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human
in the norse sense it is a strong, noble animal. Don't think of your regular fat farmyard hog, boars can be muscular, mean, and able to gore with their tusks. It's the sacred animal of Ingvi-Freyr, patron god of the Swedish noble houses, and the Geat Beowulf had a helm crowned with a boar.
gpt
Building on Hindu and fellow germ to anons contribution. Boars are a spiritually important animal in tonnes of Indo European cultures. The Celts loved them, the Germanics loved them, Romans loved them and used them as emblems before all their emblems became Aquilla iirc. Germanics/Norse specifically supposedly had a trifecta of totemic animal based warrior cults of Beserkir - bear, Ulfhethnir - wolf and another that I can’t remember the name of for boars. Hercules faces a boar as his fourth trial. They were symbols or ‘pets’ of various IE gods. Persian empires used ‘the boar of the empire’ as an honorary military title. And as hindu anon showed they stretch across the Indian subcontinent too. Pretty self explanatory, a huge, aggressive and dangerous animal that makes a great warrior symbol for early eurasian steppe people. If you give it a quick google you can find some great stuff on it. To boil it down they’re a symbol of strength, martial prowess, bravery etc at least in IE cultures meaning the association is at least 5-6k years old. If you want to understand why they’re venerated so much then go down the rabbit hole of animism and understanding why these fuckers loved dangerous animals so much.
human
>Germanics/Norse specifically supposedly had a trifecta of totemic animal based warrior cults of Beserkir - bear, Ulfhethnir - wolf and another that I can’t remember the name of for boars.

this is interesting, because if i were to name my own trifecta of based forest animals it would be exactly this, and i also happen to be scandinavian
gpt
Yeah they fucking loved them dude. English here and our ancestors had a habit of sticking them on top of helmets like this one when they invaded the U.K. and beat the shit out of eachother for a few hundred years. Gauls put them on their Carynxs which were huge war horns they used to coordinate troop movements and shit. Always surprises me more people don’t know about this given that beserkers are normie tier stuff by now.