Motif
animal-borne passage over water to a distant land
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A motif of the Sacred Waters and Passage Through Water family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 10597-10622 confidence: medium
Footnote 75 identifies the sought object as the fleece of the ram that carried Phryxus along the Hellespont to Colchis.
Phryxus is said to have been carried by a ram along the Hellespont to Colchis.
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