Motif
Drink offering reaches the dead
drink_offering_reaches_the_dead
A motif of the Ancestor Rites and Feeding the Dead family, within the sub-family Food, Drink, and Worship for the Dead. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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sufi
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The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam LXXIV. / LXXV. / TAMAM SHUD. / NOTES.; lines 1699-1823 confidence: high
In Omar, the wine is said to sink into the ground to refresh the dust of a foregone wine-worshipper; Hafiz is quoted as instructing drinkers to pour a draught on the ground because it benefits another.
The passage says that in Omar the wine sinks into the ground to refresh the dust of a dead wine-worshipper, and Hafiz is quoted as saying the act brings gain to another.
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