Motif
Motherland as common parent and nurse
motherland_as_common_parent_and_nurse
A motif of the Sacred Feminine and Mother Goddess family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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greek
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The Republic PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE. / BOOK I. / BOOK II. / BOOK III.; lines 13507-13621 confidence: high
The fiction is to be communicated to rulers, soldiers, and people: their youth was a dream; they were formed and fed in the womb of the earth, along with their arms; the earth sent them up, and their country is mother and nurse.
The country is to be regarded as mother and nurse, binding citizens to defend her and treat one another as brothers.
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