Motif
borrowed magical or knowing canoe overcomes obstacles
borrowed_magical_or_knowing_canoe_overcomes_obstacles
A motif of the Sacred Treasures and Power Objects 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 ABSTRACTS OF MYTHS / MYTHS RECORDED IN ENGLISH AT SITKA / FOOTNOTES: / MYTHS RECORDED IN ENGLISH AT WRANGELL; lines 25071-25149 confidence: medium
Łqǃayāˊkǃ chases Dry-cloud and makes the Milky Way; Kᴀckǃᴀˊʟkǃ opens a cloud passage. The brothers borrow a knowing figure’s canoe, pass obstacles, confront monsters and a shaman, teach a blind man fishing and cooking, and are turned to stone when their menstruant sister looks at them. The passage also notes an adventure with a one-legged man told in story 3.
The brothers borrow the canoe of He-who-knows-everything-that-happens and use it to pass obstacles, rendering them harmless.
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