Hood
The hood denotes invisibility, death, withdrawal, thought, and spiritual detachment, but also blindness or narrowed vision; it accompanies underworld and waning-sun figures.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Symbol
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Inuit mythology (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.
- Qalupalik bears Inuit mythology
why
… womens' parka with a large hood or pouch at the back …