Pigs and the Grail

I'm not sure what this means, but it's a link that has appeared three times so far. This is from In Search of the Holy Grail by Teresa Anne Power (see "The modified Book of the Lamb"):

"The map says to dig here," says Little Mouse. Maggie is used to digging. She begins to root, using her snout to push into the ground. She suddenly stops.

"Did you find something?" asks Gaby excitedly. Maggie picks up the golden chalice and hands it to Little Mouse.

He exclaims in awe, "We've found the Holy Grail."

Maggie, in case it's not obvious, is a pig.

On the H page of Animalia, captioned "Horrible hairy hogs hurrying homeward on heavily harnessed horses" (see "The horrible hairy homeward-hurrying hogs of Hieronymus"), there is a strange pale cup which I took to be the Holy Grail. Only just now, finding a high-resolution photo to include in this post, do I see that it is in fact an hourglass.

I think it still counts as a Holy Grail sync, though, due to its shape, the fact that it is filled with a red material like wine or blood (sang real), and its juxtaposition with a crowned man and a fishing rod (the Fisher King ). It's not the first time an hourglass has been identified with the Holy Grail. (See "DD, hourglass, lemniscate, gate, time.") And it's on a page dominated by hogs.

Then there's "The more, the merrier," a series of couplets to add to "With?" One of these is:

Grinbad the Grailer found the Cup

And, posing with it, hammed it up.

The reason I had him find the Cup was because of his title "the Grailer"; and he "hammed it up" -- an expression meaning "to show expressions or emotions more obviously than is realistic" -- because his name is Grin-bad. But "ham" is also a pig reference.

In legend, Galahad was allowed to obtain the Grail because of his purity. The pig is the quintessential unclean beast, the symbol of impurity. Seems like it probably means something. What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

Note added: I googled holy grail pig and found a toy that involves catching a fly in a jug.

Update: Less than an hour after posting this, and noting that pigs are usually symbols of impurity, not of the purity required to acquire the Holy Grail -- that was the specific word I used, purity -- I had a tutoring session with two sisters. One was wearing a Little Mermaid T-shirt, which is synchronistically relevant in its own right, and the other had a T-shirt that read: "Warmth, Purity and Innocence: Meaning of Daisy." In the Teresa Anne Power book, the pig that discovers the Holy Grail is named Maggie, which is a diminutive of Margaret. If you look up the meaning of Margaret, you'll be told that it means "pearl," which is true in terms of the ultimate Greek origins of the name. However, the proximate source for the English name Margaret is the French Marguerite, which means "daisy."

So a pig named Maggie is, as suggested by the line from Acts with which this post originally ended, a purified pig.