Motif
authority as steersman, refuge, and rescuer
authority_as_steersman_refuge_and_rescuer
A motif of the Royal Legitimacy and Sacred Kingship family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
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egyptian
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The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians CHAPTER X / TALES OF TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE / THE STORY OF SANEHAT / THE STORY OF THE EDUCATED PEASANT KHUENANPU; lines 5967-6043 confidence: high
The peasant comes a second time to complain before Rensi and addresses him as steward, lord, rudder, pole, and measuring rope; he accuses a great lord of taking from the unprotected and notes Rensi's beer and bread.
Rensi is addressed as a rudder and later described through boat, quay, refuge, drowning, and rescue imagery; the peasant asks him not to let him perish.
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