Motif
adrift on water and needing rescue or landing
adrift_on_water_and_needing_rescue_or_landing
A motif of the Sacred Waters and Passage Through Water family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
native american northwest coast
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Tlingit Myths and Texts FOOTNOTES: / WORDS OF SONGS TAKEN IN CONNECTION WITH GRAPHOPHONE RECORDS / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES:; lines 22782-22934 confidence: high
A note explains the people’s-thoughts bird as a sign of a coming feast; Kux̣ēˊʟǃ’s song says Raven’s thoughts fly toward the Wolf phratry and asks who will save the Ravens floating in the seas.
The passage contains several water-drift images: Ravens upset and floating in the seas, a speaker floating down a river and asking for help ashore, and a brother/log being asked to float ashore.
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