Motif
animal guardians of fire
animal_guardians_of_fire
A motif of the Sacred Fire and Divine Light family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
hawaiian
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Hawaiian Folk Tales: A Collection of Native Legends LEGENDS RESEMBLING OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY / EXPLOITS OF MAUI / I.--SNARING THE SUN / II.--THE ORIGIN OF FIRE; lines 742-822 confidence: high
The brothers return with fish to get food cooked; Maui-mua runs toward the fire, and the curly-tailed alae, described as keepers of fire, scratch it out and fly away.
The curly-tailed alae are directly described as keepers and proprietors of the fire, and they extinguish it when Maui-mua approaches.
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