Motif
color-coded opposition and interaction
color_coded_opposition_and_interaction
A motif of the Duality and Cosmic Opposition family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
afro caribbean
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Jamaica Anansi Stories XVII. / PHILOSOPHY. / XVIII. / RIDDLES.; lines 9602-9918 confidence: high
Black, white, and red personified figures appear in riddles whose answers include black ink on white paper, ackee, bammie on griddle, pot on fire, fire under a boiling pot, fire with baking-pan and bammie, and tooth and gum.
A cluster of riddles uses Black, White, and Red personae to encode interactions among ink and paper, food and cooking surfaces, fire and pots, and tooth and gum.
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