Dusk
Dusk denotes the darkening interval that still holds the day's last light, quickening night animals and the uncanny, and figuring the evening of a life.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Image
- Group
- Creation and Cosmos / Fire — Light and Darkness
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- East Asian folklore (general) (1)
- Same group
- Fire
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.
- Three-legged bird bears East Asian folklore (general)
why
The bird's most distinctive feature, its three legs, is believed to represent the three phases of the day: dawn, noon, and dusk, further emphasizing its solar association.