Motif
death accepted as divine necessity
death_accepted_as_divine_necessity
A motif of the Death Attributed to Fate or Destiny family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
zuni
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Zuni Folk Tales A HOPI (MOKI) MAIDEN 184 / THE PINNACLES OF THUNDER MOUNTAIN 344 / INTRODUCTION / THE TRIAL OF LOVERS:; lines 919-1024 confidence: medium
The young man mourns over the body of his wife; the people see him by the river and tell the old father, who refers to the gods and orders burial before the House of the Sun.
The old father says, with reference to the gods, that as they say, so all things must be, before ordering burial.
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