Motif
burying weapons to end warfare
burying_weapons_to_end_warfare
A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
native american northeast woodlands
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Seneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths HBWITT, / BXWITI'J / S2K?S1 LEGENDS 683 / BKWITTJ; lines 31150-31239 confidence: high
A village chief asks all chiefs to say whether to make peace or reject the peace overtures, describing peace as burying the scalping-knife, war bow and arrow, and battle-ax deep in the ground.
The chiefs describe peace as burying deep in the ground the scalping-knife, war bow and arrow, and battle-ax, and later as putting fighting things out of the world.
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