File:The Wild Boar Warrior in Indo-European Mythology and Material Culture

In Indo-European traditions, the Wild Boar is associated with the warrior. This stems from the original chariot warrior Mitra and the symbolic boar snout on the front of the chariot. In the Hindu Vajapeya sacrificial rite, the top-piece of the sacriﬁcial pillar is called casala which comes from a word meaning boar's snout. There is also a cosmogonic Hindu boar god called Emusa, although it is later described as a demon and its role in post Vedic Hinduism is adopted by Vishnu as his boar avatar Varaha.

The boar as a warrior totem, going on before the warrior is preserved in Celtic and Germanic traditions with the boar banner signs (eoforhéafodsegn) and the boar crested helmets of England and Scandinavia. The boar also had sacred associations in the form of the golden bristled boar of Ingui Frey named Gullinbursti.

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