elpis is the personified remainder in Pandora’s jar, interpreted either as hope or, more darkly, as realistic expectation of future suffering.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "elpis", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "emerald", "name": "Emerald", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Emerald denotes spring, hope, youth, fidelity, and immortality, while folk medicine credits it with protection, divination, poison detection, and many cures.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "emerald", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "ephod", "name": "Ephod", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The ephod is a Hebrew priestly object linked to divination; symbolically, its fourfold composition and central breastplate represent the universe and cosmic center.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "ephod", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "epilepsy", "name": "Epilepsy", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Epilepsy is a neurological disorder historically interpreted as divine communication, religious trance, possession, or punishment and treated through varied folk remedies.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "epilepsy", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "epiphany", "name": "Epiphany", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Epiphany is the feast of divine manifestation, especially Christ’s revelation to the Gentile Magi and, earlier in eastern Christianity, his birth.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "epiphany", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "ermine", "name": "Ermine", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Ermine denotes purity, chastity, innocence, justice, and noble rank, based on its white winter coat and the legend that it avoids defilement.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "ermine", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "ethiopia", "name": "Ethiopia", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Ethiopia is the northeastern African land linked in Greek myth with Perseus, Tithonus, and Dawn, not a symbol in these citations.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "ethiopia", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "euphrates", "name": "Euphrates", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The Euphrates is Mesopotamia’s great river, associated with Babylon and other ancient cities rather than functioning primarily as a symbol here.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "euphrates", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "evergreens", "name": "Evergreens", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Evergreens denote endurance, immortality, vitality, and perpetual youth; winter and funerary uses connect their lasting foliage with fertility’s return and undying fame.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "evergreens", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "evil-eye", "name": "Evil Eye", "register": "concept", "gloss": "The evil eye is a widespread belief that an intense or admiring gaze can involuntarily cause illness or misfortune, especially to children.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "evil-eye", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "excrement", "name": "Excrement", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Excrement denotes personal potency, wealth, or alchemical decay in some traditions, but Central Mexican symbolism connects it with pollution, sexual misconduct, and wrongdoing.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "excrement", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "excrement", "title": "Excrement", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 3, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "execution", "name": "execution", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Execution denotes punitive death and, in Mesoamerican practice, public purification distinct from sacrificial offering; gallows lore also invests the site with dangerous magic.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "execution", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "external-soul", "name": "external soul", "register": "concept", "gloss": "The external soul is life or vulnerability stored outside the body in an object, animal, or plant, allowing unusual invulnerability until that vessel is destroyed.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "external-soul", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "face", "name": "Face", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The face denotes outward identity or a deity’s manifested aspect, while solar and divine faces convey illumination, protection, and sovereign presence.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "face", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "fairy-crafts", "name": "Fairy crafts", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Fairy crafts are folkloric skills such as shoemaking, spinning, weaving, music, and metalwork, performed for themselves, taught to mortals, or exchanged as labor.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "fairy-crafts", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "fairy-food", "name": "Fairy Food", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Fairy food is enchantingly delicious but often unnourishing; tales warn that eating it may bind visitors, while fairies steal the nourishing essence of human food.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "fairy-food", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "fairy-ointment", "name": "Fairy ointment", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Fairy ointment is a magical salve that pierces glamour and invisibility, letting human eyes perceive fairy beings and surroundings as they truly appear.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "fairy-ointment", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "falcon", "name": "Falcon", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The falcon denotes solar power, aspiration, victory, freedom, and celestial vision, while Chinese symbolism also admits its destructive association with war.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "falcon", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "falcon", "title": "Falcon", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Birds", "sense_count": 20, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "bridger-falling", "name": "Falling", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Falling denotes loss of control that casts one into a new state, feared as punishment, yet naming the sleep and the love one falls into.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "falling", "title": "Falling", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Movement and Expression", "sense_count": 3, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "fan", "name": "fan", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The fan denotes moving air, authority, dignity, expanding life, lunar change, and protection; Mesoamerican examples identify travelers and dancers rather than one fixed meaning.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "fan", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "fasces", "name": "Fasces", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The fasces denotes magistracy, judicial punishment, and collective strength, its bound rods and axe joining scourging and execution under disciplined authority.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "fasces", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "fasting", "name": "Fasting", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Fasting is ritual abstinence used for purification, mourning, divine favor, forgiveness, visions, or, in Celtic practice, publicly pressing a grievance.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "fasting", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "fat", "name": "Fat", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Fat denotes concentrated life-force and bodily power, making it a choice portion reserved for divinity in sacrificial practice.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "fat", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "fawn", "name": "Fawn", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The fawn denotes gentleness, timidity, and grace, and appears with Diana or as the skin worn by Bacchic and Orphic devotees.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "fawn", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-feather", "name": "Feather", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The feather denotes flight and lightness in a single part, weighed against the heart to judge a life, and worn to borrow the bird's power.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "feather", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "feather", "title": "Feather", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Birds", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "fennel", "name": "Fennel", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Fennel is a medicinal and culinary herb whose ritual associations include the fennel wreaths worn by devotees of Sabazios.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "fennel", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "fertility", "name": "fertility", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Fertility denotes generative abundance in crops, animals, and people, often expressed through agricultural deities, sacrificed or returning gods, and war’s renewal imagery.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "fertility", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "fever", "name": "Fever", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Fever is an illness mythically attributed to Artemis, divine punishment, or personified disease offspring, and metaphorically associated with passion and restlessness.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "fever", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "field", "name": "Field", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The field denotes fertility, nourishment, material creation, and open possibility; many traditions metaphorically cast earth or woman as field and man as seed.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "field", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "fifty", "name": "FIFTY", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Fifty denotes completion followed by renewal: a jubilee after seven times seven years, a fresh beginning, and a four-year lunar cycle.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "fifty", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "finger", "name": "Finger", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The finger denotes direction, command, blessing, judgment, silence, or insult; particular gestures can convey spiritual power or ward against the evil eye.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "finger", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "finger", "title": "Finger", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 37, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "fir", "name": "Fir", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The fir denotes upright boldness, integrity, patience, and the elect, while its evergreen and pyramidal form connects it with sacred trees and fire.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "fir", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "fir-bholg", "name": "Fir Bholg", "register": "concept", "gloss": "The Fir Bholg are an early people of Irish legend, comprising related tribes defeated and displaced by the Tuatha Dé Danann.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "fir-bholg", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-fire", "name": "Fire", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Fire denotes the primary element that quickens and destroys alike, the sun's heat and lightning's stroke, and burns as zeal, passion and the tended hearth.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "fire", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "fire", "title": "Fire", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Fire — Light and Darkness", "sense_count": 18, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "1_yamata_no_orochi", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "This formidable beast is typically depicted as having eight heads and eight tails, each head representing a different elemental force: fire, water, earth, wind, lightning, ice, venom, and spirit." }, { "id": "2_cherufe", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Cherufe, a fearsome creature of Chilean mythology, is a being of pure magma and fire that dwells within the depths of active volcanoes." }, { "id": "2_ifrit", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Originating from Islamic culture, Ifrits are powerful, winged creatures made of smokeless fire." }, { "id": "2_kasha", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Its approach is marked by an ominous rattling sound, often accompanied by a surge of spectral fire that illuminates the night sky." }, { "id": "g5_kludde", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The figure sits within a broader Northern European pattern of shapeshifting black-dog bogies that guard roads and waterways, comparable to English black-dog legends and Dutch bogeyman figures, though the surviving record for Kludde specifically is thin: a set of recurring motifs — chains, blue fire, the mounting and weighing-down, the shift between animal forms — preserved mainly in regional folklore collections and encyclopedia entries rather than in any extended narrative literature with named individual episodes." } ] }, { "slug": "fish", "name": "Fish", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Fish denote aquatic life, fertility, renewal, divine nourishment, and resurrection, while specific traditions also treat them as offerings, taboos, ghosts’ food, or oracles.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "fish", "census": { "class": "creature", "status": "candidate", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "fish", "title": "Fish", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Water Creatures", "sense_count": 18, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "2_amemasu", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Ainu folklore, Amemasu is a massive fish that resides in cold lakes." }, { "id": "2_bahamut", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From Arabic mythology, Bahamut is an enormous fish that supports the Earth." }, { "id": "2_bishop-fish", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From Medieval European bestiaries, the Bishop-fish is a sea creature with a human-like face and a mitre." }, { "id": "2_black_demon_shark", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "Its presence is said to induce a deep, instinctive fear in other marine life, causing schools of fish to scatter and even larger predators to flee." }, { "id": "2_gurangatch", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "Gurangatch's body is often described as a fusion of fish and reptile, with scales that shimmer like burning embers and eyes that glow with an otherworldly intensity." }, { "id": "2_hippocamp", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "In Greek mythology, the Hippocamp is a magnificent sea creature, possessing the head of a horse and the body of a fish." }, { "id": "2_ichthyocentaur", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "The Ichthyocentaur is a creature from Greek mythology, part human, part horse, and part fish, embodying the fluidity of identity and the complexity of nature." }, { "id": "2_lamiak", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "These mystical beings are often described as having the upper body of a beautiful woman, while their lower half resembles that of a fish or duck, drawing parallels to mermaids or sirens from other cultures." }, { "id": "2_luduan", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Chinese mythology, the Luduan captivates with a lion's head, a rhino's horn, a dragon's body, bear paws, fish scales, and an ox's tail." }, { "id": "2_nyami_nyami", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "In Tonga folklore, Nyami Nyami is a river god, depicted as a serpent with a fish’s head." }, { "id": "2_peng_/_kun", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Chinese mythology, the Peng is a gigantic bird that transforms from Kun, a giant fish." }, { "id": "2_sarimanok", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Sarimanok is typically depicted with a fish held in its beak or claws, symbolizing sustenance and abundance." }, { "id": "g1_amaru", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Amaru is typically described as a massive, serpentine creature, and in many tellings it is depicted as a composite or chimeric being combining features of a snake with those of other animals, such as the head of a llama, the wings of a condor, or the body parts of a fish, marking it as a boundary-crossing creature that belongs to no single domain." }, { "id": "g1_melusine", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "In French and broader medieval European folklore, Melusine is a water spirit who is a woman above the waist and a serpent (or serpent-and-fish) below, bound to a marriage vow that forbids her husband from seeing her true form on a fixed day." }, { "id": "g1_sedna", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "Sedna is most often described as a woman transformed into a being of the deep, her lower body merging into that of a great fish or sea mammal, and her long hair, which she cannot comb herself, drifting loose in the currents around her." }, { "id": "g2_makara", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "In Hindu and Buddhist mythology, the Makara is a composite sea-monster with the forequarters of a crocodile and the hindquarters of a fish, serving as the vahana of the river goddess Ganga and the water-god Varuna and appearing throughout South and Southeast Asian temple iconography." }, { "id": "g3_liban", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Unable to endure her confinement any longer, Liban is said to have prayed to become a fish so that she might move freely through the water that had swallowed her home." }, { "id": "g7_ambize", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The description is remarkably consistent across retellings and oddly domestic in its details: the head of a pig or an ox carried on a fish's body at enormous scale, with something like hands where the fins belong, and a tail both flattened and rounded — likened, in one telling, to an archery target." }, { "id": "g7_dragon_carp", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "A Korean fish with a dragon's head and a carp's tail, who spoke from the net and repaid the fisherman who let him go." } ] }, { "slug": "five", "name": "FIVE", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Five denotes the human microcosm, centered wholeness, generative union, the senses, and spiritual aspiration, commonly figured by the pentagon, pentagram, or five-petalled flower.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "five", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "flagellation", "name": "flagellation", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Flagellation is ritual whipping used for initiation, purification, fertility, exorcism, endurance, expiation, punishment, or stimulation rather than solely penal violence.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "flagellation", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "flail", "name": "Flail", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The flail denotes sovereign power, judgment, grain fertility, and suffering; Egyptian imagery pairs it with the crook and places it in Osiris’s hand.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "flail", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "flame", "name": "Flame", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Flame denotes life-force, purification, wisdom, love, soul, divine presence, and transformation; one citation instead names a Chinese genealogical figure called Flame.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "flame", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "flax", "name": "flax", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Flax denotes domestic industry, fertility, simplicity, vigorous life, and fate through spinning; folklore also makes its flowers protective and its seed medicinal.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "flax", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "flea", "name": "Flea", "register": "concept", "gloss": "The flea denotes parasitism, pettiness, pestering, and contemptible opposition; folk explanations cast its torment as punishment for human laziness.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "flea", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "fleece", "name": "Fleece", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Fleece denotes animal vitality, fertility, rain, progeny, and sustaining abundance, while the Golden Fleece adds guarded treasure and heroic quest.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "fleece", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "creatures": [ { "id": "2_chrysomallus", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Its fleece, shimmering with an otherworldly golden hue, is said to radiate warmth and light even in the darkest of nights." } ] }, { "slug": "fleur-de-lis", "name": "Fleur-de-lis", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The fleur-de-lis denotes light, life, royalty, divine triplicity, and military power, combining stylized flower, flame, spearhead, and French royal emblem.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "fleur-de-lis", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "floating", "name": "Floating", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Floating denotes passivity, return to the womb, or ecstasy on water, but lightness and magical flight in air; witch trials interpreted buoyancy as guilt.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "floating", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "flood", "name": "Flood", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Flood denotes destructive punishment and cyclical ending, yet its receding waters also mark survival, regeneration, and a renewed world.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "flood", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "flood", "title": "Flood", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Water", "sense_count": 5, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "flour", "name": "flour", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Flour denotes refined essence and shares bread and grain associations; Mesopotamian rites used it for magic drawings, divination, exorcism, scattering, and ritual heaps.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "flour", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-flower", "name": "Flower", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The flower denotes joy, beauty and feminine love, the surest sign of spring, and by its brief blooming everything radiant that quickly fades.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "flower", "census": { "class": "person", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "flower", "title": "Flower", "world": "Plant World", "sub": "Magical Plants and Flowers", "sense_count": 9, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "flowers", "name": "Flowers", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Flowers denote receptive potential, unfolding life, paradise, beauty, and mortality; colors and traditions variously connect them with divinity, passion, purity, death, or rebirth.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "flowers", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "flute", "name": "flute", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The flute denotes powerful emotion, seduction, harmony, and divine music; Greek accounts also frame it as bodily distortion or foreign excess.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "flute", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "flute", "title": "Flute", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Sound", "sense_count": 6, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "flying", "name": "Flying", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Flying denotes speed, height, spiritual release, transcendence, or escape, including the soul’s passage beyond material limits and the sage’s liberation from ordinary conditions.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "flying", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "fog", "name": "Fog", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Fog denotes obscured vision, isolation, inertia, and approaching death, while one Philippine myth treats Cloud and Fog as forces summoned to help flood the earth.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "fog", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "fog", "title": "Fog", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Air — Wind and Weather", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 36, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "fool", "name": "Fool", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The fool denotes chaos opposed to royal order, licensed truth-telling, scapegoat substitution, social nonconformity, and the unawakened person moving blindly toward danger.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "fool", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-foot", "name": "Foot", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The foot denotes contact with earth and the ground of reality, bared to receive its blessing, while cloven or wounded it marks a chthonic nature.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "foot", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "foot", "title": "Foot", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 13, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "g2_xtabay", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "She is most commonly pictured as a strikingly beautiful woman with long, flowing hair, seated at the foot of a ceiba tree combing her hair or bathing by moonlight, and calling out to or singing for men passing by alone at night, particularly along lonely roads or paths on the outskirts of town." }, { "id": "g7_berchta", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The ragged Alpine winter woman with one flattened treadle foot, who inspects barns and spinning between Christmas and Twelfth Night." } ] }, { "slug": "forest", "name": "Forest", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The forest denotes the untamed psyche, hidden peril, death, spirits, and initiatory testing, where entry into darkness can precede insight or rebirth.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "forest", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "forest", "title": "Forest/ Jungle", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Earth", "sense_count": 13, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "forge", "name": "Forge", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The forge denotes thought and poetic inspiration, while alchemy treats its furnace as transformative fire acting upon a receptive matrix.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "forge", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "forget-me-not", "name": "forget-me-not", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The forget-me-not denotes sincere love, constancy, remembrance, and simple affection, traditionally exchanged between friends, travelers, or leap-year companions.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "forget-me-not", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "fork", "name": "fork", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The fork denotes spite, torture, death, or an expected female visitor; in Mesopotamian art its trident form is a rare divine attribute.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "fork", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "fountain", "name": "Fountain", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The fountain denotes a maternal source, cosmic center, living water, youth, immortality, purification, revelation, and passage from death toward renewed life.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "fountain", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "fountain", "title": "Fountain", "world": "Human World", "sub": "House and Home", "sense_count": 4, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "four", "name": "FOUR", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Four denotes earthly order, solidity, totality, measure, justice, and the cardinal structure of space, seasons, elements, and sacred architecture.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "four", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "denotation_neighbours": [ { "slug": "elements", "evidence": "Four denotes earthly order, solidity, totality, measure, justice, and the cardinal structure of space, seasons, elements, and sacred architecture." } ] }, { "slug": "fox", "name": "Fox", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The fox denotes cunning, trickery, sexuality, and transformation; traditions also make it a devilish deceiver, magical messenger, long-lived spirit, or culture hero.", "attestations": 6, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "fox", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "fox", "title": "Fox", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Wild Animals", "sense_count": 21, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "foxglove", "name": "foxglove", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Foxglove is a poisonous medicinal flower whose folk names link it with fairies, blood, the dead, women’s sewing tools, and bells.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "foxglove", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "foyson", "name": "Foyson", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Foyson is the nourishing essence believed to inhabit food, which fairies could steal while leaving its visible substance deceptively unchanged.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "foyson", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "frog", "name": "Frog", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The frog denotes rain, lunar power, fertility, renewal, and primordial waters, though Christian imagery can invert it into sin, greed, or heresy.", "attestations": 5, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "frog", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "frog", "title": "Frog", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Water Creatures", "sense_count": 7, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "g2_yara-ma-yha-who", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "The Yara-ma-yha-who is a being recorded across Australian Aboriginal oral tradition, most often described as a small, frog-like or man-shaped creature no taller than a child, with a large head, a wide mouth lacking teeth, and skin of a deep red color." }, { "id": "g3_llamhigyn_y_dwr", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "The Llamhigyn Y Dwr is a freshwater menace from Welsh folklore, its name translating roughly to \"Water-Leaper.\" Tellings describe it as built like an outsized toad or frog, but wrong in its particulars: in most descriptions it has bat-like wings where its legs should be, along with a long tail, so that the creature reads as neither fully amphibian nor fully airborne." } ] }, { "slug": "fruit", "name": "Fruit", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Fruit denotes abundance, fulfilled potential, immortality, sacrifice, and the seed of a succeeding state; particular trees distinguish knowledge, attachment, and eternal life.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "fruit", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-furies", "name": "Furies", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The Furies are the unceasing avengers of blood-guilt and betrayed kinship, serpent-haired sisters whose pursuit is the psyche's refusal to let a crime go unowned.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "creature", "domain" ], "registry_id": "furies", "census": { "class": "creature", "status": "canon", "canon_id": "g3_furies" }, "canon_creature": "g3_furies", "domain": { "id": "furies", "title": "Furies", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Mythical Beings", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "g3_furies", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Greek and Roman mythology, the Furies are Alecto, Tisiphone, and Megaera, avenging spirits born from the blood of the castrated sky god Uranus who relentlessly pursue and punish serious wrongdoing, especially crimes against kin." } ] }, { "slug": "furze", "name": "furze", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Furze is thorny, perpetually blooming gorse, associated with bees, hardy nourishment, and the transformation of harsh growth into usable fodder.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "furze", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "gadfly", "name": "Gadfly", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The gadfly denotes relentless provocation and lust-driven madness, reflecting its bite’s power to send cattle into frenzied flight.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "gadfly", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "gagates", "name": "gagates", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Gagates is an ancient dark gemstone, probably jet, credited with repelling demons, snakes, epilepsy, dropsy, illusion, and feigned illness.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "gagates", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "gall", "name": "Gall", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Gall denotes bitterness, rancor, and misery, reinforced by biblical combinations with vinegar or wormwood.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "gall", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "games", "name": "games", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Games denote seasonal vitality and fertility, martial prowess, ancestral memory, ritual divination, and competition, rather than mere recreation.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "games", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "garden", "name": "Garden", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The garden denotes cultivated soul, ordered nature, fertility, paradise, and the blessed dead; enclosure adds protection, femininity, or virginity.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "garden", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "garden", "title": "Garden", "world": "Plant World", "sub": "Magical Plants and Flowers", "sense_count": 17, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "garlic", "name": "garlic", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Garlic denotes strong magical protection, especially against witches and evil forces, while its pungency also connects it symbolically with lightning.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "garlic", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "garnet", "name": "Garnet", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Garnet denotes devotion, loyalty, energy, and grace; its name and common red color also connect it visually with pomegranate seeds.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "garnet", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "gate", "name": "Gate", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The gate denotes threshold, guarded passage, protection, rebirth, and communication between worlds, especially between life and death or earthly and divine realms.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "gate", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "gate", "title": "Gate/Door", "world": "Human World", "sub": "House and Home", "sense_count": 19, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "gazelle", "name": "Gazelle", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The gazelle denotes grace, speed, gentleness, and spiritual escape from passion, while serving variously as an attribute of lunar, storm, fertility, or wilderness deities.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "gazelle", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "gemini", "name": "Gemini", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Gemini denotes paired opposites, dual human nature, life and death, and perpetual inversion, expressed through twins, lovers, or an hourglass.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "gemini", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "gentian", "name": "gentian", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Gentian is a bitter medicinal flower associated with counter-poison, autumn, loveliness, Scorpio, and, in Lawrence’s poetry, a dark passage toward the underworld.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "gentian", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "george", "name": "George", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "George is the Christian warrior saint and dragon-slayer, patron of England, whose recurring victory figures the unending contest between sacred order and evil.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "george", "census": { "class": "person", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "geras", "name": "Geras", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Geras is the Greek personification of hateful old age, born from Night and listed among largely allegorical forces such as Strife and Deceit.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "geras", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-ghost", "name": "Ghost", "register": "domain", "gloss": "A ghost is the returning dead made present to the living, apparition of unfinished business and unresolved grief, by turns vengeful, pitiable and tenderly protective.", "attestations": 1, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "ghost", "census": { "class": "ghost", "status": "candidate", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "ghost", "title": "Ghost", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Soul and Psyche", "sense_count": 0, "furniture_count": 37, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "1_bake-kujira", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Japanese coastal tales tell of this ghostly skeletal whale surrounded by ghost fish." }, { "id": "2_la_llorona", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "La Llorona's story transcends mere ghost tales, embodying complex themes of guilt, punishment, and the consequences of one's actions." }, { "id": "g1_pontianak", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Malay and Indonesian folklore, the Pontianak is the vengeful ghost of a woman who died in pregnancy or childbirth." }, { "id": "g1_yuki-onna", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Some accounts describe her as a ghost or the spirit of a woman who died in the snow, while others treat her as a nature spirit or yokai in her own right, unconnected to any specific human death." }, { "id": "g2_ma_da", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Vietnamese folklore, Ma Da is the vengeful ghost of a person who drowned, bound to the river or pond where it died until it can lure a living substitute to drown in its place." }, { "id": "g2_preta", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Buddhist cosmology, the Preta (\"hungry ghost\") is a tormented spirit reborn into one of the six realms of existence, driven by insatiable craving into a body that can never be satisfied." }, { "id": "g2_vetala", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Rather than a body of its own, the Vetala requires a dead host, taking possession of a cadaver and using it as a vehicle to move, speak, and act in the world, which sets it apart from simple ghosts or reanimated bodies acting on their own." }, { "id": "g5_plat_eye", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The tradition sets it apart from the broader category of \"haints,\" restless ghosts in general, treating the Plat-Eye instead as a specific, named kind of apparition with its own recognizable behaviour and its own reputation." } ] }, { "slug": "ginger", "name": "ginger", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Ginger is a warming spice and folk remedy associated with digestion, toothache, stimulation, and aphrodisiac potency.