Motif
Ritual washing of the dead body
ritual_washing_of_the_dead_body
A motif of the Ancestor Rites and Feeding the Dead family, within the sub-family Rivers, Watersides, and Washing the Dead. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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sufi
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The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam STANZA / STANZA / STANZA / STANZA; lines 4988-5043 confidence: medium
Variant stanza XCI: “And wash my Body whence the Life has died.”
A variant line refers to washing the body after life has died.
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