Motif
drink while alive because the dead do not return
drink_while_alive_because_the_dead_do_not_return
A motif of the Sacred Substance and Divine Intoxication family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
sufi
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The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam XXXI. / XXXII. / XXXIV. / XXXV.; lines 2932-2956 confidence: high
XXXV: the speaker leans to the lip of an earthen urn to learn the secret of life; the urn murmurs, “Drink!--for, once dead, you never shall return.”
The main quatrain, the O. 100 translation, and the cited C. 489 passage all link the injunction to drink wine with the assertion that there is no return after death.
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