Motif
Divinely granted cultural emblems
divinely_granted_cultural_emblems
A motif of the Culture Hero and Founder family, within the sub-family Divine Law and Civilizing Gifts. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
islamic
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) A TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS / THE KORAN. / PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE / SECTION I.; lines 2037-2091 confidence: medium
“GOD had bestowed four peculiar things on the Arabs-that their turbans should be to them instead of diadems, their tents instead of walls and houses, their swords instead of entrenchments, and their poems instead of written laws.”
A saying attributes four distinctive Arab institutions or emblems to God's bestowal: turbans, tents, swords, and poems.
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