Motif
Life token
life_token
A motif of the External Soul and Life-Token family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
3 occurrences
2 traditions
oceanic
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Oceanic Mythology NOTES 321 / PART II / NOTES 323 / NOTES 325; lines 15233-15366 confidence: high
“For other instances of the life-token” followed by citations from Torres Straits, New Guinea, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
The passage explicitly lists other instances of the life-token across several regions.
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Oceanic Mythology NOTES 327 / NOTES 333 / NOTES 335 / NOTES 339; lines 16164-16223 confidence: medium
Note 46 cites “other examples of the life-token” in Halmahera (Loda), Soemba, New Guinea (Goodenough Bay), Torres Straits, and New Hebrides sources.
The note explicitly identifies comparative examples of the “life-token.”
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georgian
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The Man in the Panther's Skin MINERALS, GEMS, ETC. / ASTRONOMY. / RELIGION, ETC. / ISLAM.; lines 16811-16996 confidence: low
The section lists burial, grave, mourning garb, mourning colours, shroud, Devil, Devis, Kadjis, life token, Merani/Pegasus, presentiment, Siren, sorcery, moly, stoning to death, and Wizard/prophet.
The superstitions section includes a life token entry.
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