Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

Book of Fate with inscribed or obliterated names

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A motif of the Death Attributed to Fate or Destiny family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions


sufi

  • The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam STANZA / STANZA / STANZA / STANZA; lines 4988-5043 confidence: high

    Variant stanza XCVIII wishes the world could be re-created so the speaker could catch the Book of Fate before closure and make the Writer inscribe names on a fairer leaf or obliterate them.

    The speaker imagines catching the Book of Fate before it closes and having the Writer inscribe or erase names.

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