Motif
displaced elder people consigned to an underworld
displaced_elder_people_consigned_to_an_underworld
A motif of the Descent and Underworld Journey family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
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The Popol Vuh THE FOURTH BOOK / KICH AND MEXICAN MYTHOLOGY / THE VUKUB-CAKIX MYTH / BOOK II. COMMENTED UPON; lines 905-983 confidence: high
The passage says displaced elder peoples may be consigned to an underworld; the Xibalbans or aborigines are described as perhaps cave- or earth-dwellers like the Picts, gnome-like and full of tricks; vanished people may be classed with the dead or lords of the dead.
The passage explicitly states that assigning displaced elder peoples to an underworld is not uncommon in mythology, and applies this possibility to the Xibalbans or aborigines.
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