Net

According to the Iranian Epic Ahriman has a Net. While Tus and Feribur seize the castle of the Deva Bahman, the mighty Ahriman spreads out his air-like net. Likewise the god of fate is equipped with noose and net.

Onians establishes that in Iranian cosmology the net is a primary attribute of fate and demonic power, serving as an inescapable cosmic snare that parallels binding-imagery across Vedic, Norse, and Greek traditions.

Onians, R B, The origins of European thought about the body, the mind,, 1988thesis

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The net used in catching animals alive played a more prominent part in Cretan-Mycenaean art and in Cretan mythology than any other instrument of the hunt. The wild bull was caught in a net, and Britomartis, the divine maiden, jumped into a net from a steep cliff.

Kerényi argues that the net was the pre-eminent cultic instrument in Cretan-Mycenaean religion, linked to the capture of living sacrificial animals and to the divine figure Diktynna, whose very name derives from the word for net.

Kerényi, Carl, Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life, 1976thesis

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When he turned back with his net, her entire body, such as it was, had come to the surface and was hanging from the tip of his kayak by her long front teeth.

Estés uses the net as the accidental instrument through which an uncanny underworld figure is hauled into consciousness, dramatizing the depth-psychological motif of unconscious contents erupting when the ego pursues ordinary aims.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph D, Women Who Run With the Wolves Myths and Stories of the Wild, 2017supporting

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We rescue thee from the toils of Nirriti by means of our divine utterance. Rise up hence, O death! Casting off the foot-shackles of death, do not sink down.

Onians traces Vedic net-and-fetter imagery as a parallel to Greek conceptions of fate as binding force, showing the net’s deep Indo-European roots as a symbol of death’s entanglement and divine liberation from it.

Onians, R B, The origins of European thought about the body, the mind,, 1988supporting

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Ejō is alluding to a section of the Brahma Net Sutra about the fifth minor precept.

The Brahma Net Sutra is cited as a Buddhist canonical text governing precepts, offering a cross-cultural instance of the net as a metaphor for the ethical web or cosmic order within which sentient life is held.

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