Motif
courtly reward for verbal skill
courtly_reward_for_verbal_skill
A motif of the Storytelling and Narrative as Sacred Power family. 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 Persian Mystics: Jalálu'd-dín Rúmí THE TRUE MOSQUE / A PRAYER / ALL RELIGIONS ARE ONE / APPENDIX: A NOTE ON PERSIAN POETRY; lines 2319-2416 confidence: high
Khidr Khán is said to keep four trays of gold ready and dispense gold by the handful to successful poets.
The passage repeatedly connects successful poetic performance or rejoinder with monetary reward from rulers or patrons.
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