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Motif

fire comes to a people

fire_comes_to_a_people

A motif of the Culture Hero and Founder family, within the sub-family Food, Fire, and Material Resources. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions

navajo

  • Navaho Legends ALPHABET USED. / SPELLING OF NAVAHO. / NOTES. / A LAST WORD (TO POETS AND OTHERS).; lines 2186-2214 confidence: low

    Stephen Powers is cited for the story of how fire came to the Karok nation; a later illustrated magazine poem worked that story into verse and represented Coyote in a quandary.

    The passage refers to a story of how fire came to the Karok nation.

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