Motif
Sacred-site omen synchronized with holy successor’s death
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A motif of the Prophecy and Systematic Divination family, within the sub-family Death and Doom Omens. 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 Mesnevi CHAPTER III. / CHAPTER IV. / CHAPTER V. / CHAPTER VI.; lines 4640-4767 confidence: medium
Husām visits Jelāl’s shrine after ten years as successor and is told that the gilt crescent on the cupola has fallen; he connects this with the ten-year anniversary of Jelāl’s death and says his own dissolution is near.
The fallen gilt crescent on Jelāl’s mausoleum causes Husām to announce his approaching death, and he dies when the crescent is replaced.
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