Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

Celestial recurrence and human absence

celestial_recurrence_and_human_absence

A motif of the Sacred Time and Ritual Cycle 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: medium

    The rising Moon of Heaven looks for the speaker and Sweet-heart through the quivering Plane, and will later look among the leaves for one of them in vain.

    The Moon repeatedly rises and looks through the plane tree, but in the future will look for one of the pair in vain.

    read in the book