<Li> In Haitian Vodou, Ezili Dantor, the lwa of motherhood, is associated with the black Creole Pig of Haiti, her favorite animal sacrifice . </Li> <Li> In Hinduism the god Vishnu took the form of a four - armed humanoid with the head of a boar named Varaha in order to save the Earth from a demon who had dragged it to the bottom of the sea . </Li> <Li> In Islam the eating of pork is also sinful (see Haraam). The Qur'an prohibits the consumption of pork in no less than 4 different places . It is prohibited in 2: 173, 5: 3, 6: 145 and 16: 115 . "Forbidden to you (for food) are: dead meat, blood, the flesh of swine, and that on which hath been invoked the name of other than Allah ." (Al - Qur'an 5: 3) Islam treats pigs as inedible animals par excellence, the animal that is central to the concepts of haram . </Li> <Li> The dietary laws of Judaism (Kashrut) forbid, among other kinds of meat, the eating of pork in any form, considering the pig to be an unclean animal as food (see taboo food and drink). Pork is as forbidden as the meat of any other unclean animal, but probably due to extensive use of pork in modern days, abhorrence of pork is far stronger and emotional in traditional Jewish culture than that of other forbidden foods . Many Ancient Jews also held the prohibition on pigs above other taboos . In De Specialibus Legibus, Philo of Alexandria, a first - century Jewish writer, relates that pigs were lazy scavengers, the embodiment of vice . Philo also argued that since pigs will eat the flesh of human corpses, that men should abstain from eating them so as not to be contaminated . </Li>

The pig as well as the human belongs to which phylum and sub-phylum