Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

hidden youth discovered through water drawing

hidden_youth_discovered_through_water_drawing

A motif of the Recognition Tokens and Identity Proofs family, within the sub-family Domestic Work and Water-Drawing Reveals. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions


islamic

  • The Koran (Al-Qur'an) CHAPTER XI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 20212-20234 confidence: high

    Travellers send someone to draw water; he lowers a bucket, finds a youth, and the travellers conceal Joseph so they may sell him as merchandise, while God knows what they do.

    Travellers draw water with a bucket and discover Joseph as a youth in the well.

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