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "ginger", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "giraffe", "name": "Giraffe", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The giraffe is treated here as an acacia-eating animal associated with speed; the other citation merely indexes its appearance in Bantu narratives.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "giraffe", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "glamour", "name": "Glamour", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Glamour is a fairy enchantment that alters perception, concealing reality or casting an attractive illusion; the term derives from Scottish forms of gramarye.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "glamour", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "glass", "name": "Glass", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Glass denotes purity, virginity, revelation, and transparent passage of divine light, but also abstraction and fragile, short-lived beauty.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "glass", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "glass", "title": "Glass", "world": "Human World", "sub": "House and Home", "sense_count": 6, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "glove", "name": "Glove", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The glove denotes power, protection, noble rank, good faith, purity, and honorable challenge; concealing or removing it changes the meaning toward secrecy or respect.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "glove", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "glow-worm", "name": "Glow-worm", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The glow-worm denotes earthbound starlight, dawn’s approach, perseverance, industry, and beauty; its appearance also served as weather lore.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "glow-worm", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-goat", "name": "Goat", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The goat denotes untamed lust and fertility, sacred to Pan and Dionysus, nurturing as milk-giver and driven out as bearer of a people's sins.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "goat", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "goat", "title": "Goat", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Domestic Animals", "sense_count": 22, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "2_bokkenrijders", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From Dutch folklore, Bokkenrijders are ghostly bandits that ride on flying goats." }, { "id": "2_faun", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Roman mythology, Fauns are half-human, half-goat creatures." }, { "id": "g2_aisha_qandisha", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Moroccan and Amazigh (Berber) folklore, Aisha Qandisha is a shapeshifting jinniya who appears as a beautiful woman but conceals goat or camel hooves beneath her skirts, luring and dominating the men she encounters." }, { "id": "g4_amalthaea", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Amalthaea is the goat who suckled the infant Zeus hidden in a Cretan cave, and whose broken horn became the cornucopia that pours out whatever its holder wishes." }, { "id": "g6_urisk", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The urisk is a half-goat, half-human solitary fairy of Highland waterfalls — hideous enough to frighten mortals away, and desperately lonely because of it." }, { "id": "g7_goayr_heddagh", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "A vast goat that haunts the lonely roads of the Isle of Man and waits for travellers caught out after dark." } ] }, { "slug": "goblet", "name": "Goblet", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The goblet denotes festivity, fellowship, erotic receptivity, and containment; myth also makes a golden cup Hercules’s vessel across the ocean.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "goblet", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "gods", "name": "gods", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Gods are worshipped powers governing natural or abstract domains, represented as human, animal, vegetal, or formless; Mesoamerican categories resist simple European equivalence.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "gods", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "gog-and-magog", "name": "Gog and Magog", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Gog and Magog are legendary British giants, captured by Brutus’s followers and stationed or chained at gates.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "gog-and-magog", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "golden-bough", "name": "Golden Bough", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The Golden Bough denotes safe return from the underworld and immortality, recalling the sacred branch Aeneas carried on his journey among the dead.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "golden-bough", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "goldfinch", "name": "Goldfinch", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The goldfinch denotes gallantry and fertility, while Christian art connects its thorn-eating habits with Christ’s Passion and saving work.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "goldfinch", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "gong", "name": "gong", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The gong is treated here as a characteristically Eastern religious instrument, contrasted with the conch in Yeats’s vision of Irish Christianity.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "gong", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-gossip", "name": "Gossip", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Gossip denotes talk that binds its sharers in borrowed intimacy, named for the godparents who attended a birth, and damaging or informative by turns.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "essay", "domain": { "id": "gossip", "title": "Gossip", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Fundamentals of Work and Society", "sense_count": 0, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "gotham", "name": "Gotham", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Gotham denotes proverbial folly masking practical cunning: its villagers feigned madness through absurd acts to discourage an expensive royal visit.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "gotham", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-grail", "name": "Grail", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The Grail denotes the inexhaustible vessel and goal of a long quest, healing the wounded king and restoring his waste land to fruitfulness.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "grail", "census": { "class": "object-being", "status": "candidate", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "grail", "title": "Grail", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Soul and Psyche", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "bridger-grape", "name": "Grape", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The grape denotes fruitfulness crushed into a new substance, carrying the double transformation of fruit into wine and drinker into the god's intoxicated devotee.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "grape", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "grape", "title": "Grape", "world": "Plant World", "sub": "Magical Plants and Flowers", "sense_count": 6, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "grasshopper", "name": "Grasshopper", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The grasshopper denotes timidity or improvidence in some traditions, but abundance, noble ancestry, summer pleasure, virtue, and good fortune in others.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "grasshopper", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-gray", "name": "Gray", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Grey denotes the mixture sitting between every opposite, unassertive yet present in all colour, standing for age, mourning, leaden mood and hard-won serenity.", "attestations": 1, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "domain": { "id": "gray", "title": "Gray", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Color", "sense_count": 3, "furniture_count": 36, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "domain_slug", "creatures": [ { "id": "2_banshee", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Often described as a pale woman with long, flowing hair that can be white, gray, or in some accounts, red, she is typically seen wearing a gray cloak over a green dress." }, { "id": "g1_nisse", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "He is typically described as a small, bearded old man no taller than a child, dressed in gray homespun clothing and a red or gray pointed cap, with a temperament that is gruff, easily offended, and deeply particular about order and tradition." } ] }, { "slug": "great-bear", "name": "Great Bear", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The Great Bear denotes a powerful northern celestial presence, invoked alongside sun and moon for release from darkness; other citations merely index it.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "great-bear", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-great-cats", "name": "Great Cats", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The great cats denote predatory magnificence and noble authority, lion, tiger, leopard and jaguar alike, guarding thresholds and lending their form to the shape-shifting shaman.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "great-cats", "title": "Great Cats", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Wild Animals", "sense_count": 3, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "green", "name": "GREEN", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Green denotes life, spring, fertility, hope, resurrection, and fairy power, yet also inexperience, jealousy, decay, death, or ill luck across traditions.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "green", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "green", "title": "Green", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Color", "sense_count": 26, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "grey", "name": "GREY", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Grey denotes neutrality, humility, mourning, age, wisdom, concealment, and renunciation, joining opposites while also suggesting depression, vagueness, or bodily death.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "grey", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "greyhound", "name": "Greyhound", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The greyhound denotes speed, hunting, loyalty, and noble pursuit, with mythic associations linking it to sacred kingship and the moon-goddess’s chase.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "greyhound", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "grian", "name": "Grian", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Grian is an Irish solar goddess whose name means sun, associated with Ireland’s mythic division and possibly preserved in place-names.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "grian", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "guinea-pig", "name": "Guinea Pig", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The guinea pig denotes experimentation or comic absurdity in European imagery, but Chaco myths alternatively cast it as a thief who brings fire.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "guinea-pig", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "guitar", "name": "guitar", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The guitar denotes erotic union through its body and neck, love-song, artistic harmony, and, in folklore, witchcraft or a pact with the Devil.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "guitar", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "gull", "name": "Gull", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Sources divide Gull between a seafaring bird sacred to lunar goddesses and a named malevolent fairy who deceives sleepers, steals infants, and leaves changelings.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "gull", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-gun", "name": "Gun", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The gun denotes lethal power concentrated at a distance, instrument of protection and slaughter alike, whose reach has outrun mastery of the impulse to fire.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "gun", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "gun", "title": "Gun", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Tools and Other Objects", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "guru", "name": "Guru", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Guru here is a named giant of fairy tale who offers protection under taboos concerning his name, the cross, and occupation of a house.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "guru", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "gypsum", "name": "Gypsum", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Gypsum denotes ritual purification, depersonalization, and disguise in Greek initiation myth; a Sumerian source instead names Gypsum among Ninurta’s slain monsters.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "gypsum", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "haddock", "name": "haddock", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The haddock’s dark marks are attributed either to Saint Peter or the Devil, while fishermen’s lore treats burning its bones as unlucky.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "haddock", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "hag", "name": "Hag", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "A hag is a crone-shaped witch or supernatural figure linked with nightmares, weather, landscape-making, malevolence, and occasionally transformed beauty or benevolence.", "attestations": 5, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "hag", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-hair", "name": "Hair", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Hair denotes vitality and the state of the head it grows from, ordered or wild, shorn in renunciation, and red for ardour and suspicion alike.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "hair", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "hair", "title": "Hair", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 5, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "halloween", "name": "Halloween", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Halloween denotes the Celtic year’s turning into winter, when order loosens, the dead approach the living, and witches or ancestral powers become active.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "halloween", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "hamlet", "name": "Hamlet", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Hamlet denotes either Amleth, the Danish prince who feigned madness to avenge his father, or a modern Californian lake-monster report.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "hamlet", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "hammer", "name": "hammer", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The hammer denotes formative force, creation, thunder, justice, vengeance, sovereign power, and divine craftsmanship, especially when paired with the receptive anvil.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "hammer", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "hammer", "title": "Hammer", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Tools and Other Objects", "sense_count": 8, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "denotation_neighbours": [ { "slug": "anvil", "evidence": "The hammer denotes formative force, creation, thunder, justice, vengeance, sovereign power, and divine craftsmanship, especially when paired with the receptive anvil." } ] }, { "slug": "bridger-hand", "name": "Hand", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The hand denotes agency and the reach of consciousness, which makes, blesses, grasps and destroys, so its loss figures a will barred from acting.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "hand", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "hand", "title": "Hand", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "bridger-hanging", "name": "Hanging", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Hanging denotes suspension between earth and sky, at once shameful execution and sacrificial ordeal by which Odin won the runes from the world tree.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "hanging", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "hanging", "title": "Hanging", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Sickness and Death", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "harp", "name": "harp", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The harp denotes passage to the otherworld, death, seasonal change, and sacred music; Celtic tradition particularly associates it with Dagda and Ireland.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "harp", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "harp", "title": "Harp/Lyre", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Sound", "sense_count": 7, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "hart", "name": "Hart", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The hart denotes solitude, purity, grace, resurrection, and spiritual longing; trampling a serpent makes it an image of sacred victory over evil.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "hart", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "hat", "name": "Hat", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The hat denotes authority, social rank, protected thought, and assumed personality; changing or removing it signals altered belief, homage, freedom, or concealment.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "hat", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "hat", "title": "Hat/Headdress", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Tools and Other Objects", "sense_count": 6, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "hawthorn", "name": "hawthorn", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Hawthorn denotes fairy presence, marriage, virginity, fertility, and magical protection, while its blossoms and May customs bind erotic, seasonal, and apotropaic meanings.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "hawthorn", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "hay", "name": "hay", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Hay denotes luck when encountered head-on, bad omen from behind, and, in poetic symbolism, sexuality, harvest abundance, or a dry central mound.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "hay", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "hazel", "name": "hazel", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Hazel denotes hidden wisdom, inspiration, divination, love, peace, and protective magic; its nuts, wands, sacred groves, and dowsing uses carry these powers.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "hazel", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "head", "name": "Head", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The head denotes mind, soul, life-force, authority, fertility, and cosmic unity, while a Philippine tale literalizes Head as the name of a limbless son.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "head", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "head", "title": "Head", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 14, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "bridger-heart", "name": "Heart", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The heart denotes the seat of feeling and of the soul, weighed for a life's truth, broken by love, and offered as the vital sacrifice.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "heart", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "heart", "title": "Heart", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 6, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "2_chenoo", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From Native American folklore, Chenoo is a cannibalistic ice giant with a heart made of ice." } ] }, { "slug": "hearth", "name": "hearth", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The hearth denotes home, nourishment, kinship, sacred center, and communication with gods or dead, uniting receptive earth with generative fire.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "hearth", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "hearth", "title": "Hearth", "world": "Human World", "sub": "House and Home", "sense_count": 13, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "heart-s-ease", "name": "heart's ease", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Heart’s-ease is the pansy and denotes peace of mind; the name also belonged to a popular Elizabethan tune.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "heart-s-ease", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "heaven", "name": "Heaven", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Heaven denotes spirit, divinity, and the usually paternal principle opposite material earth; traditions picture it as blue, round, domed, starry, or architecturally vaulted.", "attestations": 6, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "heaven", "census": { "class": "place", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "hedgehog", "name": "Hedgehog", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The hedgehog denotes self-defense and cunning, but Christian imagery makes it a soul-thieving evil, while Sumerian tradition associates it with Ishtar and motherhood.", "attestations": 5, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "hedgehog", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "heel", "name": "Heel", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The heel denotes the hidden weakness of otherwise invulnerable heroes, yet the same body part can crush serpents and represent victory over evil.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "heel", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "heliotrope", "name": "Heliotrope", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Heliotrope denotes solar devotion and enduring love, reflecting the flower’s legendary turning toward Helios and its association with Apollo and Clytie.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "heliotrope", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "hellespont", "name": "Hellespont", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The Hellespont is the strait named for Helle’s fall from the golden ram, later associated with Leander’s nightly swim to Hero.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "hellespont", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "helmet", "name": "Helmet", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The helmet denotes protection, preservation, salvation, warriorhood, and hidden thought; traditions also associate it with Hades’ invisibility and divine or heroic attributes.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "helmet", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "helmet", "title": "Helmet", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Tools and Other Objects", "sense_count": 12, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "hen", "name": "hen", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The hen denotes maternity, procreation, providence, and perseverance, while black or crowing hens can signify diabolism or feminine dominance.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "hen", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "hen", "title": "Hen/ Rooster", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Wild Animals", "sense_count": 9, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "heracles", "name": "Heracles", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Heracles is the mighty son of Zeus and Alcmena; another reference invokes his servitude in a discussion of cosmic cycles.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "heracles", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "herb", "name": "herb", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The herb denotes healing and rural life, especially magical vegetation capable of restoring the dead, though some cited passages concern unrelated figures.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "caveats": [ "homonym" ], "registry_id": "herb", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "hermaphrodite", "name": "Hermaphrodite", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The hermaphrodite denotes androgynous creation, the integration of opposites, and a primordial wholeness imagined as self-sufficient unity.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "hermaphrodite", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "heron", "name": "Heron", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The heron denotes dawn, renewal, vigilance, and watery stillness, while Bororo myth makes Heron the keeper who releases night.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "heron", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "creatures": [ { "id": "2_bennu", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Egyptian mythology, Bennu is a heron associated with creation and rebirth." } ] }, { "slug": "herring", "name": "Herring", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The herring carries fish sexuality and a Celtic taboo surrounding the shoal-leading Royal Herring; heraldry also uses it as a family-name charge.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "herring", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "hibiscus", "name": "Hibiscus", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Hibiscus denotes delicate, proud beauty in one source; another names Hibiscus as a buried great god defining a mythic landscape.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "hibiscus", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "hill", "name": "hill", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The hill denotes elevation, worship, approach to heaven, and ancestral burial, while Celtic tradition links hills with fairy mounds and sacred sites.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "hill", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "hind", "name": "Hind", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The hind denotes grace, keen hearing, timidity, purity, and chastity; Greek myth singles out the golden-horned Cerynitian hind captured by Heracles.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "hind", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "hippocrene", "name": "Hippocrene", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Hippocrene is the Muses’ spring on Helicon, said to rise from Pegasus’s hoofprint and confer poetic inspiration through its waters.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "hippocrene", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "hippopotamus", "name": "Hippopotamus", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The hippopotamus represents amphibious maternal power and strength; Egyptian traditions divide it between Taweret’s protection and Set’s violent virility.", "attestations": 5, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "hippopotamus", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "creatures": [ { "id": "2_ammit", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "In ancient Egyptian lore, Ammit is a fearsome creature with the head of a crocodile, the torso of a lion, and the hindquarters of a hippopotamus." }, { "id": "2_behemoth", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Biblical tradition, Behemoth is an enormous, primordial beast resembling a hippopotamus." } ] }, { "slug": "hoard", "name": "hoard", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "A hoard denotes hidden treasure; Celtic bog deposits may represent valuables concealed from raiders or sacrificial offerings made during crises.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "hoard", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "hog", "name": "Hog", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The hog signifies impurity, appetite, sloth, and sensual degradation; “Sea Hog” instead names an early-modern marine monster, perhaps a walrus.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "hog", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "hole", "name": "Hole", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The hole denotes void, feminine fertility, initiation, and a passage to other worlds, serving as both earthly depth and celestial gateway.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "hole", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "hollow", "name": "Hollow", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Hollow denotes the cave-like maternal unconscious, an inverse mountain and imagined abode of death; folklore separately redirects “Hollow” to troll traditions.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "caveats": [ "homonym" ], "registry_id": "hollow", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "holly", "name": "holly", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Holly denotes joy, health, luck, and protection, joining Saturnalian solar associations with Christian imagery of Christ’s thorns, blood, and Passion.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "holly", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "hollyhock", "name": "hollyhock", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Hollyhock denotes ambition and fecundity through a freely reproducing flower that can overreach and fall; the second citation is misaligned.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "hollyhock", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-honeybee", "name": "Honeybee", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The honeybee denotes the patient alchemy turning sunlight and flower into gold, its ordered hive ruled by a queen long linked to the great mother.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "essay", "domain": { "id": "honeybee", "title": "Honeybee", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Arachnids and Insects", "sense_count": 0, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "hood", "name": "Hood", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The hood denotes invisibility, death, withdrawal, thought, and spiritual detachment, but also blindness or narrowed vision; it accompanies underworld and waning-sun figures.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "hood", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "denotation_neighbours": [ { "slug": "invisibility", "evidence": "The hood denotes invisibility, death, withdrawal, thought, and spiritual detachment, but also blindness or narrowed vision; it accompanies underworld and waning-sun figures." } ] }, { "slug": "hook", "name": "Hook", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The hook is ambivalent: it attracts love and salvation yet also signifies captivity, punishment, and doom, with Osiris emphasizing attraction.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "hook", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "hornet", "name": "Hornet", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The hornet denotes tormenting divine punishment or discouragement of enemies; heraldry also uses it as a conventional insect charge.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "hornet", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-horse", "name": "Horse", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The horse denotes harnessed striving power, mount of gods, sun and sea alike, carrying the dead as psychopomp and the living into their conquests.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "horse", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "horse", "title": "Horse", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Wild Animals", "sense_count": 53, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "1_kelpie", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "A Scottish water spirit that takes the form of a horse." }, { "id": "1_pegasus", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From Greek mythology, this divine winged horse springs forth from Medusa's blood." }, { "id": "1_unicorn", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Across various myths, this horse-like creature with a single, spiraling horn is renowned for its purity and grace." }, { "id": "1_valkyrie", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Clad in gleaming armor and often depicted riding winged horses through the sky, Valkyries are beings of immense power and grace." }, { "id": "2_ankou", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Ankou's most distinctive feature is its eerie mode of transport: a creaking, spectral carriage drawn by ghostly horses." }, { "id": "2_arion", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Greek myths, Arion is an immortal horse with the ability to speak." }, { "id": "2_ceffyl_dŵr", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Welsh folklore, Ceffyl Dŵr is a water horse with an ethereal, shifting form." }, { "id": "2_each_uisge", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From Scottish folklore, Each Uisge is a water horse." }, { "id": "2_long_ma", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From Chinese myths, Long Ma is a dragon-horse with scales and fiery manes." }, { "id": "2_mallt-y-nos", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Originating from Welsh folklore, Mallt-y-Nos is the Night Mare, a spectral horse." }, { "id": "2_pegacorn", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Pegacorn is a mythical creature, combining the traits of a unicorn and a Pegasus, depicted as a horse with wings and a horn." }, { "id": "2_sleipnir", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Sleipnir is a legendary eight-legged horse from Norse mythology, known for its incredible speed and strength, being the steed of Odin." }, { "id": "g3_cabyll_ushtey", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Cabyll-Ushtey is a shapeshifting Manx water-horse that lures people and livestock to the water's edge before tearing them apart." }, { "id": "g3_tylwyth_teg", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Accounts describe the Tylwyth Teg as capable of riding out in a fairy rade, their horses hung with jingling bells, and some tellings associate the sound of the bells with a general fondness for music rather than any single explained purpose." }, { "id": "g4_bucephalus", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Bucephalus enters the tradition as a horse nobody could mount." }, { "id": "g5_aonbarr", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Aonbarr is the magical horse of the sea-god Manannán mac Lir in Irish tradition, able to run over the ocean as easily as over land while guaranteeing that whoever rides it comes to no harm." }, { "id": "g5_kioh_twan", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Kioh Twan, an older transliteration of the beast now usually called Jiaoduan, is a green, deer-bodied unicorn of Chinese legend credited with a horse's tail, a single nasal horn, human speech, and the power to cross vast distances in a single day." }, { "id": "g6_buggane", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Buggane is a vicious Manx shape-shifting goblin, identified by some with the island's water horse, famous for haunting waterfalls, carrying off a girl, and tearing the roof from St Trinian's church." }, { "id": "g6_colt_pixy", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Colt Pixy is a horse-shaped sprite of southern England that neighs to lead travelers and their horses into bogs, and in Somerset stands guard over apple orchards." }, { "id": "g6_wihwin", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The wihwin is a fanged, amphibious sea horse of the Miskito Coast that leaves the water in the hot dry season to hunt people in the hills, returning with the rains." }, { "id": "g7_bayard", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The horse of the Four Sons of Aymon, who grew to carry all four, understood speech, and broke the stone Charlemagne drowned him with." } ] }, { "slug": "horse-radish", "name": "horse-radish", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Horse-radish signifies Passover’s bitter memory of Egyptian bondage, while folk medicine applies it as a poultice for toothache and headache.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "horse-radish", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-house", "name": "House/Home", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The house denotes shelter and belonging, modelled on the womb and read as a figure of the body and the cosmos, with homelessness its dereliction.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "house", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "house", "title": "House/Home", "world": "Human World", "sub": "House and Home", "sense_count": 4, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "bridger-hunting", "name": "Hunting", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Hunting denotes pursuit of elusive quarry through danger and isolation, where hunter and hunted share a hidden kinship, and the mark is struck.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "hunting", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "hunting", "title": "Hunting", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Fundamentals of Work and Society", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "hurdy-gurdy", "name": "hurdy-gurdy", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The hurdy-gurdy is a musical instrument associated here with Nero’s torment in hell; the other citation does not discuss it.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "hurdy-gurdy", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "hut", "name": "Hut", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The hut denotes shelter and tree-like protection, especially the temporary Sukkot dwelling that recalls wilderness life.