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Motif

Beauty-happiness blessing vocabulary

beauty_happiness_blessing_vocabulary

A motif of the Curse, Blessing, and Performative Sacred Speech family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions

navajo

  • Navaho Legends BY PROF. JOHN COMFORT FILLMORE. / TEXTS AND INTERLINEAR TRANSLATIONS. / FREE TRANSLATION OF PRAYER. / REMARKS ON THE PRAYER.; lines 13238-13277 confidence: medium

    The author explains hozó as primarily terrestrial beauty and describes related forms whose meanings extend to happiness, happy manner, and joyfulness in free translation.

    The hozó word group is explained as moving from terrestrial beauty to meanings of happiness and joyful manner in translation.

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