Motif
Animal song becomes known after human discovery
animal_song_becomes_known_after_human_discovery
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom 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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Tlingit Myths and Texts FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES:; lines 15679-15735 confidence: high
They heard a song on G̣ayá bay, listened without hearing clearly, and the wife asked the husband if he heard it; he said he heard a thing making noise over there, and they turned toward it.
The couple hears a song, follows it to a little frog, and the text says this is how the little frog’s song became known.
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