Motif
fire-breathing animal ordeal
fire_breathing_animal_ordeal
A motif of the Initiation and Transformative Ordeal family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE SEVENTH.; lines 10726-10814 confidence: high
At morning, people gather in the sacred field of Mavors; the king sits in purple with an ivory sceptre; brazen-footed bulls breathe flames from adamantine nostrils and burn the grass.
The hero must approach fire-breathing bulls, withstand their flames, yoke them, and force them to plough.
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