Stranger
The stranger denotes the unknown arriving at the threshold, feared as contamination and received as sacred, and often the god or the future in disguise.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Image
- Group
- Human World / Fundamentals of Work and Society
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Colombian 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.
- Bochica is Colombian folklore
why
Bochica belongs to the Muisca of the Colombian highlands, and appears in the colonial-era accounts as a bearded stranger who arrives from the east, travels among the people, and teaches them — weaving, agriculture, the making of things, and the ordering of law and worship.