Motif
mythic person remembered through a tree
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A motif of the World Axis and Sacred Center family, within the sub-family Trees in Mythic Action, Vows, and Memory. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE TENTH. / EXPLANATION.; lines 4205-4260 confidence: medium
The pine is described as pleasing to the Mother of the Gods because Attis “put off the human form, and hardened into that trunk.”
The pine is linked with Attis, poplars with the Heliades, and laurel with Daphne.
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