Motif
Communal ever-burning hearth
communal_ever_burning_hearth
A motif of the Sacred Fire and Divine Light family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
amazonian
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The North-West Amazons: Notes of Some Months Spent Among Cannibal Tribes CHAPTER VI / CHAPTER VII / CHAPTER VIII / CHAPTER IX; lines 4646-4724 confidence: high
“The tribal or chief’s fire carries the tribal hot-pot”; it is open to contributors, and is “the hot-pot which always remains, and the fire that never dies out.”
The tribal or chief’s fire is associated with the communal hot-pot and is explicitly described as a fire that never dies out.
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