Motif
Dream animals interpreted as auspicious births
dream_animals_interpreted_as_auspicious_births
A motif of the Dream, Vision, and Altered Perception family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
confucian
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The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism, Part I - The Shu King, the Religious Portions of the Shih King, the Hsiao King (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 3) CELEBRATING THE MERIT AND SUCCESS OF KING WU. / CELEBRATING THE PRAISE OF KING WAN. / THE MINOR ODES OF THE KINGDOM. / DECADE I,; lines 14460-14593 confidence: high
After sleeping in the palace, the noble lord asks that his dreams be divined; the dreams include bears, grisly bears, cobras, and other snakes.
Dreams of bears and snakes are interpreted by the chief diviner as indications of sons and daughters, followed by birth-role predictions.
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