Motif
Cosmos as game board or field
cosmos_as_game_board_or_field
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family, within the sub-family Cosmos and Cosmology. 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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The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam XLVI. / XLVII. / XLVIII. / XLIX.; lines 1363-1392 confidence: high
“'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days / Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays” and then moves, mates, slays, and lays pieces back in the closet.
Life is figured as a chequer-board of nights and days and as a field into which the addressee is tossed like a ball.
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