Motif
sealed vessel containing spirits
sealed_vessel_containing_spirits
A motif of the Sacred Vessel and Container family, within the sub-family Sealed Containers of Beings and Dangerous Contents. 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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Poems from the Divan of Hafiz XXXVIII / XXXIX / XLIII / NOTES; lines 3221-3341 confidence: high
Solomon harnesses the wind, speaks with birds, has Assaf as minister, bears a seal engraved with God’s unknown name, and uses it to fasten bottles containing Jinn.
The passage describes bottles in which Solomon imprisoned the Jinn and links them to Arabian Nights fishermen’s finds.
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