Motif
Dawn as fiery consumption of the starry night
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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.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
nahua maya inca
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The Myths of Mexico & Peru CHAPTER PAGE / LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / CHAPTER I: THE CIVILISATION OF MEXICO / CHAPTER II: MEXICAN MYTHOLOGY; lines 3420-3515 confidence: medium
The moon is described as recorder of harvests with supremacy over water; Citatli and Atl are blended in Nahua myth; Metztli leads Nanahuatl the Leprous to a pyre, interpreted as dawn consuming the starry sky in the rising sun's fires.
Metztli leading Nanahuatl to the pyre is explained as a reference to dawn, in which the starry sky is consumed by rising-sun fires.
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