Motif
Blood pollution makes a warrior unfit for prayer
blood_pollution_makes_a_warrior_unfit_for_prayer
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Purification and Pollution. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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The Iliad THE ACTS OF DIOMED. / BOOK VI. / ARGUMENT. / THE EPISODES OF GLAUCUS AND DIOMED, AND OF HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE.; lines 7062-7192 confidence: high
Hector refuses wine, says blood-stained hands are unfit for prayer, and instructs Hecuba and the matrons to offer odors, the finest mantle, and twelve heifers to Minerva so Troy may be spared from Tydides.
Hector refuses to lift hands stained with human gore to the pure skies or offer polluted praise to Jove.
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