Motif
Animated cult image made by magical craft
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A motif of the Sacred Craft and Divinely Aided Construction family, within the sub-family Animated Images, Cult Objects, and Idols. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
sufi
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Poems from the Divan of Hafiz XXXIV / XXXVI / XXXVII / XXXIX; lines 3892-3989 confidence: high
In the cited tradition, Al Samiri collects ornaments, melts them in a furnace into a calf, adds dust from Gabriel's horse's footsteps, and the calf lows and becomes animated; the Israelites worship it.
Al Samiri melts ornaments into a calf, adds angelic horse-footstep dust, and the calf becomes animate and is worshipped.
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