Motif
filial vengeance quest
filial_vengeance_quest
A motif of the The Hero's Journey family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
caucasian
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Caucasian Folk-Tales THE BIRTH OF SATANA 203 / URYSMAG, CHAMYTS, SOSRYQO 205 / URYSMAG, CHAMYTS, SOSRYQO 207 / ETSEMEJ, SON OF ETSEJ 209; lines 9160-9231 confidence: high
The mother says Kuba slew Etsemej’s father; she says the aunt set out with her army to avenge him and had asked that Etsemej be sent when big and strong enough, though the mother says he is still weak.
Etsemej learns that Kuba killed his father and leaves home declaring that he must avenge him.
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