Breath
Breath denotes life and soul, the spirit animating clay and world alike, and at once the most vital and most insubstantial of possessions.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Image
- Group
- Creation and Cosmos / Cosmos
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Native American 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.
- Iya bears Native American folklore
why
Iya is a huge, formless monster of Lakota tradition, known by its fetid breath and its appetite for human flesh.