Motif
Purification after bloodshed
purification_after_bloodshed
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Purification and Pollution. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
2 occurrences
1 traditions
greek
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Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica THE THEBAID / THE EPIGONI / THE CYPRIA / THE AETHIOPIS; lines 7926-7961 confidence: high
Achilles kills Thersites after Thersites abuses and reviles him for supposed love for Penthesileia; an Achaean dispute follows over the killing.
After killing Thersites, Achilles sacrifices to Apollo, Artemis, and Leto and is purified by Odysseus from bloodshed.
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The Odyssey BOOK XIX / BOOK XX / BOOK XXI / BOOK XXII; lines 9910-10015 confidence: high
Ulysses tells Telemachus, the stockman, and the swineherd to remove the dead, make the women help, clean the tables and seats with sponges and water, and then kill the women with swords.
After the killings, the hall is physically cleaned with water and sponges, and Ulysses requests sulphur and fire to cleanse pollution and purify the cloisters.
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