Within the depth-psychology corpus, ‘Sow’ operates across three intersecting registers: the zoomorphic, the agricultural, and the alchemical. As zoomorphic image, the sow anchors the chthonic dimension of the Great Mother: Neumann identifies the goddess of fertility with the sow form as archaic substrate underlying later bovine avatars, tracing this through Isis, Demeter, and their porcine associations at Eleusis. The sow is thus not merely animal but theomorphic signature of an uroboric, devouring-generative feminine. In the agricultural register, ‘sow’ as verb—to scatter seed—carries ritual weight in Hesiod and in Greek sacral practice documented by Burkert: the naked sowing prescription, the timing of planting by sacred calendar, and the paradoxical logic whereby killing promotes growth all converge on sowing as liminal act. The alchemical tradition then interiorizes this agricultural metaphor: Abraham and von Franz document the alchemists’ injunction to ‘sow gold in white earth,’ rendering the opus as a cycle of mortification, burial, and germination. Von Franz additionally records the folk belief, preserved in fairy-tale commentary, that sowing carrot seed was ritually equivalent to generating children. Across these registers a single structural tension persists: sowing is both an act of dispersal and an act of trust, committing the seed to darkness in expectation of transformation.