Ape
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.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Symbol
- Borne by
- 2 figures
- Traditions
- Egyptian mythology (1)Greek mythology (1)
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is a kind of this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- Babi is Egyptian mythology
why
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.
- Cercopes is Greek mythology
why
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.