Motif
animal guide marks sacred settlement site
animal_guide_marks_sacred_settlement_site
A motif of the Divine Intervention and Guidance family, within the sub-family Animal and Nature Helpers. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE THIRD.; lines 4261-4331 confidence: high
Cadmus consults the oracle of Phoebus; the oracle says an unyoked heifer will meet him in lonely fields and that he should build a Boeotian city where she lies down.
An unyoked heifer guides Cadmus and identifies the place for the city by lying down.
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