Cloth
Cloth denotes immortality, substituted sacrifice, relics, and the sky; Mesoamerican sources emphasize its intrinsic value, ritual weaving, tribute, and divine patronage.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Concept
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Japanese folklore (1)
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is, or is partly, 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.
- Ittan-momen is Japanese folklore
why
This sentient strip of cotton cloth, typically about one meter in length, possesses the uncanny ability to animate itself and take flight through the air.