Beaver
The beaver denotes industry, engineering, vigilance, peace, and ascetic chastity, while Indigenous stories also cast Beaver as spouse, companion, or reciprocal trickster.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Symbol
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Welsh folklore (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.
- Afanc bears Welsh folklore
why
A Welsh water monster, the Afanc has a crocodile's body with beaver-like paws and a poisonous barbed tail.