Motif
Animal-body images as crafted ritual objects
animal_body_images_as_crafted_ritual_objects
A motif of the Sacred Craft and Divinely Aided Construction family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
confucian
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The Li Ki, Books I-X (The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism, Part III; Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 27) Part V. / BOOK Il. THE THAN KUNG. / SECT. I. PT. II, THE THAN KUNG. IAI / SECT. II. PT. II. THE THAN KUNG. IOI; lines 8634-8662 confidence: low
The note identifies 3ze-k4o with K4o Khai and says: “He is the crab whose shell forms a box for the cocoons, and the cicada whose antennae form the strings for the cap.”
The editorial note describes a person through images of a crab shell forming a cocoon box and cicada antennae forming cap strings.
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