Motif
Innate nature revealed despite upbringing
innate_nature_revealed_despite_upbringing
A motif of the Duality and Cosmic Opposition family, within the sub-family Innate nature, non-action, anti-artifice, and non-aggression. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
greek
-
Aesop's Fables; a new translation THE ATHENIAN AND THE THEBAN / THE GOATHERD AND THE GOAT / THE SHEEP AND THE DOG / THE SHEPHERD AND THE WOLF; lines 4230-4246 confidence: high
“A Shepherd found a Wolf's Cub straying in the pastures, and took him home and reared him along with his dogs.”
The wolf is raised with dogs but ultimately steals and shares sheep; the moral explicitly states that what is bred in the bone comes out in the flesh.
read in the book →