Motif
forest transformed into cultivated clearing by fire
forest_transformed_into_cultivated_clearing_by_fire
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.
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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 3636-3730 confidence: high
Ground is prepared by felling smaller trees, burning larger ones and dried branches, leaving charred remains and ashes as manure, then breaking the ground with wooden clubs; after this, women take charge. Witoto terms ike and akpho are given for plantation states.
The described sequence moves from untouched forest to felled and burnt vegetation, smouldering bonfires, ashes as manure, broken ground, and planted cultivation.
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