Heart
The heart denotes the seat of feeling and of the soul, weighed for a life's truth, broken by love, and offered as the vital sacrifice.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Image
- Group
- Human World / Human Body
- 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.
- Chenoo bears Native American folklore
why
From Native American folklore, Chenoo is a cannibalistic ice giant with a heart made of ice.