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "hut", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "hyssop", "name": "Hyssop", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Hyssop denotes purging, purification, sacrifice, and protection, linking Passover sprinkling with Christian penitence, humility, baptism, and recovered innocence.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "hyssop", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "ibeji", "name": "Ibeji", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Ibeji is Yoruba for twins and their god, also naming adult-form memorial carvings of deceased twins tended with offerings.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "ibeji", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "ibex", "name": "Ibex", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The ibex is sacred to Set and Reshep and shares gazelle symbolism; its great serrated horns also supply bows and heraldic form.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "ibex", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "ibis", "name": "Ibis", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The ibis denotes the soul, aspiration, perseverance, dawn, and Thoth, combining solar serpent-destruction with lunar water associations.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "ibis", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "icarus", "name": "Icarus", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Icarus represents intellect escaping the material maze yet rebelling beyond its means; another tradition merely records an Icarus buried by Heracles.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "caveats": [ "homonym" ], "registry_id": "icarus", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "ice", "name": "Ice", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Ice denotes winter, death, rigid abstraction, frozen potential, heartlessness, brittleness, and impermanence; melting signifies emotional softening.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "ice", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "immortality", "name": "immortality", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Immortality denotes escape from death, linked here to absorbing divine generative power and, in Mesopotamia, the stories of Adapa, Gilgamesh, and Ziusura.", "attestations": 5, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "immortality", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "creatures": [ { "id": "2_moon_rabbit", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "It symbolizes immortality and is believed to concoct the Elixir of Life, bridging the celestial and the terrestrial in its lunar abode." } ] }, { "slug": "imp", "name": "Imp", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The imp signifies disorder and torment in Christian art; Puritan folklore recast fairies as devilish offshoots, unlike pre-Christian Celtic belief.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "imp", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "incantations", "name": "incantations", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Incantations are ritual words used in magic, sorcery, divination, and inspired Celtic practices, especially against or involving demons and monsters.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "incantations", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "incense", "name": "incense", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Incense denotes divine homage, purification, rising prayer or soul, and protection, while Babylonian rites used its smoke in sacrifice, magic, and medicine.", "attestations": 5, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "incense", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "incense", "title": "Incense", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Rituals and Sacred Systems", "sense_count": 18, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "incest", "name": "Incest", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Mythic incest denotes primordial identity and humanity’s first propagation; alchemy recasts it as return to the matrix before regeneration.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "incest", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "incest", "title": "Incest", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 7, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "india", "name": "India", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "India is a real place cast in these sources as a land of fabulous wealth and spices and a setting for Dionysian and Heraclean narratives.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "india", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "ineffable-name", "name": "Ineffable Name", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The Ineffable Name is a sacred divine utterance whose power enables Lilith’s flight and authenticates the promised redeemer of Israel.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "ineffable-name", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "initiation", "name": "Initiation", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Initiation denotes transition through symbolic death, darkness, and trial into rebirth, illumination, and acceptance within adult or spiritual society.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "initiation", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "denotation_neighbours": [ { "slug": "darkness", "evidence": "Initiation denotes transition through symbolic death, darkness, and trial into rebirth, illumination, and acceptance within adult or spiritual society." } ] }, { "slug": "interpretatio-romana", "name": "Interpretatio Romana", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Interpretatio Romana is the uncertain practice of mapping Germanic or Celtic divinities onto Roman equivalents, whether by Romans or local worshippers.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "interpretatio-romana", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "intersection", "name": "Intersection", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The intersection denotes conjunction, communication, and a change-making center where opposites meet; crossed forms may ritually seek reversal, healing, or fertility.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "intersection", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "inversion", "name": "Inversion", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Inversion denotes opposites generating one another—death producing life, for example—through symbols such as the hourglass, inverted tree, double spiral, or X.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "inversion", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "invisibility", "name": "Invisibility", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Invisibility denotes death or magical power and is conventionally represented by a cloak, mantle, veil, or hood.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "invisibility", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "denotation_neighbours": [ { "slug": "cloak", "evidence": "Invisibility denotes death or magical power and is conventionally represented by a cloak, mantle, veil, or hood." }, { "slug": "hood", "evidence": "Invisibility denotes death or magical power and is conventionally represented by a cloak, mantle, veil, or hood." } ] }, { "slug": "ion", "name": "Ion", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Ion is a Greek ancestral figure, born to Creusa and variously fathered by Xuthus or Apollo; one source calls him an Achaean forefather.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "ion", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-iris", "name": "Iris", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The iris denotes light, purity and royal power, named for the rainbow goddess who carried messages between the gods and the world below.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "creature", "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "iris", "census": { "class": "deity", "status": "canon", "canon_id": "g5_iris" }, "canon_creature": "g5_iris", "domain": { "id": "iris", "title": "Iris", "world": "Plant World", "sub": "Magical Plants and Flowers", "sense_count": 6, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "iron", "name": "Iron", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Iron denotes meteoric power, hardness, durability, strength, and constancy, but also bondage, cruelty, war, evil, slavery, and a dark final age.", "attestations": 6, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "iron", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "creatures": [ { "id": "1_hrökkáll", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "This eel from Icelandic folklore, with iron-hard scales and razor-sharp fins, secretes a corrosive poison to burrow through the earth." }, { "id": "2_abaasy", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Yakut myths, the Abaasy are iron-toothed demons." }, { "id": "2_baba_yaga", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "She is typically depicted as an ancient, wizened crone with iron teeth and a nose so long it touches the ceiling when she lies down." }, { "id": "2_black_annis", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From English folklore, Black Annis is a blue-faced hag with iron claws." }, { "id": "2_oni", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Wielding massive iron clubs called kanabō, Oni are renowned for their incredible strength and destructive capabilities." }, { "id": "g2_redcap", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Accounts describe it as a squat, wizened old man with long, wiry hair, taloned hands tipped with claws, teeth like fangs, and eyes that burn with a fierce red light; it is said to wear iron boots and carry a pikestaff or similar weapon, and in some tellings it possesses unnatural strength despite its small stature." }, { "id": "g5_og", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "He is described as the last survivor of the Rephaim, an old race of giants, and the text points to an iron bedstead of extraordinary length preserved afterward at Rabbah as physical evidence of his size." }, { "id": "g6_fachan", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "An Irish manuscript account of the same misshapen kind arms it terribly, with a thick iron flail-club in its skinny hand carrying twenty chains, and fifty apples on every chain, every one of them capable of harm." } ] }, { "slug": "bridger-island", "name": "Island", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The island denotes land set apart by water, refuge or exile, the blessed honeyed shore or a split-off portion of mind kept from the whole.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "island", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "island", "title": "Island", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Earth", "sense_count": 8, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "italy", "name": "Italy", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Italy is a place associated with the bull-name Italus and Greek settlement, while English literature imagines it as refuge, culture, pleasure, and moral danger.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "italy", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "ivory", "name": "Ivory", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Ivory denotes purity, incorruptibility, moral strength, hardness, and inaccessible femininity, especially through the Marian image of an ivory tower.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "ivory", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "jacinth", "name": "jacinth", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Jacinth is treated as a jewel, inheriting associations with light, hidden truth, wisdom, and the soul refined into divine brilliance; the other citation is misaligned.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "jacinth", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "jack", "name": "jack", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Jack denotes the proverbial common servant or ordinary man, often paired with Jill; the other citation actually discusses the jackal.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "jack", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "jackal", "name": "Jackal", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The jackal denotes night, scavenging, and lunar death; Egyptian tradition links it to Anubis’s guidance of souls, while Buddhist usage signifies entrenched evil.", "attestations": 5, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "jackal", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "creatures": [ { "id": "g1_anubis", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In ancient Egyptian religion, this jackal-headed god presides over mummification and the weighing of the dead's hearts." } ] }, { "slug": "jack-and-the-beanstalk", "name": "Jack and the Beanstalk", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Jack and the Beanstalk recasts theft from a giant as seizing divine fertility, rain, sun, and wind, with the stalk as world-tree.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "jack-and-the-beanstalk", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "jack-o-lantern", "name": "jack-o'-lantern", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The jack-o’-lantern is either a deceptive corpse-light or wandering soul that misleads travelers, or the later Halloween candlelit pumpkin.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "creature" ], "registry_id": "jack-o-lantern", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "canon", "canon_id": "2_will-o'-the-wisp" }, "canon_creature": "2_will-o'-the-wisp" }, { "slug": "jade", "name": "jade", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Jade denotes purity, virtue, balanced cosmic powers, immortality, and good fortune, while Mesoamerican sources emphasize jadeite as a prized greenstone.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "jade", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "creatures": [ { "id": "g4_chalchihuitlicue", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Chalchihuitlicue is the jade-skirted goddess of lakes, rivers and standing water in Central Mexican tradition, consort of the rain god, who presided over a former world that ended in flood." } ] }, { "slug": "japa", "name": "Japa", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Japa is the disciplined repetition of a mantra, associated here with mantra practice; the second citation is unrelated.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "caveats": [ "homonym" ], "registry_id": "japa", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "jar", "name": "Jar", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The jar denotes feminine receptivity, rain and plenty, burial, and underworld storage; Buddhist and Egyptian forms add spiritual triumph and protected remains.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "jar", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "jasmine", "name": "Jasmine", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Jasmine denotes delicate beauty, fragrance, love, grace, memory, separation, femininity, attraction, heavenly joy, and the Virgin Mary.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "jasmine", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "jasper", "name": "jasper", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Jasper denotes joy, wisdom, praise, constancy, consolation, courage, and alertness, while its jewel status adds hidden truth and spiritual refinement.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "jasper", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "jaw", "name": "Jaw", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The jaw denotes power and prophetic vitality, while monstrous jaws mark hell’s gate or a polar barrier crossed on the path to enlightenment.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "jaw", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "jay", "name": "Jay", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The jay denotes mischief, ill luck, scorn, deception, gaudy vanity, foolishness, and imitation.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "jay", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "jerusalem", "name": "Jerusalem", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Jerusalem here denotes the heavenly city: a twelve-gated, all-embracing paradise where salvation, cosmic completion, and spiritual unity become fixed.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "jerusalem", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "jester", "name": "Jester", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The jester denotes an inverted or substitute sacred king, sacrifice displaced into comic abnormality, and the discrepancy between reality and representation.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "jester", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "joan", "name": "Joan", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Joan is a woman’s name demoted from royal usage to maidservants and sexual insult; fairy mock christenings use it to foretell a 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"Lameness marks sacred kings and imperfect smith-creators, while its limp echoes lightning’s zigzag and can carry castration or sexual-power associations.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "lameness", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "lammas", "name": "Lammas", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Lammas is the August first loaf-mass and first-fruit harvest feast, also linked with Lughnasa, rent day, witch gatherings, and Lugh’s mourning.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "lammas", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "lamp", "name": "lamp", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The lamp denotes divine presence, life, wisdom, guidance, remembrance, and Nusku; a duplicated lantern reference stresses merely individual, transient knowledge.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", 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"register": "symbol", "gloss": "The citations do not define a symbol called “last”: one is a line-break fragment in myrtle’s calendar symbolism, while the other recounts a drowned heroine.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "last", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "laughter", "name": "laughter", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Laughter denotes Aphrodite, joy, triumph, challenge, disdain, trickery, and mystery, yet excessive or untimely laughter can be read as ominous.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "laughter", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "laurel", "name": "laurel", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Laurel denotes triumph, victory, peace, eternity, immortality, chastity, Apollo and Daphne, and the Christian martyr’s crown.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], 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"Lead denotes weight, density, inertia, ignorance, death, and Saturn’s unregenerate state, while alchemy treats it as matter awaiting transformation." } ] }, { "slug": "leaf", "name": "leaf", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The leaf denotes human generations, fertility, growth, renewal, and hope; dead leaves signify decay, while leafy crowns confer divinity or victory.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "leaf", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "leek", "name": "leek", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The leek denotes vitality, sexuality, eloquence, victory, and protection, linking lightning and Aeddon with Saint David and Welsh identity.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "leek", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "left", "name": "Left", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The left usually denotes darkness, illegitimacy, lunar inwardness, and the past, but Chinese tradition honors its receptive yin quality.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "left", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "leg", "name": "Leg", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The leg denotes elevation, foundation, motion, energy, victory, solar splendor, and sexuality; a single leg may represent an axis, moon, or phallus.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "leg", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-legs", "name": "Legs", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Legs denote upright support and the individual journey of a life, answering the Sphinx's riddle by their number, and hobbled to signify conquest.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "legs", "title": "Legs", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "lemon", "name": "lemon", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Lemon denotes sour sharpness and grief or barrenness, yet also enthusiasm, pleasant thought, discretion, faithful love, harvest, and forbidden knowledge.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "lemon", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "leo", "name": "Leo", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Leo usually means the fiery fifth zodiacal sign—solar will, creativity, heat, and vitality—but one source instead names Lycaon’s son.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "leo", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "leopard", "name": "Leopard", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The leopard denotes ferocity, bravery, vigilance, and swiftness; traditions variously associate it with Satan, Osiris, Dionysus, war, or heraldic activity.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "leopard", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "lethe", "name": "Lethe", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Lethe is forgetfulness personified as Strife’s offspring and the underworld river whose waters erase memory of previous lives.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "lethe", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "letter", "name": "letter", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The letter denotes communication through charged writing, often ominous with betrayal or death; folklore uses letters in love, reply, and secrecy rituals.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "letter", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "lettuce", "name": "lettuce", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Lettuce signifies lunar coolness, chastity, spring redemption, and Egyptian fertility, while its link to Adonis emphasizes life’s brevity.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "lettuce", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "li", "name": "Li", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Li means the fiery Chinese trigram of brightness, purification, and outward consciousness, but another source uses li for mature hornless dragons.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "li", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "libation", "name": "libation", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Libation is ritual liquid poured for gods, sacrifice, covenant, or the dead, ranging from blood-replacing wine to Mesopotamian holy water.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "libation", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "denotation_neighbours": [ { "slug": "wine", "evidence": "Libation is ritual liquid poured for gods, sacrifice, covenant, or the dead, ranging from blood-replacing wine to Mesopotamian holy water." } ] }, { "slug": "libra", "name": "Libra", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Libra is the seventh zodiacal sign, whose scales denote cosmic, psychic, moral, and natural-spiritual equilibrium and later became linked with justice.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "libra", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "denotation_neighbours": [ { "slug": "scales", "evidence": "Libra is the seventh zodiacal sign, whose scales denote cosmic, psychic, moral, and natural-spiritual equilibrium and later became linked with justice." } ] }, { "slug": "light", "name": "light", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Light denotes divine manifestation, cosmic creation, life, truth, direct knowledge, goodness, and liberation, dispelling darkness and restoring primordial reality.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "light", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "denotation_neighbours": [ { "slug": "darkness", "evidence": "Light denotes divine manifestation, cosmic creation, life, truth, direct knowledge, goodness, and liberation, dispelling darkness and restoring primordial reality." } ] }, { "slug": "lightning", "name": "lightning", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Lightning denotes divine power or wrath, revelation, sudden enlightenment, fertility, destruction, and initiation, represented by zigzags and storm-god weapons.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "lightning", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "lightning", "title": "Lightning", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Air — Wind and Weather", "sense_count": 17, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "denotation_neighbours": [ { "slug": "storm", "evidence": "Lightning denotes divine power or wrath, revelation, sudden enlightenment, fertility, destruction, and initiation, represented by zigzags and storm-god weapons." } ], "creatures": [ { "id": "1_yamata_no_orochi", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "This formidable beast is typically depicted as having eight heads and eight tails, each head representing a different elemental force: fire, water, earth, wind, lightning, ice, venom, and spirit." }, { "id": "2_raijū", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "In Japanese mythology, Raijū is a divine beast associated with thunder and lightning, often depicted as a cat, wolf, or weasel enveloped in lightning." } ] }, { "slug": "bridger-lily", "name": "Lily", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The lily denotes pristine purity and queenly divinity, sprung from the milk of heaven, carried at the annunciation and laid on the young dead.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "lily", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "lily", "title": "Lily", "world": "Plant World", "sub": "Magical Plants and Flowers", "sense_count": 4, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "lily-of-the-valley", "name": "lily of the valley", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Lily of the valley denotes sweetness, virginity, humility, Mary, and Christ’s advent as spring’s new life; another citation discusses lilies generally.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "caveats": [ "homonym" ], "registry_id": "lily-of-the-valley", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "linden", "name": "linden", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Linden denotes feminine grace, beauty, happiness, conjugal love, and Germanic community, while its wood, fiber, honey, and tissues serve practical healing.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "linden", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "linen", "name": "Linen", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Linen denotes Christ’s burial shroud, Christian purity and righteousness, the triumphant Church, and the earth aspect of Hebrew vestments.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "linen", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "linga", "name": "LINGA", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The linga denotes Shiva’s masculine generative power, cosmic creation, renewal, spiritual virility, and the world-center, with an earlier Buddhist aniconic use.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "linga", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "lion", "name": "Lion", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The lion is ambivalent: solar majesty, courage, justice, guardianship, and resurrection coexist with lunar maternity, cruelty, war, destructive heat, and death.", "attestations": 6, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "lion", "census": { "class": "creature", "status": "candidate", "canon_id": null }, "creatures": [ { "id": "1_chimera", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "Ancient Greek myths depict this creature as a fire-breathing hybrid with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail." }, { "id": "1_griffin", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "Revered in various mythologies, this legendary creature boasts the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle." }, { "id": "1_manticore", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "Persian legend describes this creature as having a human head, a lion's body, and a scorpion's tail." }, { "id": "1_sphinx", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "In Egyptian and Greek myths, this creature has a human head and a lion's body." }, { "id": "2_ammit", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "In ancient Egyptian lore, Ammit is a fearsome creature with the head of a crocodile, the torso of a lion, and the hindquarters of a hippopotamus." }, { "id": "2_anzû", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "Originating from Mesopotamian myths, Anzû is a lion-headed eagle." }, { "id": "2_barong", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Balinese mythology, Barong is a lion-like creature covered in thick fur." }, { "id": "2_centicore", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "Originating in Persian mythology, Centicore is a creature with the body of a lion, the tail of a scorpion, and a trumpet-like mouth." }, { "id": "2_haetae", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Korean mythology, Haetae is a lion-like creature with a horn." }, { "id": "2_hieracosphinx", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "With its origins in Egyptian mythology, the Hieracosphinx possesses a lion’s body and a hawk’s head, embodying a majestic fusion of power and precision." }, { "id": "2_kirin", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Often described as a chimeric entity, the Kirin typically possesses the body of a deer, adorned with the scales of a dragon, the tail of an ox, and sometimes the mane of a lion." }, { "id": "2_lamassu", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "Found in ancient Assyrian and Babylonian mythology, Lamassu is depicted as a protective deity with a human head, the body of a bull or lion, and the wings of an eagle." }, { "id": "2_luduan", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Chinese mythology, the Luduan captivates with a lion's head, a rhino's horn, a dragon's body, bear paws, fish scales, and an ox's tail." }, { "id": "2_simurgh", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Often described as a peacock-like bird with the head of a dog and the claws of a lion, the Simurgh embodies the harmony of different realms - earth, water, and sky." }, { "id": "g1_pixiu", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "In Chinese folklore and popular belief, the Pixiu is a winged, lion-like guardian beast famed for attracting and hoarding wealth, having no anus so that fortune it swallows can never leave." }, { "id": "g2_nemean_lion", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Greek mythology, the Nemean Lion is a monstrous lion with a hide impervious to weapons that terrorized the region of Nemea until Heracles strangled it bare-handed as the first of his Twelve Labors." }, { "id": "g3_simargl", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "In form, Simargl is consistently described as a winged, chimeric creature combining features of a bird, a dog, and sometimes lion- or griffin-like attributes, giving it a composite appearance closer to a fantastic guardian beast than a conventional dragon despite sometimes being grouped with dragon-like beings in later reference works." } ] }, { "slug": "liver", "name": "liver", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The liver denotes soul, vitality, courage, strength, and intelligence; eating an enemy’s or animal’s liver was believed to transfer those qualities.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "liver", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "liver", "title": "Liver", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 4, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "lobster", "name": "Lobster", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The lobster denotes armored isolation, insensitivity, grasping appetite, and lust in one source, but Japanese tradition gives it longevity and celebration.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "lobster", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-lock", "name": "Lock", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The lock denotes a boundary made fast, protecting what nourishes and the privacy of a marriage, while its sound equally announces confinement imposed from outside.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "lock", "title": "Lock", "world": "Human World", "sub": "House and Home", "sense_count": 4, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "locust", "name": "locust", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The locust denotes crop-destroying plague and divine punishment, the inverse of generative sunlight, while exaggerated accounts turn swarms into monsters.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "locust", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "lodestone", "name": "lodestone", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Lodestone denotes magnetic attraction, love, guidance, and sacred magic, with tales of suspended statues, magnetic mountains, and reunited lovers.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "lodestone", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "lodge", "name": "Lodge", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The lodge can signify solitary retreat and melancholy, or an Amerindian cosmic center of purification, rebirth, and communication between earth and heaven.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "lodge", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "loka", "name": "LOKA", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Loka is a Hindu world or cosmic division, commonly grouped into three realms or seven upper and seven lower regions.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "loka", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "loom", "name": "loom", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The loom denotes fate, time, destiny, vegetation, and the weaving of life or the body, especially through feminine figures such as Penelope.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "loom", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-lotus", "name": "Lotus", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The lotus denotes purity unfolding out of mud, rooted in dark water and opening at dawn to the sun, and seats the enlightened.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "lotus", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "lotus", "title": "Lotus", "world": "Plant World", "sub": "Magical Plants and Flowers", "sense_count": 6, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "lozenge", "name": "lozenge", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The lozenge denotes feminine creativity, vulva, and fertility; heraldry adds female status and virtue, while Mesopotamian interpretations remain uncertain.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "lozenge", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "lungs", "name": "Lungs", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The lungs are assigned to Cancer in one scheme; Chinese symbolism instead makes them the seat of righteousness and inner thought.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "lungs", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "lute", "name": "lute", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The lute denotes androgynous union, lovers, divine praise, friendship, marital harmony, scholarship, and Orphic mastery that reconciles natural forces and human passions.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "lute", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "lycanthropy", "name": "lycanthropy", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Lycanthropy is human transformation into a wolf, variously associated with ravenous frenzy, epilepsy, external souls, witchcraft, transmigration, vampirism, and wolf-children.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "lycanthropy", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "lydia", "name": "Lydia", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Lydia is a historical region associated here with Queen Omphale and stereotyped through soft living and light, festive musical modes.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "lydia", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "lynx", "name": "Lynx", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The lynx denotes wild ferocity, fearless nocturnal vitality, sharp sight, and vigilance, though some lore adds deceit or imagines a dog-headed fabulous beast.", "attestations": 5, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "lynx", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "creatures": [ { "id": "2_underwater_panther", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Underwater Panther, known by various names such as Mishipeshu, Mishibijiw, or Great Lynx, is a powerful and enigmatic creature in Native American mythology, particularly prominent in the traditions of the Great Lakes region." } ] }, { "slug": "lyonesse", "name": "Lyonesse", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Lyonesse is a legendary drowned island off Cornwall, associated with Tristram’s birth, Arthur’s final battle, and traditions of sunken or floating lands.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "lyonesse", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "mace", "name": "mace", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The mace denotes absolute authority, office, creative command, and victory by crushing force, serving as Heracles’ attribute and a Sumerian battle emblem.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "mace", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "maggot", "name": "Maggot", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The maggot denotes decomposition yet paradoxical survival beyond death; “Maggot” separately names a reported lobster-like mystery animal from Newfoundland.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "caveats": [ "homonym" ], "registry_id": "maggot", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "magicians", "name": "Magicians", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Magicians are learned ritual specialists: Egyptian tales stress spells, amulets, and book knowledge, while European lore ranges from angelic theurgy to necromancy.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "magicians", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "magnolia", "name": "Magnolia", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Magnolia denotes perseverance, love, refinement, lofty feeling, sensual nature, self-esteem, ostentation, spring, and feminine charm.