Motif
dangerous outsiders contained by a mountain wall
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A motif of the World Axis and Sacred Center family, within the sub-family Mountain Walls, Refuges, and Cairn Routes. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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islamic
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) CHAPTER XVII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XVIII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 23710-23808 confidence: high
“Gog and Magog waste the land; shall we therefore pay thee tribute, on condition that thou build a rampart between us and them?”
Gog and Magog are said to waste the land, and a rampart is built between them and the petitioning people in a mountain pass.
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