Theft of light by being swallowed and reborn. The hero transforms himself to a particle. The daughter of the guardian of light swallows him as she is drinking water. He is reborn. As a child in the house he steals light.
Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Acquisition of culture. · Acquisition of livable environment. · view the constellation · filed as A1411.2
“His attendants laid out the body of the chief’s child, took out the intestines, burned them at the rear of the chief’s house, and placed. the body on the bed which his father had built for his son. The chief and the chieftainess wailed every morning under the corpse of their dead son, and his tribe cried with them. They did so every day after the young man’s death. One morning before daylight came, the chieftainess went again to wail.”
— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 7 · served from our shelf receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan
Attested across traditions
- North American IndigenousTales of the North American Indians, Tale 7 receipt