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "magnolia", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "maiden", "name": "Maiden", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The maiden denotes virginity, innocence, new beginnings, grace, and gentleness; mythic sacrificed maidens can represent fertile fields overcome by destructive forces.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "maiden", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "maid-marian", "name": "Maid Marian", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Maid Marian is the May Queen and Tudor-era greenwood sweetheart of Robin Hood, also appearing in Morris dance and speculative fertility-goddess interpretations.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "maid-marian", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "maize", "name": "maize", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Maize denotes the corn spirit, earth’s life-sustaining abundance, nourishment, and peace; American traditions also make the cob an emblem of life.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "creature" ], "registry_id": "maize", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "canon", "canon_id": "g5_selu" }, "canon_creature": "g5_selu" }, { "slug": "mallet", "name": "Mallet", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The mallet denotes authority, directing will, masculine force, thunder, and good fortune; Japanese tradition combines masculine and feminine creative powers.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "mallet", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "mallow", "name": "mallow", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Mallow denotes quietness, peace, rusticity, and humility; folk practice also uses marshmallow medicinally and red mallow as protection against burns and bewitchment.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "mallow", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-mandala", "name": "Mandala", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The mandala denotes an enclosed sacred diagram, circle within square about a centre, picturing the cosmos and serving as an aid to integration.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "mandala", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "mandala", "title": "Mandala", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Rituals and Sacred Systems", "sense_count": 9, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "mandorla", "name": "Mandorla", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The mandorla is an almond-shaped aureole denoting divinity, holiness, virginity, spiritual manifestation, rebirth, and a gateway where opposites meet.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "mandorla", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "mandrake", "name": "mandrake", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Mandrake denotes a human-shaped, medicinal yet poisonous root associated with fertility, the Great Mother, enchantment, and witchcraft.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "mandrake", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "mandrake", "title": "Mandrake", "world": "Plant World", "sub": "Magical Plants and Flowers", "sense_count": 9, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "man-in-the-moon", "name": "Man in the Moon", "register": "concept", "gloss": "The Man in the Moon is a Sumatran spinner whose cotton thread a rat gnaws nightly, forcing endless repetition; the first citation is misaligned.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "man-in-the-moon", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "mantis", "name": "Mantis", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The mantis denotes predatory cunning and courage in European symbolism, while San tradition identifies Mantis with the trickster-creator |Kaggen and shamanic power.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "mantis", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "mantle", "name": "Mantle", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The mantle denotes shelter, protection, concealment, mystery, authority, and ritual transformation, while a divine mantle veils dangerous radiance and hidden abundance.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "mantle", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "maple", "name": "maple", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Maple denotes autumn, lovers, domestic happiness, retirement, and transience, while its leaf also serves as Canada’s emblem.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "maple", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "mare", "name": "Mare", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The mare denotes fertility through horse-formed goddesses, but also witchcraft and the night-demon behind frightening dreams; heraldry uses it rarely.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "mare", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "creatures": [ { "id": "2_mallt-y-nos", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Originating from Welsh folklore, Mallt-y-Nos is the Night Mare, a spectral horse." } ] }, { "slug": "marigold", "name": "marigold", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Marigold denotes solar light, fidelity, longevity, devotion, and love; Hindu tradition links it to Krishna, while European custom uses it in wedding garlands.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "marigold", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "marjoram", "name": "marjoram", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Marjoram denotes grief and modest blushes, appearing in funerary garlands for lovers whose deaths are joined.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "marjoram", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "marrow", "name": "Marrow", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Marrow symbolizes the body’s innermost vigor, including physical strength, masculine sexual potency, and consuming desire.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "marrow", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "mars", "name": "Mars", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Mars denotes active, martial passion, courage, fire, iron, and the south; Celtic usage also overlays numerous local agricultural and war divinities.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "creature" ], "registry_id": "mars", "census": { "class": "deity", "status": "canon", "canon_id": "g7_mars" }, "canon_creature": "g7_mars" }, { "slug": "bridger-marsh", "name": "Marsh", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The marsh denotes fecund ooze between water and dry ground, a place of hidden becoming where dissolution feeds renewal and the dead are pictured resting.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "marsh", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "marsh", "title": "Marsh", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Earth", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "mask", "name": "Mask", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "A mask denotes protection, concealment, identity change, supernatural embodiment, instinctual wisdom, or death, with meanings shaped by ritual and theatrical use.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "mask", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "mask", "title": "Mask", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Rituals and Sacred Systems", "sense_count": 9, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "bridger-masturbation", "name": "Masturbation", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Masturbation denotes the solitary generative act, attributed to creator gods who brought a pantheon out of themselves, and read as the psyche's capacity for self-becoming.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "essay", "registry_id": "masturbation", "census": { "class": "other", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "masturbation", "title": "Masturbation", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 0, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "may-day", "name": "May Day", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "May Day denotes springtime nature renewed through fertility rites, greenery, tree worship, and seasonal celebration.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "may-day", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "maypole", "name": "Maypole", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The maypole denotes the cosmic axis and complementary sexual forces, joining fertility, spring renewal, resurrection, and the ordered movement of the cosmos.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "maypole", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "meadowsweet", "name": "meadowsweet", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Meadowsweet denotes uselessness and dangerous sleep in one source, while the other reference describes unrelated medicinal mayweed.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "caveats": [ "homonym" ], "registry_id": "meadowsweet", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "medicine", "name": "medicine", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Medicine here combines practical herbal and surgical treatment with supernatural disease theories and a folk conviction that nature provides a remedy for every illness.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "medicine", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "medicine", "title": "Medicine", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Sickness and Death", "sense_count": 0, "furniture_count": 25, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "menhir", "name": "menhir", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "A menhir is an upright prehistoric standing stone associated with masculine generative power, protection, sacrifice, burial, and the world axis.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "menhir", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-menstruation", "name": "Menstruation", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Menstruation denotes the ambivalent potency of women's blood, held fertilising on one side and polluting on the other, marking a cycle's dissolution and renewal.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "essay", "registry_id": "menstruation", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "menstruation", "title": "Menstruation", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 0, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "merlin", "name": "Merlin", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Merlin is Arthurian legend’s demon-born enchanter and counselor, blending seer and wild-man traditions; tales end with enchantment, confinement, or departure in a glass ship.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "merlin", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-mermaid", "name": "Mermaid", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The mermaid denotes alluring danger risen from the depths, woman above and fish below, whose song and sensual promise draw a mortal toward the water.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "creature", "domain" ], "registry_id": "mermaid", "census": { "class": "creature", "status": "canon", "canon_id": "g3_ningyo" }, "canon_creature": "g3_ningyo", "domain": { "id": "mermaid", "title": "Mermaid", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Mythical Beings", "sense_count": 11, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "g2_iara", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "She is typically described as strikingly beautiful, with dark skin, green or black hair, and, in many tellings, a fish's tail in place of legs, making her a close cousin of the mermaid figures found across other seafaring and riverine cultures." }, { "id": "g2_mami_wata", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In West and Central African folklore and its diaspora traditions, Mami Wata is a powerful water spirit, often depicted as a mermaid or serpent-charmer, who governs rivers and seas and can bring wealth, fertility, or ruin to those she favors or curses." }, { "id": "g3_liban", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Irish tradition, Liban is a woman swept into an underwater cavern by a catastrophic flood who prayed her way into a mermaid's body and was later venerated as a saint." }, { "id": "g6_nakinneito", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Nakinneito is Finland's water maiden — the female of the dangerous Nakki, a gleaming mermaid seen combing her long curls on the water." } ] }, { "slug": "bridger-metamorphosis", "name": "Metamorphosis", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Metamorphosis denotes a radical and permanent change of form that reveals essential qualities, worked by magic, punishment or nature, and usually hidden while it happens.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "metamorphosis", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "metamorphosis", "title": "Metamorphosis", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Soul and Psyche", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "michaelmas", "name": "Michaelmas", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Michaelmas is the September 29 feast of Michael and the angels, associated with harvest, ancestral mourning, rents, elections, witchcraft fears, and goose.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "michaelmas", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "midwife", "name": "midwife", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The midwife denotes a birth attendant versed in herbs and medicine, historically linked with prophecy, the life-death threshold, and fairy lore.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "midwife", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "milesians", "name": "Milesians", "register": "concept", "gloss": "The Milesians are legendary human invaders of Ireland who defeated the Tuatha Dé Danann, driving them into mounds and helping explain fairy origins.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "milesians", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "milk", "name": "milk", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Milk denotes divine nourishment, motherhood, kinship, fertility, abundance, and regenerative life, serving in initiation, baptismal, funerary, and protective rites.", "attestations": 5, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "milk", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "milky-way", "name": "Milky Way", "register": "concept", "gloss": "The Milky Way denotes a celestial route whose traditions variously explain it as divine milk, an ash-covered path, a pursuing jaguar, or an arrow-pierced worm.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "milky-way", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-mining", "name": "Mining", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Mining denotes drawing value out of raw rock, a transgression of sacred ground undertaken as midwifery, and figures extracting worth from one's own depths.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "mining", "title": "Mining", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Fundamentals of Work and Society", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "bridger-mirror", "name": "Mirror", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The mirror denotes truth and self-knowledge, the mind and soul as reflecting surface, and the cosmos as it returns the light of a supreme intelligence.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "mirror", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "mirror", "title": "Mirror", "world": "Human World", "sub": "House and Home", "sense_count": 8, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "g2_mami_wata", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In some tellings she appears fully human on land, distinguishable only by unusual beauty, wealth, or a telltale attraction to mirrors, combs, and other vanity items left as offerings at riverbanks and shores." } ] }, { "slug": "mist", "name": "Mist", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Mist denotes divine concealment, fertility, primordial confusion, and the initiate’s passage toward illumination; Māori cosmology also places it among storm-born waters.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "mist", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "creatures": [ { "id": "g3_nephele", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Her name is associated with clouds, and later interpreters connect her to a broader pattern in Greek myth of cloud-formed women, most famously the cloud-phantom created by Zeus in the story of Ixion, though sources do not always draw a direct line between that cloud-woman and Athamas's wife Nephele beyond the shared name and association with cloud and mist." } ] }, { "slug": "mistletoe", "name": "mistletoe", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Mistletoe denotes healing life-essence, immortality, liminality, and winter rebirth, with Druidic, Aeneid, and Baldur traditions linking it to sacred power.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "mistletoe", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "mitre", "name": "Mitre", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The mitre denotes religious authority, its form linked variously to Ea-Oannes priests’ fish-head caps, Jewish and Mithraic headgear, Phrygian dress, and Christian bishops.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "mitre", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "moly", "name": "moly", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Moly is Homer’s divine herb, given by Hermes to Odysseus as an antidote to Circe’s enchantments and described as white-flowered with a black root.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "moly", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-money", "name": "Money", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Money denotes an agreed medium of exchange and standard of value, descended from treasure and offering, and shows where energy is invested, hoarded or squandered.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "money", "title": "Money", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Tools and Other Objects", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 35, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "bridger-moon", "name": "Moon", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The moon denotes a light that waxes, wanes and returns, ruling tides, blood and madness, and holding chastity and its opposite, constancy and inconstancy together.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "moon", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "moon", "title": "Moon", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Cosmos", "sense_count": 24, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "moonstone", "name": "moonstone", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Moonstone denotes a luminous feldspar associated with thoughtfulness, memory, family harmony, safe sea travel, lunar love magic, prophecy, and Cancer.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "moonstone", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "mortar", "name": "Mortar", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The mortar denotes the receptive feminine principle; paired with the phallic pestle, it signifies fertility, and together they also evoke grinding and transformation.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "mortar", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "mosquito", "name": "Mosquito", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "In Chinese symbolism, mosquito imagery represents defiance and moral corruption; the second citation concerns an unrelated topic.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "caveats": [ "homonym" ], "registry_id": "mosquito", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "fly", "title": "Fly/Mosquito", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Arachnids and Insects", "sense_count": 9, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ], "bundles": [ "Fly" ] }, "joined_by": "title_bundle" }, { "slug": "moth", "name": "Moth", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The moth denotes decay, destructive consumption, and parasitism in biblical and literary imagery, while another tradition reads the insect as an image of the soul.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "caveats": [ "homonym" ], "registry_id": "moth", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "butterfly", "title": "Butterfly /Moth", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Arachnids and Insects", "sense_count": 10, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ], "bundles": [ "Butterfly" ] }, "joined_by": "title_bundle" }, { "slug": "mother", "name": "Mother", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Mother denotes the life principle, generational blood, destiny, wisdom, material nurture, water, womb, night, and the heart’s receptive side.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "mother", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "denotation_neighbours": [ { "slug": "womb", "evidence": "Mother denotes the life principle, generational blood, destiny, wisdom, material nurture, water, womb, night, and the heart’s receptive side." } ] }, { "slug": "mother-goddess", "name": "Mother Goddess", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Mother Goddess 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], "registry_id": "mountain", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "mountain", "title": "Mountain", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Earth", "sense_count": 5, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "2_daidarabotchi", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From Japanese folklore, Daidarabotchi is a giant so large it can carry mountains." }, { "id": "g7_kinabalu", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Bornean mountain personified, who took a duel of blows from a boastful Philippine peak and was still standing afterwards." } ] }, { "slug": "mourning", "name": "mourning", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Mourning denotes death rites joining ancestor reverence, fertility’s seasonal death, and hoped-for resurrection, while disguises and earth imagery guard against the newly dead.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "mourning", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "mouse", "name": "Mouse", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Mouse imagery ranges from chthonic darkness, agitation, devouring, and duplicity to sacred offering, hidden grain mastery, resurrection aid, and witchcraft.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "mouse", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "rat", "title": "Rat/Mouse", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Wild Animals", "sense_count": 11, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ], "bundles": [ "Rat" ] }, "joined_by": "title_bundle" }, { "slug": "mouth", "name": "Mouth", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The mouth denotes speech and creative power, sexual duality, devouring earth, judgment, and gateways to death or unity, combining creation with destruction.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "mouth", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "mouth", "title": "Mouth", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 8, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "mud", "name": "Mud", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Mud denotes matter emerging from receptive earth and transformative water, carrying fertility and growth while also signifying primitive, unrefined humanity and moral abasement.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "mud", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "mudras", "name": "Mudras", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Mudras are codified Hindu and Buddhist gestures forming a symbolic language; in classical dance, hand positions translate emotions and inherit divine associations.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "mudras", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "mugwort", "name": "mugwort", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Mugwort is an Artemisia herb associated with Artemis, childbirth, women, happiness, traveler endurance, and protection from poison, beasts, and sunstroke.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "mugwort", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "mulberry", "name": "mulberry", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Mulberry charts life’s stages through pale, crimson, then dark fruit; Chinese lore adds vitality, diligence, and filial devotion, while Greece recalls doomed lovers.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "mulberry", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "multiplicity", "name": "Multiplicity", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Multiplicity denotes intensified qualities yet also dispersion from unity, appearing as many limbs or deities and often carrying connotations of fragmentation or degeneration.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "multiplicity", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-mummy", "name": "Mummy", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The mummy denotes a body preserved against dissolution so the soul may recognise and reinhabit it, wrapped like a horizon around the dead.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "mummy", "census": { "class": "creature", "status": "candidate", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "mummy", "title": "Mummy", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Sickness and Death", 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office, and binding obligation; its linked beads express diverse life held in unity by an unseen divine connection.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "necklace", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "necklace", "title": "Necklace", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Tools and Other Objects", "sense_count": 5, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "bridger-throat", "name": "Neck/ Throat", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The throat denotes the narrow passage joining head to body, the vulnerable place of the cut and the vessel of voice, breath and swallowed nourishment.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "throat", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "throat", 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the Trinity, saints, living dignitaries, and Judas.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "nimbus", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "nine", "name": "NINE", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Nine signifies three sets of three, fulfilled cycles, truth, heavenly power, and the final limit before unity resumes, with sacred roles across many traditions.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "nine", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "north", "name": "North", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "North usually denotes cold, darkness, winter, death, mystery, and the polar world axis, but Egyptian and Hindu traditions instead assign light and masculine power.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "north", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-nose", "name": "Nose", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The nose denotes the breath of life and oldest of the senses, judging by scent what sight cannot, and cut away to deny survival.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "nose", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "nose", "title": "Nose", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "nudity", "name": "Nudity", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Nudity denotes innocence, truth, renunciation, primordial freedom, and rebirth, yet can signify lust or shame; rituals use exposure to influence rain and repel spirits.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "nudity", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "number", "name": "Number", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Number denotes the principles underlying cosmic order; distance from one suggests material fragmentation, while odd and even values receive contrasting active and receptive qualities.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "number", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "numbers", "name": "numbers", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Numbers denote qualitative as well as quantitative principles of cosmic origin and harmony; traditions assign them magical meanings and use systems including Mesoamerican base twenty.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "numbers", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "creatures": [ { "id": "g4_khara", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "It is described with a precision that is clearly systematic rather than observational: three legs, six eyes, nine mouths, two ears and one horn, of enormous size, and the numbers are given as figures rather than approximations." } ] }, { "slug": "nutmeg", "name": "nutmeg", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Nutmeg is a ceremonial and erotic spice associated with weddings; folk medicine used its brainlike seed for mental, visual, skin, and protective remedies.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "nutmeg", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "oak", "name": "oak", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Oak denotes strength, protection, endurance, courage, truth, masculine fertility, thunder, and the world tree, serving as a holy tree across many traditions.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "oak", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-oak-tree", "name": "Oak Tree", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The oak denotes invincible august strength, the tree most often given worship, drawing down the lightning of storm gods, and outlasting many human generations.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "oak-tree", "title": "Oak Tree", "world": "Plant World", "sub": "Trees", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "obelisk", "name": "Obelisk", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The obelisk denotes masculine generation, fertility, regeneration, stability, the world axis, and solar ascent; Egyptian tradition identifies it with Ra’s life-giving ray.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "obelisk", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "oboe", "name": "oboe", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The oboe denotes plaintive pastoral music and, through its tubular form, the masculine generative principle; its broader associations overlap those of flutes and trumpets.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "oboe", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-ocean", "name": "Ocean", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The ocean denotes the primordial unfathomable waters, chaos and source of life at once, holding every possibility unmanifest and mothering what crawls from it.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "ocean", "census": { "class": "deity", "status": "candidate", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "ocean", "title": "Ocean", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Water", "sense_count": 11, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "1_tiamat", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "She embodies the concept of the cosmic ocean, a recurring motif in many ancient cultures' cosmologies." }, { "id": "2_cipactli", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "It thrashes about at the ocean's surface, its hunger so vast it eats everything, including itself at times." }, { "id": "g4_rahab", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "That flexibility is why the same word can point to a monster, to the ocean, and to an empire, and why comparisons with the Mesopotamian and Canaanite sea-battles are made so often." } ] }, { "slug": "octagon", "name": "Octagon", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The octagon denotes regeneration, rebirth, and passage, mediating square and circle in sacred architecture and marking eight directions, winds, doors, or temporal divisions.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "octagon", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "octopus", "name": "Octopus", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Octopus imagery joins spiral creation, the mystical center, thunder, lunar phases, deep water, Cancer, and an infernal threshold, while camouflage suggests cunning.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "octopus", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "octopus", "title": "Octopus", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Water Creatures", "sense_count": 3, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "oil", "name": "oil", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Oil denotes wealth, light, divine grace, consecration, preservation, joy, peace, mercy, fertility, and wisdom; Mesopotamian practice also employs it in divination and libation.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "oil", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "old-age", "name": "Old Age", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Old Age appears as a personified destructive force: the sea monster Iku-Turso is called its son, while an allegorical hag withers those she touches.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "old-age", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-olive-tree", "name": "Olive Tree", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The olive denotes resilience that renews from the root and survives fire, gift of Athena to her city, and carried as a branch signalling peace.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "essay", "registry_id": "olive-tree", "census": { "class": "other", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "olive-tree", "title": "Olive Tree", "world": "Plant World", "sub": "Trees", "sense_count": 0, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "om", "name": "OM", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Om is the sacred primordial sound and syllable of invocation, assent, and blessing, denoting Brahman, the Absolute, the Self, cosmic totality, and a threefold unity.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "om", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "omen", "name": "omen", "register": "concept", "gloss": "An omen is an interpreted sign sought through divination or encountered by chance, indicating future events or revealing distant occurrences already underway.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "omen", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "denotation_neighbours": [ { "slug": "divination", "evidence": "An omen is an interpreted sign sought through divination or encountered by chance, indicating future events or revealing distant occurrences already underway." } ] }, { "slug": "one", "name": "ONE", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "One denotes primordial unity, origin, creator, essence, center, light, and the indivisible source from which multiplicity arises and ultimately returns.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "one", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "one", "title": "One", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Rituals and Sacred Systems", "sense_count": 14, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "oneiromancy", "name": "oneiromancy", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Oneiromancy is ancient, widespread divination through dreams, interpreting explicit messages or symbolic imagery as warnings, predictions, or guidance.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "oneiromancy", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "onion", "name": "onion", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Onion signifies layered oneness, cosmic order, an originating power, deathlessness, inward discovery, and protection; folk uses add luck, marriage divination, weather signs, eroticism, and healing.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "onion", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "onyx", "name": "onyx", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Onyx denotes innocence, marital love, memory, courage, devotion, and protection from the evil eye, though Indian use instead cools erotic passion.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "onyx", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "opal", "name": "opal", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Opal traditionally denotes hope, confidence, prophecy, faithful love, innocence, and spiritual renewal, but nineteenth-century lore reversed its reputation into an omen of misfortune.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "opal", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-orange", "name": "Orange", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Orange denotes the blend of red and yellow, flame and gold together, signalling fertility in its blossom and, at full saturation, warning, detention and renunciation.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "orange", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "orange", "title": "Orange", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Color", "sense_count": 3, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "orb", "name": "Orb", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The orb denotes perfection, wholeness, eternity, the world soul, celestial bodies, and universal dominion, especially when held with a ruler’s scepter.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "orb", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "orchid", "name": "Orchid", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Orchid denotes luxury, magnificence, erotic power, beauty, and feminine charm; Chinese symbolism adds harmony, refinement, the exemplary person, and secluded scholarship.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "orchid", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-orphan", "name": "Orphan", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The orphan denotes the bereft and the sacred at once, cut off from origin, helpless yet precocious, a consciousness newly separated and making its way.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "orphan", "title": "Orphan", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Fundamentals of Work and Society", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "osprey", "name": "Osprey", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Osprey imagery denotes sovereign mastery over fish, solar testing, and predatory fascination; myth links it to transformed Nisus, while Yeats associates it with time-born sorrow.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "osprey", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "ostrich", "name": "Ostrich", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Ostrich symbolism ranges from forgetfulness and folly to truth, justice, storm, creation, resurrection, light, water, and a South American constellation.