Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

cup used to drown existential memory

cup_used_to_drown_existential_memory

A motif of the Sacred Substance and Divine Intoxication family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions


sufi

  • The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam XXVII. / XXVIII. / XXIX. / XXXI.; lines 1203-1224 confidence: medium

    The speaker asks what hurried him hither and hence without asking and calls for repeated cups to drown the memory of this impertinence.

    The speaker calls for another and another cup to drown the memory of the impertinent question of whence and whither.

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