Motif
Flight to mountain refuge
flight_to_mountain_refuge
A motif of the World Axis and Sacred Center family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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mongol
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The Mongols - A History CHAPTER VIII / DEATH AND BURIAL OF THE CONQUEROR / CHAPTER IX / CHAPTER X; lines 7719-7793 confidence: medium
Mongols take Gandja, give the city to flames, and slaughter people; Chormagun sacks cities across Armenia, Albania, and Georgia; Georgian princes and people flee to mountains, and Queen Rusudan chooses Usaneth fortress as asylum.
Georgian princes and people, unable to defend themselves, seek refuge in the mountains during Mongol invasion.
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