Motif
foreknown tomb and name
foreknown_tomb_and_name
A motif of the Prophecy and Systematic Divination family, within the sub-family Death and Doom Omens. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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daoist
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Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer KNOWLEDGE TRAVELS NORTH. / CHAPTER XXIII. / CHAPTER XXIV. / CHAPTER XXV.; lines 11367-11501 confidence: medium
Hsi Wei says divination favored burial at Sha-ch'iu; a deep grave revealed a stone coffin whose inscription said posterity could not be trusted and Duke Ling would seize it for his tomb.
A divined burial place contains a stone coffin with an inscription anticipating Duke Ling's seizure of it for his tomb, and the narrator notes that the Duke had been named Ling long before.
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