Motif
Making sunshine by sympathetic fire, heat, or solar imitation
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A motif of the Sacred Fire and Divine Light family, within the sub-family Sympathetic and Imitative Fire Magic. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
comparative
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) PREFACE. / J. G. FRAZER. / CHAPTER I. THE KING OF THE WOOD. / MACAULAY.; lines 775-852 confidence: high
A New Caledonian wizard prepares a sunshine-making charm with plants, coral, two locks of a living child's hair, and ancestor teeth or jawbone, then takes it to a high mountain catching the first morning sun.
The New Caledonian altar fire and invocation, Bechuana fire rite, and Melanesian mock sun all aim at making sunshine or strengthening solar heat.
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