Motif
Central ritual water in painted cosmogram
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A motif of the Sacred Waters and Passage Through Water family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
native american southwest
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The Mountain Chant: A Navajo Ceremony NOTE ON THE ORTHOGRAPHY OF NAVAJO WORDS. / ILLUSTRATIONS / THE MOUNTAIN CHANT: A NAVAJO CEREMONY. / INTRODUCTION.; lines 3030-3105 confidence: high
A central circular concavity represents water, probably the mythic house of water; other pictures use a bowl of water sunk in the ground and covered with powdered charcoal.
The painting centers on water, either as a circular depression representing water or as an actual bowl of water covered with black powder.
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