Motif
ancestral tools as divine gifts
ancestral_tools_as_divine_gifts
A motif of the Culture Hero and Founder family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
amazonian
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The North-West Amazons: Notes of Some Months Spent Among Cannibal Tribes CHAPTER III / CHAPTER IV / CHAPTER V / CHAPTER VI; lines 3368-3451 confidence: high
Metal is scarce and treated as heirloom treasure; stone is rare and almost sacred; inherited stone axes are passed down, have no remembered makers or origin, and are regarded as gifts from gods.
The inherited stone axes have no remembered makers or origin and are explicitly described as looked upon as gifts from the gods.
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