Motif
Refuge in caves and mountains during calamity
refuge_in_caves_and_mountains_during_calamity
A motif of the Flood, Fire, and Cosmic Renewal family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
native american southeast
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Myths of the Cherokee ILLUSTRATIONS / MYTHS OF THE CHEROKEE / I--INTRODUCTION / II--HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE CHEROKEE; lines 1775-1869 confidence: high
Cherokee wartime extremity: burned towns, wasted fields, depleted ammunition, dead warriors, fugitives in mountains and caves, starvation, smallpox, factional division, Ata-kullakulla's Charleston peace treaty, and population reduction.
Cherokee fugitives are described as hiding in caves in the mountains while suffering starvation and disease.
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