Fleece
Fleece denotes animal vitality, fertility, rain, progeny, and sustaining abundance, while the Golden Fleece adds guarded treasure and heroic quest.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Symbol
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- 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.
- Chrysomallus bears Greek mythology
why
Its fleece, shimmering with an otherworldly golden hue, is said to radiate warmth and light even in the darkest of nights.