Motif
animal and banner transformations in dreams
animal_and_banner_transformations_in_dreams
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
confucian
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The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism, Part I - The Shu King, the Religious Portions of the Shih King, the Hsiao King (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 3) CELEBRATING THE PRAISE OF KING WAN. / THE MINOR ODES OF THE KINGDOM. / DECADE I, / THE WU YANG IS SUPPOSED TO CELEBRATE THE LARGENESS AND; lines 14595-14670 confidence: medium
The herdsmen dream of multitudes, fishes, tortoise-and-serpent, and falcon banners; the chief diviner reads multitudes becoming fishes as plentiful years and tortoise-and-serpent becoming falcon banners as increasing population.
Dream images shift from multitudes to fishes and from tortoise-and-serpent to falcon banners, each shift receiving an omen interpretation.
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