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Old Belief
← Maria Makiling
Woven bamboo basket heaped with fresh ginger rhizomes, one cut through to show a bright yellow face, standing on a wet red forest path in mist

the ginger in the basket

In the best-known episode a gift from her turns out, at home, to be something else — ginger that is gold, or gold that is ginger. The accounts disagree about which way round.

Basis: The transformed-gift motif · AI-generated

More of this creature

Forested tropical mountain rising beyond a still lake at dawn, mist in the valleys, palms and rainforest on both shores, one small outrigger boat on the waterthe mountain profile →Narrow red earth path running between mossy trunks and ferns into dense wet forest and losing itself in mist, nobody on itthe empty forest path →