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "ostrich", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "otter", "name": "Otter", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Otter imagery includes Norse shape-shifting, avarice, and transient fertility; Zoroastrianism treats it as sacredly clean, while Christianity links it to Saint Cuthbert.", "attestations": 5, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "otter", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "creatures": [ { "id": "2_dobhar-chu", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "Often described as a hybrid between an otter and a dog, the Dobhar-chu possesses a sleek, muscular body adapted for swift movement both in water and on land." }, { "id": "2_kawa-uso", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Originating in Japanese folklore, the Kawa-uso is a playful river otter known for its shape-shifting abilities and love of pranks." } ] }, { "slug": "ouph", "name": "Ouph", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Ouph is an obsolete Elizabethan literary term for an elf, related by historical sound change to the word oaf.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "ouph", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "oval", "name": "Oval", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The oval denotes feminine life, the vulva, egg, earth, and receptive power, and may also form a sacred halo around a figure.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "oval", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "oven", "name": "Oven", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The oven denotes womb, birth, feminine sexuality, and transformative heat; alchemy makes it the psychic vessel where base nature becomes self-mastery.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "oven", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "oven", "title": "Oven", "world": "Human World", "sub": "House and Home", "sense_count": 6, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "ovid", "name": "Ovid", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Ovid was an Augustan Roman poet whose mythological writings became major symbolic sources; Augustus exiled him to Tomi for reasons that remain uncertain.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "ovid", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-owl", "name": "Owl", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The owl denotes silent nocturnal seeing, held wise and prophetic in one tradition and an omen of death and folly in another, and hunts unheard.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "owl", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "owl", "title": "Owl", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Birds", "sense_count": 9, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "ox", "name": "Ox", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The ox denotes patient labor, strength, wealth, agriculture, and sacrifice; traditions variously make it solar-fertile, lunar, contemplatively wise, disciplined nature, or primeval life.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "ox", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "pa-kua", "name": "Pa Kua", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Pa Kua is the Chinese divinatory arrangement of eight trigrams, mapping complementary yin-yang forces of nature within a circle of time, space, balance, and harmony.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "pa-kua", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-palm-tree", "name": "Palm Tree", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The palm denotes victorious rebirth and refreshment in the wilderness, raised in salute, and feeding the dead from the hands of the sky goddesses.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "essay", "domain": { "id": "palm-tree", "title": "Palm Tree", "world": "Plant World", "sub": "Trees", "sense_count": 0, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "pansy", "name": "pansy", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Pansy denotes thought, remembrance, meditation, and love, while its three colors signify the Christian Trinity and its unequal petals inspire stepfamily folklore.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "pansy", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "pantheon", "name": "Pantheon", "register": "concept", "gloss": "A pantheon is a tradition’s collective deities, often ranked by function; Igbo sources describe one hierarchy, while Mesopotamia’s long multicultural history resists any single roster.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "pantheon", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "paper", "name": "paper", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Paper denotes fragility and impermanence in one symbolic source; Mesoamerican evidence instead concerns its early manufacture from pounded fig-tree bark.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "paper", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "parrot", "name": "Parrot", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Parrot imagery ranges from foolish imitation and eloquence to prophecy, rain, brilliance, erotic love, marital warning, and vigilant observation.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "parrot", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "creatures": [ { "id": "2_fenghuang", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Fenghuang is said to have the head of a golden pheasant, the body of a mandarin duck, the tail of a peacock, the legs of a crane, the mouth of a parrot, and the wings of a swallow." }, { "id": "2_mbói_tu'ĩ", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "A serpent god from Guarani mythology, Mbói Tu'ĩ has a parrot’s head and a serpent's body." } ] }, { "slug": "parsley", "name": "parsley", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Parsley denotes feminine mystery, fertility, death, witchcraft, and sexual license; ancient wreaths linked victory with funeral games, while folk belief often deemed transplanting it fatal.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "parsley", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "passage", "name": "Passage", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Passage denotes transition between worlds or states, especially the difficult spiritual movement from profane division toward sacred unity, higher consciousness, or paradise.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "passage", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-path", "name": "Path/ Road", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The path denotes the way one goes and the wisdom of going it, doubled into an easy road and a narrow one, ending at death.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "path", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "path", "title": "Path/ Road", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Movement and Expression", "sense_count": 0, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "pe", "name": "Pe", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Pe refers either to an Egyptian locality associated with divine souls and watchers, or to the Hebrew letter credited with redemption yet stained by transgression.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "pe", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "peace", "name": "Peace", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Peace may name Zeus and Themis’s daughter; symbolically it is represented by the dove, olive branch, calumet, Virgin Mary, or cornucopia of plenty.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "denotation_neighbours": [ { "slug": "dove", "evidence": "Peace may name Zeus and Themis’s daughter; symbolically it is represented by the dove, olive branch, calumet, Virgin Mary, or cornucopia of plenty." } ] }, { "slug": "peach", "name": "peach", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Peach denotes feminine sexuality, marriage, spring, salvation, silence, prosperity, and especially immortality; Chinese practice also treats its tree and fruit as demon-repelling spiritual power.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "peach", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "peach", "title": "Peach", "world": "Plant World", "sub": "Magical Plants and Flowers", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "peacock", "name": "Peacock", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Peacock denotes pride, royalty, solar glory, immortality, stars, love, and apotheosis; its sacred or healing feathers contrast with traditions casting it as Paradise’s compromised guardian.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "peacock", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "peacock", "title": "Peacock", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Birds", "sense_count": 11, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "pear", "name": "Pear", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Pear denotes generosity, affection, hope, health, longevity, justice, and good government; goddess traditions and Christianity respectively connect it with Hera, Isis, and Christ’s love.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "pear", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-pearl", "name": "Pearl", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The pearl denotes hidden worth made from an irritant, purity drawn out of fleshly darkness, and whatever is most valued, from a child to heaven.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "pearl", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "pearl", "title": "Pearl", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Soul and Psyche", "sense_count": 13, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "g2_huli_jing", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Folk and literary tradition frequently link the fox spirit's power to an internal elixir or pearl, sometimes described as a bead or ball of concentrated energy that it works to cultivate or protect, and that a human who obtains it might gain some of the fox's power, though the attempt is dangerous." }, { "id": "g7_bonito_maidens", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "They are seldom seen and consistently described as beautiful, wearing the ornament of their own element — cowrie shell and porpoise tooth in one account, ivory and pearl and shell in another." } ] }, { "slug": "pen", "name": "Pen", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The pen denotes learning, awakened soul, universal intellect, and creative destiny; Christian, Egyptian, Islamic, and Mesopotamian traditions treat writing implements as sacred attributes.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "pen", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "penny", "name": "Penny", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Penny denotes folklore’s guarded magical coins, whose steeping water healed people or animals; another reference instead names a punning fairy character Penny.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "penny", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "peony", "name": "Peony", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Peony denotes healing, spring, beauty, love, glory, prosperity, and masculine yang power, while other associations include bashfulness, anger, marriage, fertility, and protection from affliction.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "peony", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "pepper", "name": "pepper", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Pepper denotes biting satire, erotic stimulation, and martial heat; as a prized spice, it also drove ancient commerce and European voyages toward Asia.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "pepper", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "persimmon", "name": "Persimmon", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Persimmon denotes Chinese joy and Japanese victory; American folk practices instead associate it with sex-change tales and ritual cures for chills and fever.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "persimmon", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "peter", "name": "Peter", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Peter is the apostle associated with rock, papal office, heaven’s gate, threefold denial, a coin-bearing fish, inverted crucifixion, and travels alongside Christ in folklore.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "peter", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "phallus", "name": "Phallus", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The phallus denotes masculine creative power, fertility, life’s generative stream, protection, and resurrection; penetrating forms can also signify destruction, joining creation and death.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "phallus", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "phallus", "title": "Phallus", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 17, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "phrygia", "name": "Phrygia", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Phrygia is an ancient country associated here with Aphrodite’s seduction, Dionysus’s initiation into Cybele’s mysteries, and a fertility blessing performed with three raised fingers.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "phrygia", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-pig", "name": "Pig", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The pig denotes fecund generative bulk, linked to the great mother and offered to her, and equally the gluttony and sloth piety read into it.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "pig", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "pig", "title": "Pig", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Wild Animals", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "pillar", "name": "Pillar", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The pillar denotes the world axis, heaven’s support, stability, divine presence, masculine creation, and life; broken or paired pillars mark death, boundary, or polarity.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "pillar", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "pillar", "title": "Pillar/Column", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Buildings and Monuments", "sense_count": 17, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "pimpernel", "name": "pimpernel", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Pimpernel denotes change, meetings, fruitfulness, childhood, and solar timing; folk traditions dedicate varieties to Mary or Columcille and credit the plant with second sight.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "pimpernel", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "pin", "name": "pin", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Pins denote love, marriage, sexual excitement, restraint, and value; Celtic offerings at waters may symbolize prayers to mend broken bones or hearts.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "pin", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-pine-tree", "name": "Pine Tree", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The pine denotes immortality and steadfastness, keeping green through winter, crowning the thyrsus with its cone and figuring the spirit of old age.", "attestations": 1, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "pine-tree", "census": { "class": "other", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "pine-tree", "title": "Pine Tree", "world": "Plant World", "sub": "Trees", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 38, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "g5_pitys", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Pitys is a nymph of Greek tradition pursued by Pan and, in the fuller ancient episode, tormented by a jealous Boreas before being transformed into a pine tree to escape him." } ] }, { "slug": "pipe", "name": "Pipe", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Pipe music signifies harmony, especially the natural concord embodied by Pan, and serves as a satyr’s attribute; related traditions include the calumet.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "pipe", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "pisces", "name": "Pisces", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Pisces is the mutable-water zodiac sign of opposing fishes, denoting past and future, an ending and beginning cycle, rain, resurrection, piety, humility, and resignation.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "pisces", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "plague", "name": "Plague", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Plague denotes affliction as punishment for vice, a metaphor for marriage or unwanted consequence, and, in the Kalevala, one of Lowyatar’s personified disease-children.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "plague", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "plantain", "name": "Plantain", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Plantain denotes morning, sacred sevenfold form, healing, self-education, and the Christian path; its leaves appear in charms, wound care, and improvised writing.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "plantain", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "plentyn-newid", "name": "Plentyn-newid", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Plentyn-newid is a Welsh changeling, a fairy substitute for a stolen infant, traditionally subjected to the harsh tests found throughout changeling lore.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ] }, { "slug": "bridger-plow", "name": "Plow", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The plow denotes the sacred marriage of seed and soil, the furrow opened as sexual union, and equally the wounding of ground for settled cultivation.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": 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"point", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-poison", "name": "Poison", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Poison denotes the harmful drawn in with life, the dissociated underside of everything idealised, and the same substance that in measured dose becomes the cure.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "poison", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "poison", "title": "Poison", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Sickness and Death", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "poison-ivy", "name": "poison ivy", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Poison ivy denotes ridicule that wounds without contact; folk belief exaggerates its remote harm, while Potawatomi and Cherokee practices use or ritually placate it.", "attestations": 2, 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"gloss": "Popinjay denotes gaudy merriment, amusement, and wantonness, functioning as an older name for a parrot and as a heraldic bird.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ] }, { "slug": "poppy", "name": "poppy", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Poppy denotes fertility, night, sleep, oblivion, death, and vegetation’s dormancy; traditions also assign retirement, beauty, success, ignorance, dissipation, and the Great Mother.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "poppy", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "pot", "name": "Pot", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The pot denotes the maternal womb, primeval waters, fluids, rain, fertility, rebirth, and rejuvenation, but a heated vessel can signify punishment or disaster.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "pot", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": 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"domain", "gloss": "Purple denotes red and blue conjoined, costly enough to be reserved for emperors and priests, and as the rainbow's last band marks the known ending.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "purple", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "purple", "title": "Purple", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Color", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "puss-in-boots", "name": "Puss in Boots", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Puss in Boots is a helpful-animal folktale in which a magical, deceptive cat transforms a poor youth’s fortunes, winning him wealth, royal status, and marriage.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "puss-in-boots", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "putrefaction", "name": "Putrefaction", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Putrefaction denotes alchemical dissolution after destruction, breaking down bodily and mental impediments so the soul may be released and matter reintegrated in rebirth.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "putrefaction", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "pygmalion", "name": "Pygmalion", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Pygmalion names differing figures: a Cypriot king in Apollodorus and Ovid’s sculptor whose beloved statue Aphrodite animates, symbolizing frozen feeling awakened to life.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "pygmalion", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "pyramid", "name": "pyramid", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The pyramid denotes sacred mountain, world axis, fertility, solar fire, earth, 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"register": "concept", "gloss": "Rheumatism is a painful ailment once blamed on witchcraft or offended fairies and treated through extensive herbal and household remedies.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "rheumatism", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "rhomb-us", "name": "rhomb(us)", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Rhombus here means the bullroarer, a swung wooden noisemaker representing thunder and wind and used to invoke divinity during initiation and rainmaking.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "rhomb-us", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "rice", "name": "rice", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Rice symbolizes divine nourishment, abundance, happiness, immortality, and fertility, especially when thrown at newlyweds to wish them luck and children.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "rice", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "right-and-left", "name": "right and left", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Right usually denotes solar masculinity, future, strength, and honor, while left bears contrary meanings; Chinese tradition notably grants honor to the left.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "right-and-left", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "ring", "name": "Ring", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Ring denotes eternity, cyclic completion, authority, protection, and binding union, though its bond can signify marriage, transferred power, or even servitude.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "ring", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "ring", "title": "Ring", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Tools and Other Objects", "sense_count": 14, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "river", "name": "River", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "River signifies life's flux, fertility, and passage between realms; crossing, bathing, or returning upstream can express transition, purification, or recovery of origins.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "river", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "river", "title": "River", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Water", "sense_count": 12, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "rock", "name": "Rock", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Rock denotes permanence, refuge, and primordial identity, while paired rocks form otherworldly thresholds and sacred traditions make stone a source of divine birth.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "rock", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "rod", "name": "Rod", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Rod signifies authority, discipline, liberation, fertility, and the world axis; magical or divine rods guide souls, settle disputes, measure time, and wield lightning.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "rod", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "roof", "name": "Roof", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Roof primarily signifies shelter and feminine protection, yet rooftop gardens, incense, and libations can also make it a site of celestial or forbidden worship.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "roof", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "room", "name": "Room", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Room represents the individual's private interior or heart, with windows opening outward and doors enabling passage; complete enclosure can signify virginity or initiation.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "room", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "roots", "name": "roots", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Roots denote the tree's hidden chthonic foundation; African American conjure also employs particular roots as protective or harmful magical agents.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "roots", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "roots", "title": "Roots", "world": "Plant World", "sub": "Trees", "sense_count": 17, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "rope", "name": "Rope", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Rope binds and limits but can also connect earth with heaven, enabling passage or freedom; as a noose it signifies betrayal, despair, or death.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "rope", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "rosary", "name": "Rosary", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Rosary signifies cyclical time, wholeness, devotion, and meditation, with differing bead counts encoding Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, and Islamic sacred orders.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "rosary", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "rose", "name": "rose", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Rose is an ambivalent emblem of perfection and passion, life and death, fertility and virginity, also carrying love, secrecy, martyrdom, and resurrection.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "rose", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "rose", "title": "Rose", "world": "Plant World", "sub": "Magical Plants and Flowers", "sense_count": 16, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "rosemary", "name": "rosemary", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Rosemary's enduring scent signifies remembrance, fidelity, and friendship; it appears in funerals, weddings, protective magic, and practices intended to strengthen memory.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "rosemary", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "round-table", "name": "Round Table", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The Round Table is an Arthurian object symbolizing equality, celestial wholeness, and a cosmic center, with twelve knights echoing the zodiac and treacherous seat.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "round-table", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "ruby", "name": "ruby", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Ruby signifies royalty, dignity, power, love, passion, beauty, longevity, and invulnerability, though its planetary, zodiacal, and seasonal assignments vary across traditions.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "ruby", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "rudder", "name": "Rudder", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Rudder signifies guidance, control, prudence, and safety, serving as an emblem of divine will, fate, sovereign power, and prosperity.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "rudder", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "rue", "name": "rue", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Rue is ambivalent: a solar herb of grace, purification, repentance, and protection, yet also a sign of sorrow, poison, witchcraft, and abortion.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "rue", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "sackcloth", "name": "Sackcloth", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Sackcloth denotes mourning, repentance, humiliation, and affliction, its contact with dust or ashes expressing atonement and solidarity with the dead.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "sackcloth", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "sacrifice", "name": "sacrifice", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Sacrifice is a consecrated offering for placation, petition, gratitude, or expiation, symbolically restoring cosmic unity and renewing creation through destruction.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "sacrifice", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "saffron", "name": "saffron", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Saffron is a solar herb signifying humility, renunciation, love, and magic, while its vivid color and fragrance support ceremonial, cosmetic, culinary, and medicinal uses.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "saffron", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "sagittarius", "name": "Sagittarius", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Sagittarius is the zodiacal archer expressing directed power and joined animal-spiritual nature; traditions variously identify it with Nergal, a wild centaur, or Chiron.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "sagittarius", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "creatures": [ { "id": "g3_cheiron", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Unable to escape the pain through death, he is said to give up his immortality, in some tellings trading it to free Prometheus from his own suffering, after which Zeus honors him by placing his image among the stars, generally identified with the constellation Centaurus or Sagittarius." } ] }, { "slug": "salmon", "name": "Salmon", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Salmon signifies fecundity, wisdom, and otherworldly knowledge in Celtic lore, while North American traditions center on its release by Coyote as sustaining food.", "attestations": 5, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "salmon", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "creatures": [ { "id": "g3_liban", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "Her prayer was granted in a partial and striking form: her lower body became that of a salmon while her upper body stayed human, making her a mermaid in the literal sense of the word, and her dog was transformed alongside her into an otter." } ] }, { "slug": "salt", "name": "Salt", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Salt signifies preservation, life, purity, permanence, friendship, and wisdom; it wards off supernatural harm and alchemically fixes volatile spirit into embodied form.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "salt", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "salt", "title": "Salt", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Earth", "sense_count": 19, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "samhain", "name": "Samhain", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Samhain is the Gaelic opening of winter around November first, a liminal turning when summer ends, fairy mounds open, and ghosts roam.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "samhain", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "sand", "name": "Sand", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Sand signifies barrenness, countless multitude, instability, and impermanence, yet shores can promise safety and Islamic dry ablution gives sand a purifying role.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "sand", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "sandals", "name": "Sandals", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Sandals can depict the full moon through golden or brazen footwear, while winged sandals signify fleetness and identify divine messengers such as Hermes.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "sandals", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "sap", "name": "Sap", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Sap is the plant's life-force, sharing the symbolism of blood, semen, youth, strength, motherhood, and the celestial milk of a mother goddess.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "sap", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "sapphire", "name": "sapphire", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Sapphire signifies truth, heavenly contemplation, purity, chastity, sincerity, constancy, and protection, while its planetary and zodiacal assignments differ sharply among traditions.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "sapphire", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "sarcophagus", "name": "Sarcophagus", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Sarcophagus signifies death and mortality through an enclosing feminine container, identified with earth as life's origin and endpoint and sometimes with an alchemical vessel.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "sarcophagus", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "sardonyx", "name": "Sardonyx", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Sardonyx signifies honor, renown, vitality, and self-control; traditions also credit it with marital happiness, easier childbirth, protection from injury, and signet use.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "sardonyx", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "saturn", "name": "Saturn", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Saturn is the Roman agricultural god and Golden Age king, later symbolizing time, fate, death-rebirth, rational 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"gloss": "Saucer can signify feminine containment and hold sacrificial or medicinal blood; American lumberjack folklore instead uses Saucer as another name for the Guyascutus.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "saucer", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "saw", "name": "saw", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Saw signifies solar light cutting darkness, industry, and Christian martyrdom, serving as an emblem of Shamash or Utu and several saints.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "saw", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-scale", "name": "Scale", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The scale denotes weighing and the balance of opposites, attribute of blindfold justice, and the instrument on which a life's weight is read after death.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "scale", "title": "Scale", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Tools and Other Objects", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "scales", "name": "Scales", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Scales as balances signify justice, equality, harmony, and Libra; fish scales instead denote armor, protection, and divinities governing deep waters.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "scales", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "denotation_neighbours": [ { "slug": "libra", "evidence": "Scales as balances signify justice, equality, harmony, and Libra; fish scales instead denote armor, protection, and divinities governing deep waters." } ] }, { "slug": "scallop", "name": "Scallop", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Scallop signifies sea-born fertility, feminine generation, baptismal rebirth, and pilgrimage, especially the journey to Saint James's shrine at Santiago de Compostela.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "scallop", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "scapegoat", "name": "scapegoat", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Scapegoat receives a community's guilt, illness, or misfortune for expulsion, sacrifice, or release, purging the past through a substitute victim.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "scapegoat", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-scarab", "name": "Scarab", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The scarab denotes self-creation and the sun rolled up out of darkness, its young seeming to arise from the dung ball, and worn against death.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "scarab", "title": "Scarab", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Arachnids and Insects", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "bridger-school", "name": "School", "register": "domain", "gloss": "School denotes the structured building up of knowledge and the freedom it promises, alongside an involuntary schooling in authority, competition and shame.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "school", "title": "School", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Buildings and Monuments", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 33, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "scissors", "name": "Scissors", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Scissors unite paired blades yet sever life's thread, symbolizing both birth and death; their steel can protect against witchcraft but also makes them dangerous.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "scissors", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "scissors", "title": "Scissors", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Tools and Other Objects", "sense_count": 9, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "scorpio", "name": "Scorpio", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Scorpio is the eighth zodiacal sign, a fixed-water emblem of death and regeneration whose scorpion pursues or kills Orion in classical legend.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "scorpio", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "scorpion", "name": "Scorpion", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Scorpion signifies death, torment, darkness, and treachery, yet Egyptian and Mesopotamian traditions also make it a guardian of the dead and solar gateways.", "attestations": 5, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "scorpion", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "scorpion", "title": "Scorpion", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Arachnids and Insects", "sense_count": 14, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "1_manticore", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Persian legend describes this creature as having a human head, a lion's body, and a scorpion's tail." }, { "id": "2_aqrabuamelu", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "Originating in Mesopotamian myths, Aqrabuamelu are scorpion-men." }, { "id": "2_centicore", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Originating in Persian mythology, Centicore is a creature with the body of a lion, the tail of a scorpion, and a trumpet-like mouth." }, { "id": "2_tarasque", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Tarasque is said to have six bear-like legs, ending in powerful claws, and a long, serpentine tail tipped with a scorpion's stinger." }, { "id": "g1_pazuzu", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Pazuzu is depicted with a grotesque, composite form: a canine or leonine face with bulging eyes, a scaly body, a scorpion's tail, talons on both his hands and feet, and two pairs of wings." } ] }, { "slug": "scourge", "name": "Scourge", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Scourge denotes discipline, divine punishment, and devastating war or trouble; in Christianity it recalls Christ's Passion and serves as Saint Ambrose's emblem.