Mirror
The mirror denotes truth and self-knowledge, the mind and soul as reflecting surface, and the cosmos as it returns the light of a supreme intelligence.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Image
- Group
- Human World / House and Home
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- African folklore (general) (1)
- Same group
- Broom
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.
- Mami Wata bears African folklore (general)
why
In some tellings she appears fully human on land, distinguishable only by unusual beauty, wealth, or a telltale attraction to mirrors, combs, and other vanity items left as offerings at riverbanks and shores.