Foot
The foot denotes contact with earth and the ground of reality, bared to receive its blessing, while cloven or wounded it marks a chthonic nature.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Image
- Group
- Human World / Human Body
- Borne by
- 2 figures
- Traditions
- Alpine folklore (1)Mayan mythology (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.
- Berchta bears Alpine folklore
why
The ragged Alpine winter woman with one flattened treadle foot, who inspects barns and spinning between Christmas and Twelfth Night.
- Xtabay bears Mayan mythology
why
She is most commonly pictured as a strikingly beautiful woman with long, flowing hair, seated at the foot of a ceiba tree combing her hair or bathing by moonlight, and calling out to or singing for men passing by alone at night, particularly along lonely roads or paths on the outskirts of town.