Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

book required to preserve a complex dream

book_required_to_preserve_a_complex_dream

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


celtic welsh

  • 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, and it is said that no one knows the dream without a book because of the many colors of horses, arms, panoply, precious scarfs, and virtue-bearing stones.

    The passage says no bard or gifted seer knows the dream without a book because of the many colors and detailed objects within it.

    read in the book