Diamond
Diamond denotes invincible hardness, light, purity, constancy, royalty, and incorruptibility; contrary folklore makes flawed or alienated stones sources of sorrow, poison, disease, and misfortune.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Symbol
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Cherokee tradition (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.
- Uktena bears Cherokee tradition
why
On its forehead it bears a brilliant, blazing crystal called the Ulun'suti (or Ulunsuti), sometimes described as diamond-like or as glowing with its own light.