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "scourge", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "scroll", "name": "Scroll", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Scroll signifies revelation, law, learning, destiny, and the unfolding span of life, appearing as Torah, sutra, Book of Life, or prophetic attribute.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "scroll", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "seal", "name": "Seal", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Seal here is the animal form assumed by the Nereid Psamathe; the other citation concerns the sea and supplies no distinct symbolic meaning.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "seal", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "sea-urchin", "name": "Sea Urchin", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Sea urchin signifies solar radiance, latent life, and primordial seed; Celtic lore calls it a serpent's egg, while grave use links it to immortality.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "sea-urchin", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "seed", "name": "Seed", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Seed signifies latent potential, fertility, growth, hope, and the spiritual center from which life, wisdom, consciousness, or the cosmic tree unfolds.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "seed", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "seelie-court", "name": "Seelie Court", "register": "concept", "gloss": "The comparatively benevolent court of British trooping fairies, organized as a peaceful royal society yet still capable of demanding respect from humans.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "seelie-court", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "seven", "name": "seven", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Seven signifies cosmic completeness, perfection, and union of spiritual with temporal order; Mesopotamia also names a distinct sevenfold 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"symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-sewing", "name": "Sewing", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Sewing denotes the patient joining that mends what was torn and garments a persona, returning at its source to the spinning of a life's thread.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "essay", "registry_id": "sewing", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "sewing", "title": "Sewing", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Fundamentals of Work and Society", "sense_count": 0, "furniture_count": 24, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "sex", "name": "sex", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Sex is treated as a generative ritual and mythic principle linked to fertility, creation, Sacred Marriage, prostitution, and sometimes seasonal conflict or assault.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "sex", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-sexual-union", "name": "Sexual Union", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Sexual union denotes the conjunction of opposites and the third thing it may produce, carrying rapture and dissolution alike, and turning to dominance where hostile.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "sexual-union", "title": "Sexual Union", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "shamrock", "name": "shamrock", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Shamrock signifies triadic unity, the sun-wheel, Christian Trinity, Saint Patrick, and Ireland; four-leaved forms add luck to the three-leaved plant's hope and loyalty.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "shamrock", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "shape-shifting", "name": "Shape-shifting", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Shape-shifting is the magical ability to alter form, attributed to Thetis and to some fairies, witches, and wizards, though many fairies lack it.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "shape-shifting", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "shark", "name": "Shark", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Shark denotes danger, evil, and death at sea; Maya material instead treats it as a familiar sea-and-river animal named xoc.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "shark", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "shaving", "name": "Shaving", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Shaving, especially tonsure, signifies renouncing worldly generative power for ascetic consecration, spiritual transformation, newborn purity, or the Christian crown of thorns.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "shaving", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "sheaf", "name": "Sheaf", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Sheaf signifies harvest and autumn, while its binding expresses unity, integrated strength, limitation, control, and attachment to embodied existence.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "sheaf", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "shears", "name": "Shears", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Shears signify fate and death, especially the blade of Atropos or Fury that cuts the spun thread of life.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "shears", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "sheep", "name": "Sheep", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Sheep can signify spring, innocence, gentleness, and the Christian faithful, but also helpless conformity; Irish folklore finds them sparse in myth and sometimes unlucky.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "sheep", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "sheep", "title": "Sheep", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Domestic Animals", "sense_count": 13, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "2_ao_ao", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Guarani folklore, Ao Ao is a monstrous sheep with sharp fangs." }, { "id": "2_huallepen", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "Hailing from Mapuche mythology in Chile, the Huallepen is depicted as a creature with the body of a sheep, human-like hands, and a distorted face." } ] }, { "slug": "shell", "name": "shell", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Shell signifies the feminine watery matrix, birth, fertility, moon, virginity, resurrection, and pilgrimage; Mesoamerican elites also valued shells as tribute and sacred deposits.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "shell", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "shell", "title": "Shell", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Water Creatures", "sense_count": 4, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "shepherd", "name": "Shepherd", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Shepherd is an archetype of leadership, protection, salvation, and soul-guidance, widely applied to gods, kings, culture heroes, and compassionate religious figures.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "shepherd", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-shipwreck", "name": "Shipwreck", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Shipwreck denotes the failure of the vessel meant to carry one across, inundation by what cannot be navigated, and the punishment of overreaching confidence.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "essay", "domain": { "id": "shipwreck", "title": "Shipwreck", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Movement and Expression", "sense_count": 0, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "shirt", "name": "Shirt", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Shirt shares its wearer's body and soul; the sleeveless, neckless shirt given Agamemnon embodies ritual entrapment and sacrificial vulnerability.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "shirt", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-shoe", "name": "Shoe", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The shoe denotes the shod foot of civilisation, marking rank, ownership and travel, carried off in tales of recognition, and magically swift in seven- league form.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "shoe", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "shoe", "title": "Shoe", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Tools and Other Objects", "sense_count": 12, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "g1_leprechaun", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "He is frequently pictured mending a single shoe, and the tapping of his cobbler's hammer is said to be the sound by which he can be located." } ] }, { "slug": "shofar", "name": "shofar", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Shofar is the Hebrew ram's horn announcing New Year, atonement, Jubilee, and fasts, with meanings of sacrificial substitution, liberation, warning, and war.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "shofar", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "shout", "name": "shout", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Shout is a vocal sign of divine arrival or Pan's wild presence; the other citation discusses stellar omens and supplies no relevant association.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "shout", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "sicily", "name": "Sicily", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Sicily is the fertile mythic setting of Persephone's abduction, Venus at Etna, Enceladus's burial, and journeys of Hercules and Ulysses.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "sicily", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "sickle", "name": "Sickle", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Sickle joins agricultural fertility with mortality and judgment, serving as the Reaper's blade, Cronus's emblem of time, a royal sign, and mythic weapon.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "sickle", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "siegfried", "name": "Siegfried", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Siegfried is a solar culture hero and wanderer slain by Hagen after abandoning Brunhild; the other citation concerns Irish sidhe and appears unrelated.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "caveats": [ "homonym" ], "registry_id": "siegfried", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-silence", "name": "Silence", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Silence denotes the held quiet in which a higher truth may be heard, kept as a rule in contemplative traditions, answering beyond words and wordlessness.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "silence", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "silence", "title": "Silence", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Sound", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 15, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "sin-eater", "name": "sin-eater", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "A sin-eater is a paid funerary scapegoat who consumes food placed over a corpse, thereby assuming the deceased's sins; the second citation is unrelated.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "caveats": [ "homonym" ], "registry_id": "sin-eater", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-siren", "name": "Siren", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The siren denotes song that lures a traveller fatally off course, answering an unlived longing and obliterating the memory of where one meant to go.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "creature", "domain" ], "registry_id": "siren", "census": { "class": "creature", "status": "canon", "canon_id": "2_siren" }, "canon_creature": "2_siren", "domain": { "id": "siren", "title": "Siren", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Mythical Beings", "sense_count": 23, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "g2_iara", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Brazilian folklore, Iara is an Amazonian river siren, often described as half-woman and half-fish, who lures fishermen with her singing voice and drags them beneath the water to their death." } ] }, { "slug": "siva", "name": "Siva", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Siva is a Hindu deity developed from Vedic Rudra, associated here with sacrifice, healing, song, solar brilliance, fire, and storm; the second citation is unrelated.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "caveats": [ "homonym" ], "registry_id": "siva", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "six", "name": "SIX", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Six signifies equilibrium, harmony, creation, and balanced union of opposites, often expressed by interlaced triangles and associated with love, health, beauty, and luck.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "six", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "sixty", "name": "SIXTY", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Sixty denotes measured time and a complete round number, representing longevity in Egypt and the full cycle of Chinese stems and branches.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "sixty", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "skeleton", "name": "Skeleton", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Skeleton signifies death, mortality, vanity, and time's passage; with Saturn or the Reaper it cuts life short, while alchemy makes it black putrefaction.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "skeleton", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "skin", "name": "Skin", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Skin signifies material embodiment and transferable animal power; ritual wearing or shedding it expresses fertility, initiation, rejuvenation, rebirth, instinctive knowledge, and immortality.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "skin", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "skin", "title": "Skin", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 7, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "bridger-sky", "name": "Sky", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The sky denotes the vault arched over the earth, dwelling of the high god or the god itself, withdrawn upward after an early nearness.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "sky", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "sky", "title": "Sky", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Air — Wind and Weather", "sense_count": 23, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "sleeping-beauty", "name": "Sleeping Beauty", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Sleeping Beauty names European tale type 410, while another source groups dormant treasure guardians and Christian holy sleepers under the same heading.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "sleeping-beauty", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "slug", "name": "Slug", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Slug signifies primordial life, seed, semen, and moisture, but its slow movement also makes it an attribute of sloth and darkness seeking light.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "slug", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "smith", "name": "Smith", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Smith is a sacred creator, fire-master, initiator, and culture hero linked to thunder, though some pastoral traditions regard the craft as unclean or malevolent.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "smith", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "snail", "name": "Snail", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Snail signifies lunar recurrence, labyrinthine inwardness, birth, sexuality, sensitivity, and transience, but its slowness also represents sloth and sin.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "snail", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "snail", "title": "Snail", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Primordial Creatures", "sense_count": 8, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "snake", "name": "Snake", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Snake is a broad serpent symbol of creation and guardianship; South American traditions name Snake a primordial earth-maker and giver of hunting arts.", "attestations": 5, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "snake", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "snake", "title": "Snake", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Water Creatures", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "1_altamaha-ha", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "Its body is elongated and sinuous, reminiscent of a giant eel or snake, allowing it to glide effortlessly through the murky waters of the river." }, { "id": "1_basilisk", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "This mythical beast is said to be born from a spherical, yolkless egg laid by a rooster and incubated by a toad or snake." }, { "id": "1_grootslang", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Hailing from South African legends, this elephant-snake hybrid dwells in dark caves." }, { "id": "1_peuchen", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Chilean myths describe this shapeshifting creature resembling a flying snake." }, { "id": "1_quetzalcoatl", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Revered as a creator and a benefactor to humanity, he's often depicted as a snake with vibrant plumage." }, { "id": "1_tsuchinoko", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Japanese folklore describes this elusive, snake-like creature as having a distinct, stout body." }, { "id": "2_bashe", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Chinese folklore, Bashe is a snake large enough to devour elephants." }, { "id": "2_basilisco_chilote", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "This mythical beast is a unique fusion of serpent and rooster, embodying the cunning of a snake and the vigilance of a cockerel." }, { "id": "2_bessie", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Lake Erie's resident monster, Bessie, is a long snake-like creature often spotted in the waters." }, { "id": "2_cockatrice", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "Legend has it that the Cockatrice is born from an egg laid by a rooster and incubated by a toad or snake under specific astrological conditions." }, { "id": "2_feathered_serpent", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Prevalent in Mesoamerican cultures, the Feathered Serpent is a snake adorned with quetzal feathers." }, { "id": "2_gorgon", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Greek mythology, Gorgons are women with snakes for hair." }, { "id": "2_hoop_snake", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In American folklore, the Hoop snake is a unique serpent that grasps its tail in its mouth, forming a circle to roll swiftly after its prey." }, { "id": "2_horned_serpent", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Horned Serpent appears in various Indigenous American mythologies, often depicted as a large snake with antlers." }, { "id": "2_hydrus", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Hydrus possesses a slender, elongated body reminiscent of an eel or water snake, allowing it to move with fluid grace through the aquatic environment." }, { "id": "2_jaculus", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "This airborne assault tactic has earned it the nickname 'javelin snake,' a testament to its swift and lethal nature." }, { "id": "2_mushusshu", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Scholars generally identify this figure with the mušḫuššu, a name attested in Akkadian and Sumerian texts meaning something like \"reddish snake\" or \"fierce snake,\" which appears throughout Mesopotamian art and literature as a hybrid guardian creature rather than a beast native to any natural landscape." }, { "id": "2_nāga", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "These serpentine creatures are characterized by their unique appearance: possessing the body of a snake, often depicted with multiple heads, and featuring a human-like face." }, { "id": "2_seps", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Its immense size dwarfs even the largest known snakes, with legends describing it as capable of encircling entire mountains or valleys within its massive coils." }, { "id": "2_tatzelwurm", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "With the sinuous body of a snake and the distinctive face of a cat, this enigmatic being is said to inhabit the remote, craggy peaks and dense forests of the European Alps." }, { "id": "g1_amaru", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The name derives from Quechua and Aymara and denotes a mythic serpent distinct from ordinary snakes, one of the oldest and most persistent figures in Andean cosmology, predating the Inca state and absorbed into its imperial religious order." }, { "id": "g1_medusa", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Medusa is depicted with living, venomous snakes in place of hair, and her face is so monstrous that any mortal who looks directly upon it turns to stone." }, { "id": "g2_mami_wata", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "She is most commonly pictured as a mermaid, with a woman's upper body and a fish's tail, or in some tellings as a snake-charmer, often shown holding or entwined with large serpents; her long, flowing hair and light or fair complexion are recurrent details in visual depictions, particularly in the widely circulated chromolithograph imagery that spread across West Africa from the late 19th and early 20th centuries onward." }, { "id": "g2_nue", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Japanese folklore, the nue is a chimeric yokai with the head of a monkey, the body of a tanuki (or raccoon dog), the limbs of a tiger, and a snake for a tail, whose eerie cry is said to portend misfortune or illness." }, { "id": "g2_rainbow_serpent", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Descriptions of its form vary by region and language group, ranging from an immense serpent to composite forms that blend snake, crocodile, and other features, and it is generally depicted as dwelling permanently in deep, permanent waterholes, from which it is said to emerge in wet-season storms." }, { "id": "g3_ajatar", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "In Finnish folklore, Ajatar is a malevolent forest spirit imagined as a monstrous female serpent or dragon who nurses snakes and spreads sickness to any human who crosses her path." }, { "id": "g3_mucalinda", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Mucalinda is described across Buddhist sources as a naga raja, the ruler of a serpent kingdom said to lie beneath a lake or in a subterranean realm, distinct from the ordinary snakes of the visible world." }, { "id": "g4_lik", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Lik is the vast water snake of Gran Chaco tradition, so ancient and so still that moss and palms are said to grow along its back, and understood as the guardian of the river's fish." }, { "id": "g4_takshaka", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The episode that fixes him begins with an insult: a king hangs a dead snake on a meditating sage, and the sage's son curses him to die of snakebite within seven days." }, { "id": "g7_herensugue", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Basque serpent-demon, met with seven heads, or as a snake flying through the air, or as a dragon, depending on the work it has come to do." }, { "id": "g7_nehebkau", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Nehebkau is a primeval snake god of Egypt, and the single detail the corpus supplies about him is a genuinely good one: his image could carry a snake's body fitted with arms, or with legs." } ] }, { "slug": "snakes", "name": "SNAKES", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Snakes carry opposed meanings of creation and chaos, poison and protection, while skin-shedding signifies renewal; some ancient images may have no religious meaning.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "snakes", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "sneezing", "name": "sneezing", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Sneezing is a soul-breath omen whose possible loss of life-force prompts blessings and divination; the other citation actually concerns snake fertility.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "sneezing", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "snipe", "name": "Snipe", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Snipe can mean a fool or simpleton; lumberjack folklore instead makes it an elusive nocturnal quarry used to strand novices during prank hunts.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "snipe", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "snow", "name": "Snow", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Snow signifies cold, deathlike whiteness, chastity, or frigidity, yet its protective covering preserves fertility and its thaw can express renewal and softened feeling.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "snow", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "snow", "title": "Snow", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Air — Wind and Weather", "sense_count": 5, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "snowdrop", "name": "Snowdrop", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Snowdrop heralds spring and Candlemas, signifying purity, humility, and hope; Christian art associates the flower with Mary's innocence.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "snowdrop", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "solon", "name": "Solon", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Solon is the Greek legislator and one of the Seven Sages, associated with the teaching that happiness can be judged only at life's end.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "solon", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-solstice", "name": "Solstice", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The solstice denotes the turning point where the sun stops and reverses, marking a limit reached, and at midwinter the birth of light in darkness.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "solstice", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "solstice", "title": "Solstice", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Fire — Light and Darkness", "sense_count": 3, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "son", "name": "Son", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Son symbolizes a living double, image, or alter ego; the other citation is misaligned and discusses song rather than sonship.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "son", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "sophia", "name": "Sophia", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Sophia denotes divine creative wisdom and the Gnostic divine anima fallen into matter; another citation instead names the historical empress who opposed Narses.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "caveats": [ "homonym" ], "registry_id": "sophia", "census": { "class": "person", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "sow", "name": "Sow", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Sow signifies the Great Goddess's fecundity and darker lunar, devouring aspect; Greek myth also names the Crommyonian sow killed by Theseus.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "caveats": [ "homonym" ], "registry_id": "sow", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "sowing", "name": "Sowing", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Sowing signifies dissemination and creation by placing seed in Earth Mother, with fertility rites joining sexual generation, seasonal mourning, death, and renewal.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "sowing", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "sowing", "title": "Sowing", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Fundamentals of Work and Society", "sense_count": 12, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "spark", "name": "Spark", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Spark signifies the vital spiritual principle, soul, and fire, an individual emanation scattered from the divine center into the phenomenal world.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "spark", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "spark", "title": "Spark", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Fire — Light and Darkness", "sense_count": 3, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "spear", "name": "Spear", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Spear is a solar world-axis joining heaven and earth, symbolizing masculine fertility, royalty, warlike prowess, magical power, initiation, and Christ's Passion.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "spear", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "spear", "title": "Spear", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Tools and Other Objects", "sense_count": 14, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "bridger-sperm", "name": "Sperm", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Sperm denotes the lavish generative surplus of which one alone arrives, imagined as distilled from the purest blood and as seed cast into the furrow.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "essay", "domain": { "id": "sperm", "title": "Sperm", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 0, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "sphere", "name": "Sphere", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Sphere signifies perfection, eternity, cosmic totality, creative motion, and primordial possibility; it is heaven's vault, the world-soul, and Atlas's mythic burden.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "sphere", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-spider", "name": "Spider", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The spider denotes the weaver at the centre of its own made world, patient trap and creating grandmother alike, spinning what catches and connects.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "spider", "census": { "class": "creature", "status": "candidate", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "spider", "title": "Spider", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Arachnids and Insects", "sense_count": 4, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "1_anansi", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In West African and Caribbean folklore, this trickster god often takes the form of a spider." }, { "id": "2_tsuchigumo", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Tsuchigumo, from Japanese mythology, is depicted as a monstrous spider, capable of transforming into a warrior monk to deceive its prey." }, { "id": "g2_jorōgumo", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Japanese folklore, the Jorōgumo is a spider yokai that can shapeshift into a beautiful woman to lure travelers close before binding and devouring them." } ] }, { "slug": "spine", "name": "Spine", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Spine signifies support, courage, life-force, and the world axis, appearing as Osiris's djed and as Kundalini's serpentine path through the body.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "spine", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "spine", "title": "Spine", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 7, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "spiral", "name": "spiral", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Spiral expresses dynamic cycles of expansion and contraction, birth and death, solar-lunar change, weather, fertility, creative energy, and the soul's return to center.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "spiral", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "spiral", "title": "Spiral", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Rituals and Sacred Systems", "sense_count": 23, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "spire", "name": "Spire", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Spire signifies heavenly aspiration, a world-axis and creative bridge upward; its pointed form can be phallic or represent God's finger directing attention heavenward.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "spire", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "spirit", "name": "Spirit", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Spirit variously means incorporeal life-force, ideal perfection, Holy Ghost, disembodied essence, or a lesser supernatural presence inhabiting and influencing places, objects, and human experience.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "spirit", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "spittle", "name": "Spittle", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Spittle signifies personality and life-substance, carrying creative, healing, protective, and oath-sealing power, though hostile magic can weaponize it and spitting may express contempt.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "spittle", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "spleen", "name": "Spleen", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Spleen represents volatile emotion—sexual passion, laughter, anger, ill-humor, and melancholy—while Chinese symbolism counts it among the Eight Treasures associated with earth.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "spleen", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "spoon", "name": "Spoon", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Spoon can represent feminine or combined sexual principles and monotonously measured life; Hindu sacrifice assigns this utensil to Brahma and Agni.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "spoon", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "springwort", "name": "springwort", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Springwort is an uncertain magical plant, perhaps spurge or mandrake, obtained through a woodpecker and credited with fertility, opening barriers, and revealing treasure.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "springwort", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "square", "name": "Square", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Square signifies earth, matter, fourfold order, stability, limitation, and integrity, forming the permanent enclosure and measured foundation through which sacred architecture manifests creation.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "square", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "squirrel", "name": "Squirrel", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Squirrel signifies nimbleness, thrift, or greed; traditions also associate it with fertility, Medb, weather, and Ratatosk's mischievous messages between cosmic enemies.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "squirrel", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "sraddha", "name": "SRADDHA", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Sraddha means faith personified as Daksha's daughter and Dharma's wife, but also names the Hindu rite feeding and integrating ancestral or newly dead spirits.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "caveats": [ "homonym" ], "registry_id": "sraddha", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "staff", "name": "Staff", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Staff signifies guidance, authority, magic, pilgrimage, solar fertility, and the world axis, serving shepherds, rulers, clerics, judges, heralds, and religious teachers.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "staff", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "stag", "name": "Stag", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Stag signifies solar renewal, virility, royalty, medicine, and divine guidance, often opposing the serpent as spirit over matter or light over darkness.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "stag", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "stairs", "name": "Stairs", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Stairs signify ascension, transcendence, and movement between spiritual levels; spiral or winding forms add solar motion, mystery, and passage toward an unknown center.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "stairs", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-stairway", "name": "Stairway", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The stairway denotes ascent and descent in measured stages, bridging earth to heaven on a temple face and leading down through a psyche's floors.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "stairway", "title": "Stairway", "world": "Human World", "sub": "House and Home", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "stake", "name": "Stake", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Stake signifies torture, burning, martyrdom, or a fertility king's death, while folklore uses it to pin dangerous revenants and Christian art marks saints' deaths.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "stake", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "star", "name": "Star", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Star signifies divine presence, eternal soul, hope, and guidance against darkness, while its position and number of points encode many distinct sacred traditions.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "star", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "star", "title": "Star", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Cosmos", "sense_count": 23, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "starfish", "name": "Starfish", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Starfish signifies inexhaustible divine love and grace, serving as a protective emblem of charity, the Holy Spirit, and Mary in her sea-star title.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "starfish", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "stars-and-planets", "name": "Stars and Planets", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Stars and planets manifest deities and the enduring dead in Egyptian thought, while Mesoamerican traditions emphasize their carefully observed movements across the visible sky.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "stars-and-planets", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "stem", "name": "Stem", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Stem represents the manifest middle world and world-axis linking underworld roots to heavenly branches, with its upright growth also carrying phallic meaning.