Motif
Landscape formed from giant body
landscape_formed_from_giant_body
A motif of the Primordial Sacrifice and Dismemberment family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
shan
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Shans at Home, With Two Chapters on Shan History and Literature THE MONKEY AND THE CROCODILE / THE KING OF THE DOVES / THE FAIRY AND THE HUNTER / THE STORY OF THE SQUIRREL; lines 10055-10185 confidence: high
The king orders the ogress queen buried beyond the village; her cut-up body fills a valley, the valley becomes a mountain, her head in a lake becomes an island, and the king recognizes the prince as his son.
After the ogress queen is cut apart for burial, her bones fill a valley that becomes a mountain, and her head in a lake becomes an island.
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