Motif
animal omen of communal death
animal_omen_of_communal_death
A motif of the Prophecy and Systematic Divination family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
native american northwest coast
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Haida Texts and Myths: Skidegate Dialect HE WHO MARRIED THE DAUGHTER OF THE DEVILFISH CHIEF / THOSE WHO WERE FASTING TO BECOME SHAMANS / BIG-TAIL. / CLOUD-WATCHER; lines 14161-14204 confidence: high
Seal hunters meet a seal that reads a cloud as a sign that all people will die; a bracketed note calls these events prophecies of the general destruction of the tribe.
A seal interprets a cloud as indicating that all the people will die, and the passage identifies these events as prophecies of the tribe’s destruction.
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