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Shark

A shark, attested as a tattoo subject by a magazine gallery of named artists. REGISTERED WITH NO can_symbolize EDGE, DELIBERATELY. The one fetched source that discusses its meaning makes sacred and religious claims about LIVING communities - it calls the shark "the ultimate sacred animal" for the Maori and describes a Hindu narrative about Vishnu. A tier 2 trade magazine may suggest such a term but may never establish a sacred or ceremonial claim; that is tier 1's to establish. Converting those sentences into edges would be the tribal flattening at motif scale. The material is routed to T11.10 and the node ships bare.
Thin
Low confidenceneeds cultural review

0 attested · 4 promoted1 source · T2

Cultural review required

This entry makes claims about a community's practice that nobody qualified has confirmed. Treat it as research in progress, not settled fact.

What the research says

motifs_seed
Category
animal
Common styles
american traditional; neo traditional
Common themes
maritime; nature
Cultural flags
Maori and Hindu sacred claims present in the only meaning source; NOT converted to edges; routed to T11.10

Provenance

1 resolved

  • The symbology of shark tattoos (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 2

    Tattoo Life Crew, Tattoo Life

    CITED FOR THE MOTIF'S EXISTENCE AND FOR A REFUSAL, NOT FOR ITS SYMBOLIC CLAIMS. The page attests the shark as a tattoo subject with a gallery of named artists. It then makes cultural and religious claims a tier 2 trade magazine may not establish: that "For the Maori the shark" is "the ultimate sacred animal" and "For the Maori, the shark was simply a symbol of a higher power.", plus a Celtic reading and "In Hindu religion, the god Vishnu is often shown jumping out of the mouth of a big shark." Maori and Hindu communities are LIVING and hold these referents sacred; the source hierarchy reserves sacred, ceremonial and cultural claims for tier 1. NO can_symbolize EDGE WAS BUILT FROM THIS PAGE. motif_shark is registered with cultural_review_required and the material is routed to T11.10.

    industry source · published 2021-04-08 · retrieved 2026-08-30

Related concepts

4 links

Associated with · 2

  • → outgoingMaritimeThemeThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationneeds cultural review

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_themes of motif_shark ('maritime'). No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

  • → outgoingNatureThemeThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationneeds cultural review

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_themes of motif_shark ('nature'). No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

Frequently used in · 2

  • → outgoingAmerican TraditionalStyleThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationneeds cultural review

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_styles of motif_shark ('american traditional'). No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

  • → outgoingNeo TraditionalStyleThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationneeds cultural review

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_styles of motif_shark ('neo traditional'). No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.