Knee
The knee denotes the body's strongest hinge, which bends in submission and supplication, and was anciently held the seat of generation and a lineage's strength.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Image
- Group
- Human World / Human Body
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Aztec 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.
- Tlatecuhtli bears Aztec mythology
why
Tlatecuhtli is the earth given the shape of a devouring monster in Aztec tradition: a primeval creature found swimming in the waters that covered the world before its ordering, with mouths at the joints of its body — elbows and knees — in addition to its main mouth, so that it bites and consumes from more than one place at once.