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- The pig tended to be regarded as a dangerously liminal animal. With the feet of a cud-eater, the diet of a scavenger, the habits of a dirt-dweller and the cunning of a human, it exhibited an unsettling combination of characteristics, rendering it culturally inedible for some southern Levantine peoples, for whom pigs were often associated with the underworld or malevolent supernatural powers.' (en)
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