Pine Tree
The pine denotes immortality and steadfastness, keeping green through winter, crowning the thyrsus with its cone and figuring the spirit of old age.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Image
- Group
- Plant World / Trees
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Greek mythology (1)
- Same group
- Tree
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.
- Pitys is Greek mythology
why
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.