Motif
Ancestral custom as moral authority
ancestral_custom_as_moral_authority
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
amazonian
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The North-West Amazons: Notes of Some Months Spent Among Cannibal Tribes CHAPTER XVII / CHAPTER XVIII / CHAPTER XIX / CHAPTER XX; lines 8521-8609 confidence: medium
The passage identifies a moral code based on pia, meaning what forefathers thought and did or tribal usage, and says the languages lack terms for virtue, justice, humanity, vice, injustice, and cruelty, distinguishing instead good and bad.
The moral code is identified as pia, glossed as what forefathers thought and did, or tribal usage.
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