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "stem", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "steps", "name": "Steps", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Steps signify ascension, ranked spiritual levels, and communion between earth and heaven, marking authorized passage from profane space toward sacred centers or cosmic stages.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "steps", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "stockfish", "name": "Stockfish", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Stockfish is dried cod used heraldically for Iceland; figuratively, its thinness, pre-cooking beating, and dryness denote gauntness, battering, or lack of sexual desire.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "stockfish", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "stole", "name": "Stole", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Stole is a priestly emblem of Christ's yoke, obedience, patience, immortality, authority, and dignity, though historically the word also names a Roman matron's garment.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "caveats": [ "homonym" ], "registry_id": "stole", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "stomach", "name": "Stomach", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Stomach signifies learning, endurance, stubborn courage, anger, and resentment in European imagery; Chinese tradition represents it among the Eight Treasures by a sacred jar.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "stomach", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-stone", "name": "Stone", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Stone denotes hardness, permanence and foundation, closed against entry and therefore inviting meaning, raised upright to make a presence where there was only ground.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "stone", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "stone", "title": "Stone", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Earth", "sense_count": 17, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "2_asag", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "This monstrous rock demon is not merely a creature of stone, but a living manifestation of geological fury." }, { "id": "g2_trauco", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "He is typically dressed in ragged bark-cloth or plant-fiber clothing and carries a small stone axe, which in some tellings he uses to fell trees or to strike fear into anyone who intrudes on his forest haunts." }, { "id": "g6_boraro", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Boraro are tall, pallid cannibal monsters of Tukano tradition in the Amazon, with backward-turned feet, no knees, glowing red eyes, and stone weapons for hunting humans." }, { "id": "g6_lia_fail", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Lia Fail is the Stone of Destiny of the Tuatha De Danann, brought from Falias to Tara, that cried aloud beneath the rightful king of Ireland." } ] }, { "slug": "stork", "name": "Stork", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Stork signifies filial piety, domestic harmony, fertility, spring renewal, chastity, and long life, while heraldry often shows it holding a snake.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "stork", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "storm", "name": "Storm", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Storm signifies divine creative power, joining elements through fertilizing rain, thunder's sacred voice, and lightning's illumination; destructive weather can also express divine will.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "storm", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "storm", "title": "Storm", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Air — Wind and Weather", "sense_count": 3, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "denotation_neighbours": [ { "slug": "lightning", "evidence": "Storm signifies divine creative power, joining elements through fertilizing rain, thunder's sacred voice, and lightning's illumination; destructive weather can also express divine will." } ] }, { "slug": "bridger-stranger", "name": "Stranger", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The stranger denotes the unknown arriving at the threshold, feared as contamination and received as sacred, and often the god or the future in disguise.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "stranger", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "stranger", "title": "Stranger", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Fundamentals of Work and Society", "sense_count": 3, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "g4_bochica", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Bochica belongs to the Muisca of the Colombian highlands, and appears in the colonial-era accounts as a bearded stranger who arrives from the east, travels among the people, and teaches them — weaving, agriculture, the making of things, and the ordering of law and worship." } ] }, { "slug": "strawberry", "name": "strawberry", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Strawberry signifies love, righteousness, spiritual fruit, hidden joy, and aristocratic rank, while folklore links it to Frigga, Mary, fairies, dead children, and prosperity.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "strawberry", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-street", "name": "Street", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The street denotes the circulation of a settlement and the chance encounters it permits, belonging to everyone and nobody, and home only to the dispossessed.", "attestations": 1, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "domain": { "id": "street", "title": "Street", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Buildings and Monuments", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "domain_slug" }, { "slug": "stupa", "name": "stupa", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Stupa is a sacred monument embodying Buddhist doctrine, enlightenment, and Nirvana through an ascent from earth and layered existence to heaven and the world-axis.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "stupa", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "sturgeon", "name": "Sturgeon", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Sturgeon 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obliterating despair or shame, condemned in one tradition, held dignified in another, and never private.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "essay", "registry_id": "suicide", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "suicide", "title": "Suicide", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Sickness and Death", "sense_count": 0, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "sulphur", "name": "Sulphur", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Sulphur denotes alchemical fiery spirit and masculine purification, vital heat and action; Christian tradition instead links it to hell and the Devil.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "sulphur", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-sun", "name": "Sun", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The sun denotes the light that makes a world visible and the consciousness knowing it, guardian of order whose ferocity equally scorches and maddens.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "sun", "census": { "class": "deity", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "sun", "title": "Sun", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Cosmos", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "sun-dance", "name": "Sun Dance", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The Sun Dance denotes solar regeneration, creation, bodily and cosmic rhythms; sources also associate regional rites with planting, crops, and acquiring solar power.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "sun-dance", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "sunflower", "name": "Sunflower", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The sunflower denotes devotion to the sun, constancy and longevity, but also infatuation, unreliability, and deceptive wealth across traditions.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "sunflower", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-sunrise", "name": "Sunrise", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Sunrise denotes birth and new beginning, the direction by which one is oriented, and the daily return of consciousness from sleep's nightly small death.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "sunrise", "title": "Sunrise", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Fire — Light and Darkness", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "bridger-sunset", "name": "Sunset", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Sunset denotes the daily descent into the underworld, completion of a cycle or decline of a life, and the start of a passage through darkness.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "essay", "domain": { "id": "sunset", "title": "Sunset", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Fire — Light and Darkness", "sense_count": 0, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "swan", "name": "Swan", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The swan denotes a union of air and water, opposites, solar life, purity, poetry, fertility, and spiritual breath; heraldry uses it decoratively.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "swan", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "creatures": [ { "id": "g2_vila", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "Vile are consistently described as skilled shape-shifters, able to take the form of a swan, a horse, a wolf, a falcon, or a whirlwind, and some tellings hold that a Vila can be captured or bound by stealing her wings, veil, or a lock of her hair while she bathes or dances, a motif shared with swan-maiden tales found elsewhere in Europe." } ] }, { "slug": "swastika", "name": "swastika", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The swastika denotes ancient solar motion, directions, fertility, protection, good fortune, and religious blessing, though Mesopotamian evidence is rare and interpretations vary.", "attestations": 5, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "swastika", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-swimming", "name": "Swimming", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Swimming denotes return to the water one came from, buoyed and encompassed by something larger, figuring an ego navigating depths that might dissolve it.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "swimming", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "swimming", "title": "Swimming", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Movement and Expression", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "swine", "name": "Swine", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Swine denotes fertility and recurring abundance in some traditions, but greed, ignorance, sensuality, uncleanness, and untamed appetite in others.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "swine", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "swinging", "name": "Swinging", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Swinging denotes fertility rites and the alternating fortunes of life, with hanging figures understood as later substitutes for sacrifice.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "swinging", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "sword", "name": "Sword", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The sword denotes authority, protection, justice, solar heroism, and decisive intellect, while its two edges join creation with destruction and life with death.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "sword", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "sword", "title": "Sword", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Tools and Other Objects", "sense_count": 26, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "sycamore", "name": "Sycamore", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The sycamore denotes fertility, nourishment, abundance, and the Egyptian Tree of Life, especially through associations with Hathor, Nut, and Osiris.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], 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"sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "tablet", "name": "Tablet", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The tablet denotes law, divine command, recorded destiny, esoteric authority, and a resting place for ancestral souls.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "tablet", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "tabor", "name": "Tabor", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Tabor denotes either a small ecstatic or festive drum, or Mount Tabor, which legend calls high enough to survive the Flood.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "tabor", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "tail", "name": "Tail", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The tail denotes animal vitality and mood, fertility, and false prophecy, while another tradition emphasizes balance, guidance, 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"canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "tarot", "name": "Tarot", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Tarot denotes a variable esoteric card system used for divination and mapping material and spiritual experience toward enlightenment.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "tarot", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-tears", "name": "Tears", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Tears denote grief made visible and the comfort it calls out, salted like the sea one came from, softening what has hardened in a person.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "essay", "domain": { "id": "tears", "title": "Tears", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 0, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "bridger-teeth", "name": "Teeth", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Teeth denote the capacity to seize, bite and hold, bared in threat or defence, and dreamt falling when the power to grasp life feels compromised.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "teeth", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "teeth", "title": "Teeth", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 3, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "bridger-telephone", "name": "Telephone", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The telephone denotes speech carried beyond earshot, one instrument always implying an absent other, and reaching by turns as intimacy, summons, intrusion or threat.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "telephone", "title": "Telephone", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Tools and Other Objects", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "temple", "name": "temple", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The temple denotes a sacred world-center joining cosmic levels and divinity with worshippers; Mesoamerican temples also housed offerings, communication, and royal commemoration.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "temple", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "temple", "title": "Temple", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Buildings and Monuments", "sense_count": 10, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "tent", "name": "Tent", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The tent denotes protective enclosure, the body around spirit, the world, the heavens, and temple or tabernacle symbolism.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "tent", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "denotation_neighbours": [ { "slug": "tabernacle", "evidence": "The tent denotes protective enclosure, the body around spirit, the world, the heavens, and temple or tabernacle symbolism." } ] }, { "slug": "tetramorph", "name": "Tetramorph", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The tetramorph denotes the fourfold eagle, lion, human, and ox emblem, associated with the Evangelists, elements, directions, zodiac, and aspects of humanity.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "tetramorph", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "the-cormorant", "name": "the cormorant", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The cormorant denotes desolation and insatiable appetite in one source, while Chinese tradition describes eating a fantastic cormorant to aid conception.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "the-cormorant", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "the-partridge", "name": "the partridge", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The partridge denotes fertility, readiness for war, and conflicting Christian truth or deceit; one Chinese account credits its flesh with preventing blindness.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "the-partridge", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "the-pie", "name": "the pie", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The pie denotes nursery-rhyme pastries in one source but a Chinese kingfisher-like bird whose presence or use protects against fire in another.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "the-pie", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "the-wagtail", "name": "the wagtail", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The wagtail denotes amorousness and comeliness in one source, while a Chinese account describes a black, red-footed bird used against wrinkles.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "the-wagtail", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-thief", "name": "Thief/Robber", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The thief denotes the force that takes what was held secure, punished as crime yet sacred where a culture hero steals hoarded treasure to share.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "thief", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "thief", "title": "Thief/Robber", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Fundamentals of Work and Society", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "thigh", "name": "Thigh", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The thigh denotes strength, procreative power, offspring, and phallic vitality; crossed thigh-bones with a skull instead signify death and retained magical force.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "thigh", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "thigh", "title": "Thigh", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 3, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "thirteen", "name": "THIRTEEN", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Thirteen denotes sacred lunar renewal and Mesoamerican calendrical or divinatory order, yet Christian and European traditions often associate it with death or ill fortune.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "thirteen", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "thistle", "name": "thistle", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The thistle denotes austerity, defiance, rejection, and Scotland; Christian imagery associates its prickles with sin, earthly sorrow, evil, and Christ’s suffering.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "thistle", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "thistle", "title": "Thistle", "world": "Plant World", "sub": "Magical Plants and Flowers", "sense_count": 8, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "thorn", "name": "Thorn", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The thorn denotes deprivation, suffering, and sin, but also the arduous road to salvation and the conjunction of pain with pleasure.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "thorn", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "thread", "name": "Thread", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Thread denotes life, fate, continuity, cosmic connection, and an axial path through the world toward wisdom or transcendence.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "thread", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "thread", "title": "Thread", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Tools and Other Objects", "sense_count": 10, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "threshing", "name": "Threshing", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Threshing denotes harvest, fertility, seasonal death, and hoped-for renewal; the threshing floor separates value from waste and mirrors cosmic rotation.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "threshing", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "throne", "name": "throne", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The throne denotes spiritual and temporal authority, justice, stability, and a world-center linking sovereign, subject, heaven, and earth.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "throne", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "chair", "title": "Chair/Throne", "world": "Human World", "sub": "House and Home", "sense_count": 5, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ], "bundles": [ "Chair" ] }, "joined_by": "title_bundle" }, { "slug": "thule", "name": "Thule", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Thule denotes the farthest northern land and an imagined primordial spiritual center, paradise, blessed island, or junction between celestial and terrestrial realms.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "thule", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "thumb", "name": "Thumb", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The thumb denotes power and its transmission, with upward and downward gestures conveying opposite fortunes; other lore links it to gardening, trade, and wealth.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "thumb", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-thunder", "name": "Thunder", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Thunder denotes the voice of the high god heard as anger, assent or presence, a shock that disorients and wakes, and the herald of rain.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "thunder", "census": { "class": "deity", "status": "candidate", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "thunder", "title": "Thunder", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Air — Wind and Weather", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "g7_tupan", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Tupi-Guarani thunder demon, squat and wavy-haired, whose name the missionaries took for the Christian God and which now means sacred." } ] }, { "slug": "thyme", "name": "thyme", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Thyme denotes activity, diligence, martial protection, love-fertility, and fairy associations; the second citation instead discusses thunderbirds.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "thyme", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "tide", "name": "tide", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The tide denotes natural reciprocity, opportunity, and returning balance, while ebb and turning tides carry associations with death and departing souls.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "tide", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "tiger", "name": "tiger", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The tiger denotes royal strength, courage, cruelty, and ambivalent solar or lunar power, serving as protector in some traditions and destroyer in others.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "tiger", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "tigris", "name": "Tigris", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Tigris denotes the paradisal river of fertility, refreshment, strength, and wisdom in one source, but a dog-wolf hybrid of Actaeon in another.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "tigris", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "time", "name": "Time", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Time denotes both creator and devourer, cyclic return and worldly destruction; its ending opens eternity, while its passage reveals truth.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "time", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "tin", "name": "Tin", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Tin denotes Jupiter and Sagittarius, but also debased silver or dross requiring purification.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "tin", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "tiresias", "name": "Tiresias", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Tiresias is the blind Greek seer whose taboo-breaking sight became inward prophecy, linked to signs, a divining staff, and experience of both sexes.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "tiresias", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "titan", "name": "Titan", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Titan denotes primordial, untamed forces of nature and manifestation, characterized by conflict, ambition, envy, and eventual defeat.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "titan", "census": { "class": "creature", "status": "candidate", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-toad", "name": "Toad", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The toad denotes the frog's infernal inversion, lunar, gravid and venomous, a witch's familiar in the West and in China an emblem of longevity.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "toad", "census": { "class": "creature", "status": "candidate", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "toad", "title": "Toad", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Water Creatures", "sense_count": 7, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "tobacco", "name": "tobacco", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Tobacco denotes a major Indigenous American ritual plant used for offerings and consumption; other associations include brief pleasure, forgetfulness, Mars, and diabolism.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "tobacco", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-toilet", "name": "Toilet", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The toilet denotes the receptacle for what the body must release, a private seat of relief or inhibition, containing a base and generative prima materia.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "toilet", "title": "Toilet", "world": "Human World", "sub": "House and Home", "sense_count": 4, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "tomb", "name": "Tomb", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The tomb denotes earth’s womb, sheltering and death-dealing maternity, bodily confinement, mortification, and the hope of transformation or regeneration.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "tomb", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "tonal", "name": "tonal", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Tonal denotes a Mesoamerican soul or animal familiar bound to a person’s life and fate, distinct from a transforming nahual.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "creature" ], "registry_id": "tonal", "census": { "class": "spirit", "status": "canon", "canon_id": "g7_tonal" }, "canon_creature": "g7_tonal" }, { "slug": "bridger-tongue", "name": "Tongue", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The tongue denotes eloquence and the power to persuade or wound, tasting and licking into life, and lolling from a devouring goddess to show doubleness.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "tongue", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "tongue", "title": "Tongue", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 5, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "topaz", "name": "Topaz", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Topaz denotes solar divine goodness, wisdom, fidelity, friendship, and love, with varied calendrical and zodiacal correspondences.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "topaz", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "torah", "name": "Torah", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Torah denotes primordial divine teaching and law, sustained through study and, once revealed, entrusted to human interpretation and authority.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "torah", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "torch", "name": "Torch", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The torch denotes illumination, truth, purification, and generative life-fire; upright and inverted forms distinguish life from death, sunrise from sunset, or seasonal change.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "torch", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "tortoise", "name": "Tortoise", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The tortoise denotes fertility, androgyny, caution, and foresight, especially through Egyptian associations with the Nile’s rise; remaining citations provide indexes or unrelated heraldry.", "attestations": 6, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "caveats": [ "homonym" ], "registry_id": "tortoise", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "turtle", "title": "Turtle /Tortoise", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Water Creatures", "sense_count": 8, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ], "bundles": [ "Turtle" ] }, "joined_by": "title_bundle" }, { "slug": "bridger-tower", "name": "Tower", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The tower denotes a built ascent toward heaven, watchpost, refuge and prison at once, whose pride invites the lightning stroke that shatters it.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "tower", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "tower", "title": "Tower", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Buildings and Monuments", "sense_count": 15, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "bridger-train", "name": "Train", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The train denotes coupled momentum on a fixed track, part animal in the imagination, carrying one toward a chosen destination or an unavoidable fate.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "train", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "train", "title": "Train", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Movement and Expression", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "transformation", "name": "Transformation", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Transformation denotes magical changes of form that test identity, often releasing a constrained soul or lower nature through love, trials, or counter-magic.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "transformation", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "transformation", "title": "Transformation", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Soul and Psyche", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "transvestism", "name": "Transvestism", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Transvestism denotes ritual adoption of another gender’s qualities, primordial androgynous unity, and initiatory loss of identity before rebirth.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "transvestism", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "treasure", "name": "Treasure", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Treasure denotes either perilous material desire ending in disaster or a guarded spiritual quest for knowledge, enlightenment, paradise, and one’s true nature.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "treasure", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-tree", "name": "Tree", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The tree denotes rooted growth joining below to above, shelter and mother to what nests in it, and the axis on which worlds are strung.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "tree", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "tree", "title": "Tree", "world": "Plant World", "sub": "Trees", "sense_count": 25, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "2_daidarabotchi", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Its body is said to be composed of the very earth itself, with skin of rough stone, hair of tangled vines and trees, and eyes that shine like the sun and moon." }, { "id": "g5_pitys", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Pitys is a nymph of Greek tradition pursued by Pan and, in the fuller ancient episode, tormented by a jealous Boreas before being transformed into a pine tree to escape him." } ] }, { "slug": "tree-of-life", "name": "Tree of Life", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The Tree of Life denotes an immortal, ever-bearing world-tree at paradise’s center, sheltering sacred learning and embodying all trees across traditions.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "tree-of-life", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "trefoil", "name": "Trefoil", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The trefoil denotes triads and trinity, integration and equilibrium, but also disintegration; it carries masculine generative and Great Goddess associations.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "trefoil", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "triangle", "name": "Triangle", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The triangle denotes threefold cosmic order; upward forms signify masculine fire and spirit, while downward forms signify feminine water, matter, and generative matrix.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "triangle", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "trimurti", "name": "Trimurti", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Trimurti denotes divine power manifested threefold as creation, preservation, and destruction, usually through Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva but varying by sect.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "trimurti", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "tripod", "name": "Tripod", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The tripod denotes prophecy and divine triad, with three legs corresponding to sunrise, noon, sunset, and past, present, future.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "tripod", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "trooping-fairies", "name": "Trooping fairies", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Trooping fairies denotes the folkloric class of communal fairies, contrasted with solitary and sometimes domestic categories and associated with palace-dwelling, song, and dance.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "trooping-fairies", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "trout", "name": "Trout", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The trout denotes Celtic sacred waters, divine foreknowledge, and otherworldly wisdom, alongside young-sun and erotic-dance associations.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "trout", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "trumpet", "name": "trumpet", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The trumpet denotes fame, praise, proclamation, war, terror, death, distant communication, ritual initiation, and calls to spirits.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "trumpet", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "trumpet", "title": "Trumpet/Horn", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Sound", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "truth", "name": "Truth", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Truth denotes exact, morally binding speech in fairy and devil lore; another tale contrasts its lasting value with the deceptive sweetness of lying.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "truth", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "tuathal", "name": "tuathal", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Tuathal denotes counterclockwise or northward ritual movement, understood in Irish cosmology as opposing the sun’s natural order and therefore unlucky.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "tuathal", "census": { "class": "other", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "tulip", "name": "Tulip", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The tulip denotes perfect love, declaration, spring, magnificence, and spirituality, yet also extravagance, separation, and inconstancy.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "tulip", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-tunnel", "name": "Tunnel", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The tunnel denotes the straitened dark passage bored through solid ground, figure of the birth canal and of an ordeal whose only exit is forward.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "tunnel", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "tunnel", "title": "Tunnel", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Buildings and Monuments", "sense_count": 0, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "turkey", "name": "Turkey", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The turkey denotes pride and foolish anger in European imagery, but sacred food, thunder, rain, the dead, and agricultural generosity in Indigenous American traditions.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "turkey", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "turquoise", "name": "turquoise", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Turquoise denotes earth and water, protection, health, courage, prosperity, and friendship; sources also discuss Navajo Turquoise Woman and Mesoamerican trade.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "turquoise", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "turtle", "name": "Turtle", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The turtle denotes world-support, heaven-earth union, longevity, and harvest success, but also slowness, sensuality, cowardice, drought, and hostility to the sun.", "attestations": 7, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "turtle", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "turtle", "title": "Turtle /Tortoise", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Water Creatures", "sense_count": 8, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "1_minogame", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Japanese folklore, this sea turtle is known for its long, algae-covered tail symbolizing longevity." }, { "id": "2_aspidochelone", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In medieval tales, Aspidochelone is a gigantic sea turtle that mimics an island." }, { "id": "2_dragon_turtle", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Chinese folklore, the Dragon Turtle is a hybrid creature." }, { "id": "2_tarasque", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Some accounts even describe it as having a turtle-like shell on its back, adding to its formidable defenses." }, { "id": "g1_kappa", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Kappa is typically described as a small, child-sized humanoid with a turtle-like shell on its back, webbed hands and feet, a beak-like mouth, and scaly or slimy greenish skin." }, { "id": "g3_akupara", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Some tellings extend the image further, describing the tortoise as itself resting upon something else, such as a serpent or the cosmic waters, producing a stacked picture of support beneath support that mythographers have compared to similar world-turtle motifs found in other traditions." } ] }, { "slug": "twelve", "name": "TWELVE", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Twelve denotes a complete cosmic cycle uniting spiritual and temporal order through months, zodiacal signs, hours, tribes, apostles, and seasonal festivals.