Motif
allies break through and take the fighters' place
allies_break_through_and_take_the_fighters_place
A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare 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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Haida Texts and Myths: Skidegate Dialect A RAID ON THE TLINGIT / RAID BY THE NINSTINTS HAIDA ON THOSE OF THE WEST COAST / FIGHT BETWEEN THE KAIGANI AND WEST COAST HAIDA / WARS BETWEEN THE STIKINE AND SITKA TLINGIT; lines 17008-17100 confidence: high
Middle-town people and Earth-eaters come to fight, break through the surrounding Town-of-Tcꜝā′ał people, tell the narrator's group to go home, and fight in their places.
Allied Middle-town people and Earth-eaters break through the surrounding opponents and fight in place of the narrator's group.
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