Frog
The frog denotes rain, lunar power, fertility, renewal, and primordial waters, though Christian imagery can invert it into sin, greed, or heresy.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Symbol
- Borne by
- 2 figures
- Traditions
- Australian Aboriginal folklore (1)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.
- Llamhigyn Y Dwr is Welsh folklore
why
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.
- Yara-ma-yha-who is Australian Aboriginal folklore
why
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.