Motif
cosmic dominion praised through game imagery
cosmic_dominion_praised_through_game_imagery
A motif of the Supreme Ruler and Cosmic Sovereignty family, within the sub-family Symbolic and Ritual Displays of Dominion. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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sufi
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Poems from the Divan of Hafiz GERTRUDE LOWTHIAN BELL / LONDON / WILLIAM HEINEMANN / INTRODUCTION; lines 415-498 confidence: medium
Hafiz celebrates Shah Shudja’s accession and lifting of a wine edict with images of the wine-cup, the daughter of the grape emerging from retirement, and the heavens as a ball in the ruler’s polo stick.
Hafiz praises Shah Shudja by imagining the ball of the heavens in the crook of his polo stick and the whole world as his playing-ground.
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