Stone
Stone denotes hardness, permanence and foundation, closed against entry and therefore inviting meaning, raised upright to make a presence where there was only ground.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Image
- Group
- Creation and Cosmos / Earth
- Borne by
- 4 figures (2 are this, 2 carry it)
- Traditions
- Chilote folklore (1)Irish folklore (1)Mesopotamian mythology (1)South American folklore (general) (1)
- Same group
- Mountain
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.
- Asag is Mesopotamian mythology
why
This monstrous rock demon is not merely a creature of stone, but a living manifestation of geological fury.
- Lia Fail is Irish folklore
why
The Lia Fail is the Stone of Destiny of the Tuatha De Danann, brought from Falias to Tara, that cried aloud beneath the rightful king of Ireland.
- Boraro bears South American folklore (general)
why
Boraro are tall, pallid cannibal monsters of Tukano tradition in the Amazon, with backward-turned feet, no knees, glowing red eyes, and stone weapons for hunting humans.
- Trauco bears Chilote folklore
why
He is typically dressed in ragged bark-cloth or plant-fiber clothing and carries a small stone axe, which in some tellings he uses to fell trees or to strike fear into anyone who intrudes on his forest haunts.