Word
The Word denotes sacred sound and creative or destructive speech that makes reality; telling one’s story also enables atonement, identity, and remembered life.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Symbol
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Jewish 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.
- Golem bears Jewish folklore
why
The Golem is animated through Kabbalistic ritual: its creator inscribes or places sacred Hebrew letters or divine names upon it, most commonly the word "emet" (truth) on its forehead, or a parchment bearing the Tetragrammaton placed in its mouth.