Motif
seduction through sight
seduction_through_sight
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family Forbidden and Transgressive Love. 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 Persian Mystics: Jámí INTRODUCTION / EDITORIAL NOTE / INTRODUCTION / THE BABY DARLING; lines 788-861 confidence: high
In 'The Wiles of Absál,' Absál twines her hair as a musky chain to bind his heart, curls it into temptations, darkens her eyes with surma, adorns her brows as bows, and lays rose and musk as a snare for the beloved heart.
Absál uses hair, eye cosmetics, brows, cheek, lips, sleeve, and anklets to attract the man's gaze, and the passage states that love enters the heart through the eye.
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