Immortality
Immortality denotes escape from death, linked here to absorbing divine generative power and, in Mesopotamia, the stories of Adapa, Gilgamesh, and Ziusura.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Concept
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- East Asian folklore (general) (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.
- Moon rabbit bears East Asian folklore (general)
why
It symbolizes immortality and is believed to concoct the Elixir of Life, bridging the celestial and the terrestrial in its lunar abode.