Motif
aetiology through death, naming, and animal behavior
aetiology_through_death_naming_and_animal_behavior
A motif of the Cosmic Origin and Creation family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV BOOK XV. / BOOK THE EIGHTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 814-896 confidence: high
Daedalus searches for Icarus, sees the wings in the water, curses his arts, buries the body, and the land is named from the buried youth.
The passage explains a place name from Icarus's burial and explains the partridge's low flight and hedge-nesting through its former fall.
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