Motif
ancestral fire nearly lost in a storm
ancestral_fire_nearly_lost_in_a_storm
A motif of the Sacred Fire and Divine Light family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
andamanese
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The Andaman Islanders: A Study in Social Anthropology CONCLUSION. / APPENDIX B / THE SPELLING OF ANDAMANESE WORDS / NOTES; lines 14954-15115 confidence: medium
Before European settlement the Andamanese had no means of producing fire; the author says this is needed to understand legends in which ancestral fire was nearly lost in a heavy storm.
The note says legends tell that fire in the time of the ancestors was nearly lost in a heavy storm, in a context where no fire-making method was known before European settlement.
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