Motif
Ancestral female invocation protects from natural danger
ancestral_female_invocation_protects_from_natural_danger
A motif of the Divine Intervention and Guidance 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 AMULETS / INETLIA WITH HER CHILD / MAGIC FORMULA / PORTRAIT STUDY; lines 5562-5779 confidence: high
Under a bird rock, a speaker invokes great-grandmother and grandmother to prevent a stone avalanche; the passage explains that mentioning such venerable figures keeps the stones undisturbed.
Grandmother and great-grandmother are invoked to prevent stones at a bird rock from being disturbed, and are also named as permitting drinking.
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