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On cognitive aspects of rhetorical time reckoning: metaphor and image-schema in calendrical divination in Okinawa.
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In calendrical divination in Okinawa, people appropriate a familiar spatial concept, including its social-relational implications, for creating a meaningful arrangement of days and years. The layout of a typical Okinawan hamlet is structured by descent relations: ancestors at the back and offspring in front. "A child nestling in the embrace of its parent" is an expression of such living space, where dwellers are said to receive spiritual protection from their forebears. My field observations reveal that the same structure is also related to the context of calendrical divination. The Chinese ...
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