Motif
animal-drawn cart determines the sacred building site
animal_drawn_cart_determines_the_sacred_building_site
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.
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estonian
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The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country THE TREASURE AT KERTELL. / THE GOLDEN SNAKES. / THE NOCTURNAL CHURCH-GOERS. / THE CHURCH AT REVEL.; lines 14212-14267 confidence: high
Before Christian times a great alder forest on Dagö is used for sacrifices and festivals; later it is felled except for one tree, and a man advises using two oxen and a cart of building materials to choose the church site.
Two oxen in one account and two newborn white calves in another indicate where the church should be built by where they stop or feed.
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