Motif
contested sacred wine imagery
contested_sacred_wine_imagery
A motif of the Sacred Substance and Divine Intoxication family, within the sub-family Drinking, Social Disorder, and Religious Dispute. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
sufi
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The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam OF THE / QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM / OMAR KHAYYAM / ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA; lines 893-966 confidence: high
The passage says some quatrains seem to need mystical interpretation and many more literal interpretation; it asks how spiritual wine could wash a dead body and why cups of dead clay would be filled with Divinity by a later mystic.
The passage repeatedly treats wine as a disputed image: possibly spiritual or divine in Sufi interpretation, but possibly literal grape wine in the author's preferred reading.
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