Motif
Animal deified through thunder and lightning attribution
animal_deified_through_thunder_and_lightning_attribution
A motif of the Divine Intervention and Guidance family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
nahua maya inca
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The Myths of Mexico & Peru CHAPTER I: THE CIVILISATION OF MEXICO / CHAPTER II: MEXICAN MYTHOLOGY / CHAPTER III: MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE ANCIENT MEXICANS / CHAPTER IV: THE MAYA RACE AND MYTHOLOGY; lines 6137-6234 confidence: medium
At Peten-Itza, Cortés's sick horse died; natives treated it as divine, made an image named Izimin Chac, Thunder and Lightning, after seeing firearm flash and report; a Spanish monk broke the idol and was spared by the cacique's intervention.
The Peten-Itza natives raise an image of Cortés's dead horse and call it Thunder and Lightning after attributing firearm flash and report to the animal.
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