The Seba library treats Pot in 6 passages, across 5 authors (including Neumann, Erich, Jung, Carl Gustav, Singh, Jaideva).
The Mother Pot is really a fundamental conception in all religions, and is almost world-wide in its distribution. The pot's identity with the Great Mother is deeply rooted in ancient belief through the greater part of the world.
Neumann argues that the pot is not merely a symbol but a primordial identification with the Great Mother archetype, attested cross-culturally as the belly/womb of the goddess.
, The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype, 1955thesis
he found a sleeping infant in the pot, though the lard had disappeared... 'I am born from no woman, which makes me clever. I am strong and clever and therefore I demand the crown of the realm from you.'
Jung's fairy-tale passage presents the buried pot as a chthonic womb producing a suprahuman child from repentance and sorcery, linking the vessel to transgressive transformation and the eruption of unconscious power.
, The Red Book: Liber Novus, 2009thesis
Focus your sight on it with one-pointedness and imagine that it is only a pot without the substance of its outside... It is only a pot to hold, and outside, there is nothing to make it in its shape.
In the Vijñāna Bhairava teaching, the pot serves as a contemplative object whose apparent solidity is dissolved until it reveals pure vacuity, functioning as a gateway to supreme consciousness in śāmbhavopāya.
, Vijnana Bhairava: The Manual for Self-Realization, 1979thesis
In the center of the table rested an enormous pot of stew, more than enough for everyone. The smell of the stew was delicious and made the rabbi's
Yalom's Hasidic parable deploys the pot of stew as a symbol of collective abundance made tragically inaccessible through the self-enclosing rigidity of those gathered around it, illustrating altruism and group dynamics.
, The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, Fifth Edition, 2008supporting
Ion. KUSPT], Hell. also KuSpa [f.] 'earthen pot' with KuSPl<;... 'to abandon a child (in a pot), to put into a pot (for burning)'
The etymological entry documents the Greek lexical field for 'earthen pot,' including the ritual and mythological practice of child-abandonment in a pot, attesting archaic vessel symbolism in linguistic form.
, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, 2010aside
KPWcrcrOC; [m.] 'water pail, pitcher, salve bottle, cinerary urn' (trag., Theoc.)... Celtic and Germanic words for 'jar, pot' were compared, e.g. Mlr. crocem, OE crocca, OHG kruog
This etymological gloss situates the cinerary urn and pot within a Pre-Greek lexical substrate, underscoring the vessel's pan-cultural semantic range from domestic container to funerary receptacle.
, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, 2010aside