This myth is of comparatively recent date, and is interesting as showing that all recollection of the original use of the footmark and basin had died away for many ages in the district.
The footmark is surrounded by a number of cup-shaped depressions.
That deity is not a part of nature, because he can make nature plastic to his tread, and leave his footmarkon the hard rock as if it were soft mud.
Then you'd see a footmarksame almost as ef it was a barefooted human.
Passing through these, they again emerged on to a space which was open, and over which the white winter mantle was spread, without so much as a footmark to mar its beauty.
There was no footmark upon the snow either of man or beast.
There were a few green lichens about it, and a few withered brackens of fern here and there upon the ground near, all else was a thick snow; no footmark to it, not the foot of a sheep.
Meg puzzled over this strange footmark till she forgot all the others.
From the fact that a man is planting his foot on soft ground, we infer that if he completes that motion a footmark will appear.
For instance, we infer from a footmark on soft ground that a foot has been impressed upon it.
When I examined the snow there was not a footmark on the roads to the back door or the front--not a footmark on the whole area.
Akin to this is the Vishnupada, the supposed footmark of Vishnu, which is very like the footmark of Hercules, of which Herodotus speaks.
It was probably derived from the footmark of Buddha, which is a favourite subject in the early Buddhistic sculptures.
Bending forward in his misery, suddenly his eye fell on the huge footmark made with a clay-clogged boot on the white floor.
Jack suddenly sprang up; if there was such a footmark within, would there not be others, similar, without?
Consequently this singlefootmark clearly indicates to the observer the forms of the teeth, of all the leg bones, thighs, shoulders, and of the trunk of the body of the animal which left the mark.
How numerous, then, may have been the softer animals of the ancient world, which have not left even a footmark to certify their existence to coming generations!
