Rice
Rice symbolizes divine nourishment, abundance, happiness, immortality, and fertility, especially when thrown at newlyweds to wish them luck and children.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Symbol
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Korean mythology (1)
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is, or is partly, 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.
- Bulgasari is Korean mythology
why
In Korean folklore, the Bulgasari is a monstrous creature said to have been born from a handful of rice grains and to grow to enormous size by devouring iron and other metal.