Breast
The breast denotes the source and its provision, the infant's first world, holding feminine nourishment and, in the solar aureola, a masculine creative power.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Image
- Group
- Human World / Human Body
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Finnish folklore (1)
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is a kind of this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- Nakinneito bears Finnish folklore
why
Her most particular recorded trait is an endowment the tellers evidently enjoyed — breasts so voluptuous she can throw them over her shoulder — and she is most often seen out on the water, combing her long curly hair.