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "twelve", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "twenty", "name": "TWENTY", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Twenty denotes the whole human through ten fingers and ten toes, while also conveying reckoning, wisdom, intensification, or an indefinite multitude.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "twenty", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "twilight", "name": "Twilight", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Twilight denotes an uncertain threshold between states, joining day with night, danger with new perception, and one cycle’s ending with another’s beginning.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "twilight", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "umbrella", "name": "umbrella", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The umbrella denotes the solar wheel, sky-dome, world-axis, royal or divine authority, and protection; some traditions also connect it with mourning or bad luck.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "umbrella", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "umbrella", "title": "Umbrella/ Parasol", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Tools and Other Objects", "sense_count": 5, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "bridger-unicorn", "name": "Unicorn", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The unicorn denotes untameable solitary purity, single-horned and swift, taken alive only by the trick of a maiden's lap, and appearing where rule is virtuous.", "attestations": 1, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "creature", "domain" ], "registry_id": "unicorn", "census": { "class": "creature", "status": "canon", "canon_id": "1_unicorn" }, "canon_creature": "1_unicorn", "domain": { "id": "unicorn", "title": "Unicorn", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Mythical Beings", "sense_count": 1, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "1_unicorn", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The unicorn, a creature of legendary status, has captivated human imagination for centuries." }, { "id": "g5_kioh_twan", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Kioh Twan, an older transliteration of the beast now usually called Jiaoduan, is a green, deer-bodied unicorn of Chinese legend credited with a horse's tail, a single nasal horn, human speech, and the power to cross vast distances in a single day." }, { "id": "g6_kai_tsi", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Kai Tsi is the one-horned justice beast of East Asian tradition — a lion-like unicorn, also called the divine sheep, that knows right from wrong and gores the guilty." } ] }, { "slug": "uraeus", "name": "Uraeus", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The uraeus denotes Egyptian sovereignty, solar light, life-and-death power, and protection through the flame-spitting cobra worn by gods and rulers.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "uraeus", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "urine", "name": "urine", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Urine is a folk-magical substance constrained by purity taboos and credited in Celtic narratives with creator figures carving gullies and ravines.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "urine", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "urine", "title": "Urine", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "urn", "name": "Urn", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The urn denotes feminine containment, fertility, sacred liquids, death and mourning, resurrection through flame, and fate through its use as a voting vessel.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "urn", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "vajra", "name": "Vajra", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The vajra denotes the Hindu-Buddhist thunderbolt and diamond sceptre: indestructible spiritual power combining destruction with fertilization, compassionate action, and the world-axis.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ] }, { "slug": "valentine", "name": "Valentine", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Valentine denotes a lovers’ festival rooted in spring fertility, courtship lots, gifts, and love-divination; the second citation instead covers Vailala Madness.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "valentine", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "valerian", "name": "Valerian", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Valerian denotes a herb associated with benevolence, love charms, dissimulation, and Hermes; another source instead indexes the Roman emperor Valerian.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "valerian", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "valley", "name": "Valley", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The valley denotes sheltered life, fertility, cultivation, and feminine yin in contrast to the sunny mountain; one citation instead discusses Saint Valentine.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "valley", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "valley", "title": "Valley", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Earth", "sense_count": 10, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "bridger-vampire", "name": "Vampire", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The vampire denotes the dead that will not stay dead, feeding on the living, seductive and repugnant at once, draining what it claims to love.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "vampire", "census": { "class": "creature", "status": "candidate", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "vampire", "title": "Vampire", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Mythical Beings", "sense_count": 3, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "g1_jiangshi", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The jiangshi, sometimes rendered in English as the \"Chinese hopping vampire\" or \"hopping corpse,\" is a reanimated cadaver from Chinese folklore, with roots in Qing dynasty tales and older Taoist and folk-religious ideas about the human soul." }, { "id": "g2_adze", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The neighboring Akan have their own distinct witch-vampire figures, the obayifo and the forest-dwelling Asasabonsam, which are separate but comparable beings rather than variants of the Adze itself." }, { "id": "g2_aswang", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Philippine folklore, the Aswang is an umbrella term for a shapeshifting ghoul or vampire figure that hunts by night, disguises itself as an ordinary neighbor by day, and preys on corpses, organs, and the unborn." }, { "id": "g2_strigoi", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Romanian folklore, the Strigoi is a restless, blood-drinking undead being said to rise from the grave to torment the living, widely regarded as a direct folkloric ancestor of the literary vampire." }, { "id": "g6_mormo", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In that nursery office she passed from Greece to Rome and far outlived her own monstrosity, dwindling from vampire to bogey while keeping the same name." } ] }, { "slug": "vase", "name": "Vase", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The vase denotes cosmic waters, receptive maternity, fertility, the heart, and life-giving abundance; flame, wine, flowers, or emptiness modify its meaning.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "vase", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "vegetation", "name": "Vegetation", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Vegetation denotes slow material growth, unconscious life, nourishment, fertility, abundance, and the recurring passage through death into resurrection.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "vegetation", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-veil", "name": "Veil", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The veil denotes what conceals and thereby marks as sacred, guarding a face, a truth or a deity, and figuring appearance that hides the real.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "veil", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "veil", "title": "Veil", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Tools and Other Objects", "sense_count": 9, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "g2_vila", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Vile are consistently described as skilled shape-shifters, able to take the form of a swan, a horse, a wolf, a falcon, or a whirlwind, and some tellings hold that a Vila can be captured or bound by stealing her wings, veil, or a lock of her hair while she bathes or dances, a motif shared with swan-maiden tales found elsewhere in Europe." } ] }, { "slug": "vervain", "name": "vervain", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Vervain denotes a sacred solar and divine herb used for purification, good omens, altars, bridal rites, protection, and healing.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "vervain", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "viper", "name": "Viper", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The viper denotes treachery, ingratitude, poisonous danger, and malefic serpent symbolism, though its body was also credited with counter-magic.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "viper", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "virgin", "name": "Virgin", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The virgin denotes primordial innocence, sacred inviolability, and receptive earth; virgin birth joins divine and human powers to produce light or higher consciousness.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "virgin", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "virgo", "name": "Virgo", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Virgo denotes the mutable-earth celestial virgin, linked to wisdom, fertility goddesses, ripened grain, motherhood, and the late-summer zodiac.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "virgo", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-vomit", "name": "Vomit", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Vomit denotes what cannot be contained and must come up, purging of poison in ritual and body alike, and the disgorging that ends an incubation.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "domain": { "id": "vomit", "title": "Vomit", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Sickness and Death", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": null }, { "slug": "vulture", "name": "Vulture", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The vulture denotes maternal shelter and purification through scavenging, yet also voracity and death; South American myth further associates it with stolen fire.", "attestations": 6, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "vulture", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-vulva", "name": "Vulva", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The vulva denotes the opening through which life enters the world, threshold between the hidden side and this one, and is worshipped as the yoni.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "vulva", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "vulva", "title": "Vulva", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "wall", "name": "Wall", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The wall denotes protective yet limiting enclosure, threshold passage into sacred space, womb-like shelter, cosmic boundary, and architectural stability.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "wall", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "denotation_neighbours": [ { "slug": "womb", "evidence": "The wall denotes protective yet limiting enclosure, threshold passage into sacred space, womb-like shelter, cosmic boundary, and architectural stability." } ] }, { "slug": "wallet", "name": "Wallet", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The wallet denotes feminine containment, conservation, memory, life, and health, while pilgrim and judgment imagery associates it with preserved valuables and deeds.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "wallet", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "walnut", "name": "walnut", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The walnut denotes hidden wisdom, longevity, fertility, and strength in adversity, but also selfishness; folklore alternately uses it to encourage or prevent conception.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "walnut", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "wand", "name": "Wand", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The wand denotes authority, guidance, peace, and conducted supernatural power, with traditions linking it to rulers, magicians, sleep, forgetfulness, Hermes, and Circe.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "wand", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "war", "name": "War", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "War denotes cosmic sacrifice and the struggle of order against chaos or good against evil, destroying and reintegrating toward unity and renewed fertility.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "war", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "war", "title": "War/ Warrior", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Fundamentals of Work and Society", "sense_count": 7, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "wasp", "name": "wasp", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The wasp denotes irritation, petty danger, unfavorable inversion, and love’s sting; the second citation instead describes the Iroquois wasase war dance.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "wasp", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-waterfall", "name": "Waterfall", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The waterfall denotes water breaking over a precipice, unstoppable descent that cannot be held, and a balance of rushing movement against the stillness of rock.", "attestations": 1, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "domain": { "id": "waterfall", "title": "Waterfall", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Water", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "domain_slug" }, { "slug": "water-lily", "name": "water lily", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The water lily denotes purity and, in Maya art, standing water, the sustaining sea, earth’s emergence, and the boundary between sky and underworld.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "water-lily", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "way", "name": "Way", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The Way denotes passage, ascent, descent, or pilgrimage, including the narrow route to eternal life and labyrinthine movement through the mind.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "way", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "weasel", "name": "Weasel", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The weasel denotes childbirth, snakebite resistance, and highly variable omens, ranging from roof-top good luck to poison, blindness, blight, and dangerous conjuring.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "weasel", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-weaving", "name": "Weaving /Spinning", "register": "domain", "gloss": "Weaving denotes the crossing of warp and weft making one fabric of many threads, figuring fate spun and cut and a body woven in utero.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "weaving", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "weaving", "title": "Weaving /Spinning", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Fundamentals of Work and Society", "sense_count": 5, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "weeping", "name": "Weeping", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Weeping denotes grief and mourning, especially ritual lament for dying fertility powers, while sympathetic magic treats tears as rain that encourages renewal.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "weeping", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "well", "name": "Well", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The well denotes the feminine womb and psyche, underworld access, healing, wishes, prophecy, fertility, contemplation, truth, wisdom, purification, and salvation.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "well", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "well", "title": "Well", "world": "Human World", "sub": "House and Home", "sense_count": 8, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "denotation_neighbours": [ { "slug": "womb", "evidence": "The well denotes the feminine womb and psyche, underworld access, healing, wishes, prophecy, fertility, contemplation, truth, wisdom, purification, and salvation." } ] }, { "slug": "west", "name": "west", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "West denotes sunset, autumn, death, and the otherworld, with regional associations including sorrow, metal, the White Tiger, and magical western islands.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "west", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "whale", "name": "Whale", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The whale denotes cosmic waters and an engulfing grave that enables death and rebirth; Christian readings alternate between resurrection and the Devil’s hell.", "attestations": 6, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "whale", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "whale", "title": "Whale", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Water Creatures", "sense_count": 6, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "1_bake-kujira", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Japanese coastal tales tell of this ghostly skeletal whale surrounded by ghost fish." }, { "id": "2_akhlut", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Inuit mythology, Akhlut is a killer whale that can transform into a wolf." }, { "id": "2_cetus", "status": "proposed", "evidence": "From Greek mythology, Cetus is a giant sea monster resembling a serpent or whale." }, { "id": "2_lyngbakr", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From Norse mythology, Lyngbakr is a gigantic whale that disguises itself as an island." } ] }, { "slug": "bridger-wheel", "name": "Wheel", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The wheel denotes turning about a still hub, dividing the whole into seasons and ages, carrying fortune round and serving also to break a body.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "wheel", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "wheel", "title": "Wheel", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Tools and Other Objects", "sense_count": 7, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "whirlpool", "name": "Whirlpool", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The whirlpool denotes emotional entanglement and fallen time in one source, but creative, life-giving spiral energy and embryonic enclosure in others.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "whirlpool", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "whirlpool", "title": "Whirlpool", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Water", "sense_count": 4, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "whirlwind", "name": "whirlwind", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The whirlwind denotes circular creative energy, divine speech, rain, and soul-transport, but also violence, punishment, destruction, and demonic movement.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "whirlwind", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-white", "name": "White", "register": "domain", "gloss": "White denotes the blank that precedes and harbours colour, worn for baptism, spring and weddings, and at the other end signalling bloodlessness, infirmity and erasure.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "white", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "white", "title": "White", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Color", "sense_count": 17, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "wight", "name": "Wight", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Wight is a Germanic term for a being that narrowed toward spirits, elves, fairies, household haunters, or dangerous imps in medieval usage.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "wight", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "will-o-the-wisp", "name": "will-o'-the-wisp", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The will-o'-the-wisp is an elusive wandering light interpreted as a ghost or forest spirit that lures travelers away from safe paths.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ] }, { "slug": "willow", "name": "Willow", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The willow denotes lunar femininity, mourning, unhappy love, spring, grace, and parting, while its flexibility signifies patience, meekness, and survival through adversity.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "willow", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "wind", "name": "wind", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Wind denotes creative spirit, vital breath, fertility, and divine presence, while also conveying transience, invisibility, elusiveness, and communication.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "wind", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "wind", "title": "Wind", "world": "Creation and Cosmos", "sub": "Air — Wind and Weather", "sense_count": 17, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "windmill", "name": "Windmill", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The windmill combines wind, air, and wheel symbolism to denote harvest and fertility; paired with scales, it can represent Christian Temperance.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "windmill", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-window", "name": "Window", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The window denotes the transparent threshold between room and world, admitting light and longing both ways, and opened at a death to free the soul.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "window", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "window", "title": "Window", "world": "Human World", "sub": "House and Home", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "wine", "name": "wine", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Wine denotes life, revelation, truth, wisdom, and divine possession, yet also sacrificial blood and death through libation, Dionysian rites, and the Eucharist.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "wine", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "denotation_neighbours": [ { "slug": "libation", "evidence": "Wine denotes life, revelation, truth, wisdom, and divine possession, yet also sacrificial blood and death through libation, Dionysian rites, and the Eucharist." } ] }, { "slug": "bridger-witch", "name": "Witch", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The witch denotes the hidden craft working behind appearances, caster of spells and mistress of disguise, seeing by second sight and questioning the dead.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "witch", "census": { "class": "demon", "status": "candidate", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "witch", "title": "Witch", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Mythical Beings", "sense_count": 4, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "2_baba_yaga", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "She can be a helper or a hindrance, a wise woman or a cannibalistic witch." }, { "id": "2_soucouyant", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The Soucouyant, from Caribbean folklore, is a shape-shifting witch who sheds her skin to fly through the night as a ball of fire." }, { "id": "g1_skinwalker", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Navajo (Diné) tradition, this is a malevolent human witch who has gained the power to transform into or take on the characteristics of an animal, most often by violating sacred taboos." } ] }, { "slug": "witchcraft", "name": "witchcraft", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Witchcraft denotes harmful or socially condemned magic; Mesopotamian law punished it, while modern Celtic discussion distinguishes reconstructed Wicca from older beliefs in solitary witches.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "witchcraft", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "witch-hazel", "name": "Witch-Hazel", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Witch-hazel denotes protective and divinatory hazel used against harmful spirits, while New England Indigenous medicine applied it to bleeding and impaired vision.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "witch-hazel", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-wolf", "name": "Wolf", "register": "domain", "gloss": "The wolf denotes unsentimental predatory instinct, by turns nurse of founders and devourer at the door, and carries the projection of one's animal shadow.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "wolf", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "wolf", "title": "Wolf", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Wild Animals", "sense_count": 12, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "creatures": [ { "id": "2_alphyn", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From European heraldry, Alphyn is a wolf-like creature with a knotted tail." }, { "id": "2_amarok", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Inuit mythology, Amarok is a gigantic wolf with fur like shards of ice." }, { "id": "2_asena", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From Turkic myths, Asena is a blue she-wolf." }, { "id": "2_beast_of_gévaudan", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From French history and folklore, the Beast of Gévaudan is a wolf-like creature." }, { "id": "2_fenrir", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "In Norse mythology, Fenrir is a monstrous wolf." }, { "id": "2_sköll", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "From Norse mythology, Sköll is a monstrous wolf chasing the sun across the sky, destined to devour it come Ragnarok." }, { "id": "2_warg", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Originating from Norse mythology, the Warg is depicted as a monstrous wolf, often associated with chaos and destruction." }, { "id": "2_wolpertinger", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Typically described as having the body of a rabbit, the antlers of a deer, the wings of a pheasant, and occasionally the fangs of a wolf, the Wolpertinger represents a harmonious yet bizarre fusion of nature's diverse creations." }, { "id": "g2_rougarou", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "Accounts describe it variously as a man cursed to become a wolf-like beast, a person who transforms voluntarily through sorcery, or the victim of a curse passed from one sufferer to another, and its name is spelled and pronounced many ways across the region, including Rugaru and Roux-Ga-Roux, reflecting the oral, French-derived nature of the tradition." }, { "id": "g3_loup-garou", "status": "ratified", "evidence": "The loup-garou is the werewolf of French folklore, a living person who walks by night in the shape of a wolf — whether by curse, pact, or neglected religious duty — whose legend travelled with French settlers to Québec and Louisiana." } ] }, { "slug": "woman", "name": "woman", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Woman denotes a complex feminine principle linked to moon, earth, water, instinct, nourishment, protection, and destruction; folklore also embeds patriarchal creation anxieties.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "woman", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "womb", "name": "Womb", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The womb denotes the generative matrix, Earth Mother, unmanifest possibility, and plenitude, symbolized by caves, wells, waters, walls, caskets, mines, and night.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "womb", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "womb", "title": "Womb", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Human Body", "sense_count": 14, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id", "denotation_neighbours": [ { "slug": "cave", "evidence": "The womb denotes the generative matrix, Earth Mother, unmanifest possibility, and plenitude, symbolized by caves, wells, waters, walls, caskets, mines, and night." }, { "slug": "mother", "evidence": "The womb denotes the generative matrix, Earth Mother, unmanifest possibility, and plenitude, symbolized by caves, wells, waters, walls, caskets, mines, and night." }, { "slug": "wall", "evidence": "The womb denotes the generative matrix, Earth Mother, unmanifest possibility, and plenitude, symbolized by caves, wells, waters, walls, caskets, mines, and night." }, { "slug": "well", "evidence": "The womb denotes the generative matrix, Earth Mother, unmanifest possibility, and plenitude, symbolized by caves, wells, waters, walls, caskets, mines, and night." } ] }, { "slug": "wood", "name": "Wood", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Wood denotes primordial material and wholeness, sheltering birth and death while enabling divine order, sacred flame, seasonal renewal, and construction of heaven and earth.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "wood", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "woodpecker", "name": "Woodpecker", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The woodpecker denotes prophecy, magical guardianship, storm, and war, but Christian imagery reverses it into the Devil or heresy undermining belief.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "woodpecker", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "wood-pigeon", "name": "Wood-Pigeon", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The wood-pigeon denotes vanity, misplaced pride in song, monotonous speech, and victimhood in cuckoo lore; heraldry uses it only rarely.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "wood-pigeon", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "word", "name": "word", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The Word denotes sacred sound and creative or destructive speech that makes reality; telling one’s story also enables atonement, identity, and remembered life.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "word", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "world", "name": "World", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The World denotes the finite macrocosm mirrored in each microcosm, a transient veil that conceals truth yet can become a ladder toward eternity.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "world", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "worm", "name": "Worm", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Worm denotes lowliness, mortality, earth, and bodily dissolution, but in British usage also names a serpentine dragon class with its own cult narratives.", "attestations": 5, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "caveats": [ "homonym" ], "registry_id": "worm", "census": { "class": "creature", "status": "candidate", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "worm", "title": "Worm", "world": "Animal World", "sub": "Water Creatures", "sense_count": 13, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "wormwood", "name": "Wormwood", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Wormwood denotes bitterness, distress, and torment, yet sources also associate the ritual herb with affection, purification, wealth, Mars, and an apocalyptic star.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "wormwood", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "bridger-wound", "name": "Wound", "register": "domain", "gloss": "A wound denotes a breach in body or psyche that exposes what was covered, the aperture through which transformation and hard self-knowledge enter.", "attestations": null, "in": [ "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "domain" ], "gloss_basis": "senses", "registry_id": "wound", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "wound", "title": "Wound", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Sickness and Death", "sense_count": 2, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "wreath", "name": "Wreath", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The wreath denotes victory, glory, holiness, and good fortune, but also sacrifice, death, and mourning; bridal wreaths mark both ending and renewed life.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "wreath", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "wreath", "title": "Wreath", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Tools and Other Objects", "sense_count": 9, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "wryneck", "name": "Wryneck", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Wryneck denotes a spring bird of fertility, resurrection, death, and snake-like prophecy in one source, but a malignant northern English spirit in others.", "attestations": 4, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "wryneck", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "yarrow", "name": "Yarrow", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Yarrow denotes a healing herb that both stops and provokes bleeding, protects against witchcraft, secures love, and supplies stalks for I Ching divination.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "yarrow", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "year", "name": "Year", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The Year denotes a great cycle of creation and destruction, ending in rebirth, primordial restoration, and return of the Golden Age.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "year", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "yeast", "name": "Yeast", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Yeast denotes fermentation and therefore love, while folk practice also treats it as a remedy for plague and leucorrhea.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "yeast", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "yellow", "name": "Yellow", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Yellow denotes solar light, intellect, and faith when bright, but jealousy, treachery, and betrayal when dark; another reference names a Chinese deity.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "yellow", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "yellow", "title": "Yellow", "world": "Human World", "sub": "Color", "sense_count": 25, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "yew", "name": "Yew", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Yew denotes death, mourning, and sadness alongside immortality and Celtic magic, with further links to Hecate, ghosts, sacred trees, and deadly bows.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "yew", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "yin-yang", "name": "Yin-yang", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Yin-yang denotes complementary feminine and masculine forces whose dynamic balance creates harmony; each contains the other within a perpetually alternating cosmic totality.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "yin-yang", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "yoga", "name": "YOGA", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Yoga denotes a Hindu philosophical and ascetic discipline of union, using withdrawal, meditation, and staged practice to identify the self with ultimate reality.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "yoga", "census": { "class": "concept", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "yoke", "name": "yoke", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The yoke denotes union, discipline, toil, sacrifice, or oppression; in Mesoamerica it instead names a protective U-shaped ballgame garment.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "yoke", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "yoni", "name": "YONI", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "The yoni denotes the female organ and receptive generative principle, linked to Mother Earth, fertility, hollowness, downward triangles, and creative union with the linga.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "yoni", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "z", "name": "Z", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Z denotes the zigzag, associated with lightning, storm-fire, fertility, sea waves, regeneration, purification, rebirth, and Aquarius.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "z", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "zelos", "name": "Zelos", "register": "concept", "gloss": "Zelos is the personification of Glory or Zeal, a child of Pallas and Styx and sibling of Victory, Power, and Force.", "attestations": 3, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "zelos", "census": { "class": "deity", "status": "candidate", "canon_id": null } }, { "slug": "zero", "name": "ZERO", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Zero denotes nothingness, the unmanifest, and limitless eternity, yet also total potential, the Cosmic Egg, feminine womb, and the multiplier completing ten.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon", "bridger" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol", "domain" ], "registry_id": "zero", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null }, "domain": { "id": "zero", "title": "Zero", "world": "Spirit World", "sub": "Rituals and Sacred Systems", "sense_count": 9, "furniture_count": 40, "sources": [ "devries", "cooper", "aras" ] }, "joined_by": "registry_id" }, { "slug": "zircon", "name": "Zircon", "register": "symbol", "gloss": "Zircon denotes wisdom, honor, riches, insight, joy, and friendship, while protecting against jealousy, theft, malign spirits, and illness.", "attestations": 2, "in": [ "jawnomicon" ], "portrayals": [ "symbol" ], "registry_id": "zircon", "census": { "class": "symbol", "status": "registered", "canon_id": null } } ], "creatures": [ { "id": "1_achiyalabopa", "name": "Achiyalabopa", "motifs": [ "launches-body-parts-as-weapons", "unerring-aim", "guardian-spirit-omen", "harbinger-precedes-disaster", "iridescent-feathers-shift-color-with-angle" ], "powers": [ "guardian-intervention" ], "eidogen_kernel": { "Volition": 0.76, "Ethical Framework": 0.765, "Loyalty": 0.83, "Power Dynamics": 0.81, "Social Orientation": 0.66, "Risk Attitude": 0.675, "Influence Style": 0.79, "Structure Preference": 0.755, "Manifestation": 0.875 } }, { "id": "1_altamaha-ha", "name": "Altamaha-ha", "motifs": [ "serpentine-elongated-body", "seal-like-head", "booming-cry-precedes-sighting", 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