Motif
animal allegory of collective history
animal_allegory_of_collective_history
A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
jewish pseudepigrapha
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The Book of Enoch INTRODUCTION / CHAPTERS / THE BOOK OF THE COURSES OF THE HEAVENLY LUMINARIES. (LXXII-LXXXII.) / THE DREAM-VISIONS. (LXXXIII-XC.); lines 4006-4098 confidence: high
Different genera of beasts and birds appear; a white bull is born among them, and its descendants include a wild ass, another white bull, a black wild boar, a white sheep, many boars, and twelve sheep.
The passage narrates a long sequence of births, conflicts, migrations, leadership changes, and settlement entirely through animal figures such as bulls, asses, boars, sheep, and wolves.
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