Motif
book as necessary vessel for preserving a complex vision
book_as_necessary_vessel_for_preserving_a_complex_vision
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family, within the sub-family Revelation and Scripture. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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celtic welsh
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The Mabinogion THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN / PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC / GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN / THE DREAM OF RHONABWY; lines 5809-5878 confidence: high
The tale is called the Dream of Rhonabwy; no one knows it without a book because of the varied colors of horses, arms, panoply, precious scarfs, and virtue-bearing stones.
The narrator says no bard or gifted seer knows the dream without a book because of the many colors and wondrous details.
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