You might ride the pig on a carnival carousel, but bounding aboard, the faux-jeweled saddle of a horse, tiger or zebra was probably your intended mount. The pig being a last resort to avoid the chariot seats, far from the bright brass ring.
She is a fair woman, this daughter of Eve; and the pig she rides has no gold ring in its nose. Yet she rides that pig without discretion. Explaining only that the pig, and such like animals named by Adam, were never expelled from Paradise after the fall.
the Porcine Oracle
Additional information:
- Sejuani, the Winter’s Wrath, is a warrior woman “cut from the ice, shaped in the storms, hardened in the cold” who rides the battle boar, Bristle, in the online fantasy game League of Legends from Riot Games, Inc.
- In 2005 the late contemporary American figurative painter, Bryten Goss (1976-2006), painted his then girlfriend, actress Alexandra Breckenridge, riding a pig.
From the Porkopolis Archive:
- Poet Stan Rice rides a flying pig
- There is no bareback riding on these saddled pigs
- Should you give the boar you ride to a woman named Shibboleth?