Motif
Compassion for an innocent child after refused hospitality
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A motif of the Hospitality Test and Stranger Guest family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
egyptian
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Legends of the Gods: The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations A LEGEND OF THE GOD KHNEMU AND OF A SEVEN YEARS' FAMINE. / I.--INCANTATIONS AGAINST REPTILES AND NOXIOUS CREATURES IN GENERAL. / ANOTHER CHAPTER. / II.--THE NARRATIVE OF ISIS.; lines 4342-4462 confidence: medium
In an inhabited place, a woman of quality shuts her doors against Isis because of the scorpions. The Seven Scorpions take counsel and put their venom on Tefen's tail. Taha opens her door, and Isis enters the house of the miserable lady.
The woman who shut her door receives no help after her son is stung, while Isis is moved by grief for the child described as free from fault and acts to make him live.
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