Maize
Maize denotes the corn spirit, earth’s life-sustaining abundance, nourishment, and peace; American traditions also make the cob an emblem of life.
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.
- Selu is Cherokee tradition
why
Selu is the Cherokee Corn Mother, wife of the hunter Kanati and mother of the Thunder Boys, whose death at her own instruction becomes the origin of cultivated maize.