Motif
Dismembered demon body becomes celestial features
dismembered_demon_body_becomes_celestial_features
A motif of the Primordial Sacrifice and Dismemberment family, within the sub-family Celestial Features from a Divided Body. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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zuni
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Zuni Folk Tales HOW THE CORN-PESTS WERE ENSNARED / JACK-RABBIT AND COTTONTAIL / THE RABBIT HUNTRESS AND HER ADVENTURES / THE UGLY WILD BOY WHO DROVE THE BEAR AWAY FROM SOUTHEASTERN MESA; lines 10849-10955 confidence: high
Áhaiyúta cuts off the demon’s head, declares it will become a lying star, casts it into the sky, and it becomes the red star Mokwanosana, which rises in summer and falsely signals morning at midnight.
Átahsaia’s head is cast into the sky and becomes the red Great Lying Star, while his intestines become the Great Snow-drift of the Skies, identified as the Milky Way.
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