Motif
Courtly renewal through cleansing and re-clothing
courtly_renewal_through_cleansing_and_re_clothing
A motif of the Initiation and Transformative Ordeal family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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egyptian
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The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF TEHUTI, THE ERPA / CHAPTER X / TALES OF TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE / THE STORY OF SANEHAT; lines 5745-5803 confidence: medium
The house contains a bath, representations of the heavens, Treasury objects, royal linen, finest myrrh used by the king, and chambers overseen by favored officials.
Sanehat casts away foreign dirt and nomad apparel, cuts and combs his hair, wears fine linen, anoints himself, sleeps on a bed, and says the years slide off his body.
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