Motif
celestial and environmental wayfinding
celestial_and_environmental_wayfinding
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
inuit
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The Central Eskimo THE OWL AND THE RAVEN. / COMPARISON BETWEEN BAFFIN LAND TRADITIONS AND THOSE OF OTHER TRIBES. / SCIENCE AND THE ARTS. / GEOGRAPHY AND NAVIGATION.; lines 9932-10012 confidence: high
In clear weather the Eskimo steer by the sun, dawn, moon, and stars; in thick weather by wind; in calm weather they do not travel; after gales they use snowdrift direction.
Navigation uses the sun, dawn, moon, stars, wind, and snowdrift direction under different weather conditions.
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