Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

alteration or erasure of the fate record

alteration_or_erasure_of_the_fate_record

A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions


sufi

  • The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam XCII. / XCIII. / XCIV. / XCVI.; lines 4247-4305 confidence: high

    XCVIII wishes a winged angel could arrest the Roll of Fate and make a Recorder change or erase its entry; the variant and N. 457 rendering invoke a Writer, God, the Book or Roll of Fate, crossed-out names, and raised condition.

    The quatrain imagines an angel, recorder, writer, or God changing, inscribing, crossing out, or obliterating entries in the Roll or Book of Fate.

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