In one myth, the hero has been abandoned at the top of a tall, unclimbable tree. At this point the story goes into pure sound effects, 'w-w-w-ba...'. One just has to know that this is the noise of the hero's tears dropping softly down the high, striking leaves as they fall, alerting the friendly snake who will rescue him.
A. Gell 1995 “The language and the Forest” in Hirsch & O’Hanlon 1995 The Anthropology of Landscape Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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