Motif
blood rain over battlefield
blood_rain_over_battlefield
A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
greek
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The Iliad THE FIFTH BATTLE AT THE SHIPS; AND THE ACTS OF AJAX. / BOOK XVI. / ARGUMENT / THE SIXTH BATTLE, THE ACTS AND DEATH OF PATROCLUS; lines 15911-16050 confidence: high
The cloud-compeller assents to fate and doom; the grieving heavens rain blood over the field as the god laments his son, predestined to die far from Lycia.
The heavens distill a shower of blood over the fatal field in connection with divine grief for Sarpedon's doom.
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