Jan 19, 2025
The Soul and the Sea
“A Chilote Indian in the last stage of consumption, after preparing to die like a good Catholic, was heard to ask how the tide was running. When his sister told him that it was still coming in, he smiled, and said that he had yet a little while to live. It was his firm conviction that with the ebbing tide his soul would pass to the ocean of eternity.”
—J. G. Frazer, The Magic Art & the Evolution of Kings, part 1 (The Golden Bough, vol. I, 1911, p. 168).
The Chiloé Archipelago in modern times.
(Source: Roberto Herrera Pellizzari, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
