Sagittarius
Sagittarius is the zodiacal archer expressing directed power and joined animal-spiritual nature; traditions variously identify it with Nergal, a wild centaur, or Chiron.
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.
- Cheiron is Greek mythology
why
Unable to escape the pain through death, he is said to give up his immortality, in some tellings trading it to free Prometheus from his own suffering, after which Zeus honors him by placing his image among the stars, generally identified with the constellation Centaurus or Sagittarius.