Motif
Ritual speech taboo delaying response to crisis
ritual_speech_taboo_delaying_response_to_crisis
A motif of the Curse, Blessing, and Performative Sacred Speech family, within the sub-family Taboos, Geasa, and Curse-Bound Boundaries. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
celtic irish
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The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge HERE FOLLOWETH ILIACH'S CLUMP-FIGHT / HERE NOW THE DEER-STALKING OF AMARGIN IN TALTIU / THE ADVENTURES OF CUROI SON OF DARE FOLLOW NOW / THE REPEATED WARNING OF SUALTAIM; lines 12951-13083 confidence: high
After receiving no answer that serves him, Sualtaim repeats the same warning at the rampart. A second lack of response is explained by geasa: Ulstermen must not speak before their king, and the king must not speak before his druids.
The Ulstermen fail to answer Sualtaim, and the passage explains this by geasa forbidding speech before the king and forbidding the king to speak before his druids.
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