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Motif

Animal companion prepared as bearer of cultivated seeds

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A motif of the Culture Hero and Founder family, within the sub-family Food, Fire, and Material Resources. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

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1 traditions

navajo

  • Navaho Legends II. EARLY EVENTS IN THE FIFTH WORLD. / III. THE WAR GODS. / IV. GROWTH OF THE NAVAHO NATION. / NATI'NESTHANI.; lines 6768-6860 confidence: medium

    Hastséyalti and Hastséhogan stand on the rainbow at the doorway; the Navaho is summoned, takes his sacrificial bundle, receives consent to take the niece's turkey, hears the grandmother ask for his return, and boards the sunwise-turned rainbow between the two gods.

    The turkey is taken as company for the Navaho and secretly prepared with corn, seeds, gourds, melons, squash, and beans beneath its wings.

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