Motif
Female reproductive capacity linked to crop production
female_reproductive_capacity_linked_to_crop_production
A motif of the Sacred Feminine and Mother Goddess 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 INTRODUCTORY / CHAPTER II / CHAPTER III / CHAPTER IV; lines 2518-2605 confidence: high
Women perform continuous domestic and agricultural work, especially manioc planting, harvesting, and preparation; men clear land, hunt, and fight; custom called Pia separates work, and men say women produce manioc because they produce children.
The stated reason men do not plant manioc is that women, being able to produce children, can produce manioc.
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