Motif
Ancestral long-ago storytelling
ancestral_long_ago_storytelling
A motif of the Storytelling and Narrative as Sacred Power 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 CHAPTER III / RELIGIOUS AND MAGICAL BELIEFS / CHAPTER IV / MYTHS AND LEGENDS; lines 7001-7096 confidence: high
Stories are "told to the younger people by their elders" and relate to ancestors "in a time long ago."
Stories are explicitly said to concern ancestors in a time long ago and to be transmitted by elders to younger people.
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