Motif · motif_pig
Pig
1 attested · 6 promoted1 source · T1
What the research says
motifs_seed- Category
- animal
- Common styles
- american traditional
- Common themes
- maritime; protection
- Placement behaviors
- foot
- Composition behaviors
- paired with a rooster, one on each foot
Provenance
1 resolvedRoyal Museums Greenwich
National Maritime Museum page. Verbatim: the word 'tattoo' is "derived from the Tahitian word 'tatau', meaning to mark"; a pig and a rooster tattooed on the feet were "said to protect a seaman from drowning"; a full-rigged ship, an anchor, a dragon and a shellback turtle each record a specific voyage or crossing. Establishes protective (apotropaic) intent inside the tattoo domain.
museum · retrieved 2026-08-28
Related concepts
7 linksAssociated with · 3
- strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched
Promoted from motifs_seed.common_themes of motif_pig ('maritime'). No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.
- strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched
Promoted from motifs_seed.common_themes of motif_pig ('protection'). No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.
- strength unstatedpromoted · not an independent attestationresearched
Promoted from motifs_seed.placement_behaviors of motif_pig ('foot') [class EP]. PLACEMENT AXIS. Typed associated_with, not placement_supports: the packs use placement_supports only as placement -> composition (doc 01 'forearm -> placement_supports -> vertical_composition'; specimen rel_0004), and model motif -> placement as 'anatomy_fit', which is not in the locked 14. The placement_ target prefix carries the axis. The cited source states this placement. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus.
Can symbolize · 1
- strength 0.75researched
MARITIME CONTEXT, and PAIR-DEPENDENT - same sentence as the rooster edge; the museum states the protective claim of the two together.
Compatible with · 1
- strength unstatedpromoted · not an independent attestationresearched
Promoted from motifs_seed.composition_behaviors of motif_rooster ('paired with a pig, one on each foot') [class EC+EM]; motifs_seed.composition_behaviors of motif_pig ('paired with a rooster, one on each foot') [class EC+EM]. Asserted by more than one parent value; deduped to one edge. Confidence is the LOWER of the contributing rows, not the higher. compatible_with is symmetric; recorded once, traversable from either endpoint. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus.
Frequently used in · 1
- strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched
Promoted from motifs_seed.common_styles of motif_pig ('american traditional'). No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.
Supports composition · 1
- strength unstatedpromoted · not an independent attestationresearched
Promoted from motifs_seed.composition_behaviors of motif_pig ('paired with a rooster, one on each foot') [class EC+EM]. Source is the supporting concept, target the composition, mirroring placement_supports. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus.