Motif
Fire carried by animal relay and lodged in the landscape
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A motif of the Culture Hero and Founder family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
native american southwest
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Myths and Tales from the San Carlos Apache Myths and Tales from the San Carlos Apache / CONTENTS; lines 2091-2202 confidence: medium
Humming Bird is associated with fires on multiple mountain tops; the fire owners give up pursuit, and formerly fireless people thank Coyote after receiving fire.
Fire passes from Coyote to Night Hawk to Turkey Buzzard to Humming Bird; it appears from a mountain and goes inside trees.
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