Motif
descent beneath earth to the Yellow Spring after death
descent_beneath_earth_to_the_yellow_spring_after_death
A motif of the Afterlife Navigation and Passage family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer CHAPTER XXIV. / CHAPTER XXV. / CHAPTER XXVI. / CONTINGENCIES.; lines 11748-11888 confidence: medium
Hui Tzŭ says Chuang Tzŭ's theme is the useless; Chuang Tzŭ replies that one must understand the useless before the useful, and uses the example of the vast earth, the foot's small portion, and going beneath to the Yellow Spring after death.
Chuang Tzŭ says that after a man turns up his toes, he goes beneath the earth to the Yellow Spring.
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