Motif
Desire as fire quenched by restraint
desire_as_fire_quenched_by_restraint
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family Lovesickness and Longing. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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persian
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The Persian Literature, Volume 2, The Gulistan XVIII / XXIII / XXVIII / XXXII; lines 4239-4250 confidence: high
The father gives sage advice: "Lust is a fire" and one should pour "the water of continence" upon it to avoid hellish flames in the next world.
The father's advice explicitly identifies lust with fire and continence with water poured upon it.
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