Snail
Snail signifies lunar recurrence, labyrinthine inwardness, birth, sexuality, sensitivity, and transience, but its slowness also represents sloth and sin.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Symbol
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- French folklore (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.
- Lou Carcolh is French folklore
why
From French mythology, Lou Carcolh is a cave-dwelling creature, part snail, part serpent.