Motif
forest as survival test
forest_as_survival_test
A motif of the Initiation and Transformative Ordeal family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
amazonian
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The North-West Amazons: Notes of Some Months Spent Among Cannibal Tribes CHAPTER IV / CHAPTER V / CHAPTER VI / CHAPTER VII; lines 3732-3816 confidence: medium
The passage says the Indian pathfinder judges time and distance by the sun, reads sky, trees, birds, and animals, and that “The inept are the unfit, and the forest will show them no mercy.”
The forest is described as unforgiving, where the ability to judge signs is repeatedly a matter of life or death.
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