Motif
Afterlife passage delayed until the name is renewed
afterlife_passage_delayed_until_the_name_is_renewed
A motif of the Afterlife Navigation and Passage family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
arctic inuit
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The People of the Polar North: A Record THE SOUL THAT ROAMED THROUGH ALL ANIMALS / PANIGPAK'S SON / THE BODY / THE NAME; lines 4555-4597 confidence: high
The name is described as a kind of soul with vitality and dexterity; the person named after the deceased inherits qualities, and the dead person cannot have peace or pass to the land of the departed until the name is given again.
The dead person is said to have no peace and the soul cannot pass to the land of the departed before the name has been given again.
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