Motif
Animal instructor reveals burial practice
animal_instructor_reveals_burial_practice
A motif of the Culture Hero and Founder family, within the sub-family Burial Instruction and Ritual Symbols. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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islamic
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 25973-26089 confidence: high
God sends a raven scratching on the ground to show the killer how to hide his brother's wrong; the killer laments that he was too weak to be like the raven and becomes repentant.
God sends a raven that scratches the ground to show the killer how to hide his brother's wrong.
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