Motif
Animal sound marks the boundary between day and night
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A motif of the Sacred Time and Ritual Cycle family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
andamanese
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The Andaman Islanders: A Study in Social Anthropology CHAPTER V / THE INTERPRETATION OF ANDAMANESE CUSTOMS AND BELIEFS: CEREMONIAL / CHAPTER VI / THE INTERPRETATION OF ANDAMANESE CUSTOMS AND BELIEFS: MYTHS AND LEGENDS; lines 10711-10801 confidence: high
The author begins with the Akar-Bale story of the origin of night and day and connects its explanation with the cicada, which sings at twilight between sunset and darkness and between dawn and sunrise.
The cicada is described as singing at sunset-to-darkness and dawn-to-sunrise transitions, and this sound is central to the author's explanation of the legend.
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