Motif
treacherous sowing of discord yields fatal harvest
treacherous_sowing_of_discord_yields_fatal_harvest
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Mirrored Retribution. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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The Mesnevi OF QONYA. / PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE.; lines 6964-7025 confidence: high
“The seeds of discord sown by that knave’s treacherous hand” produce a fatal harvest; skulls, brains, bodies, and souls are described.
The narrator says the knave’s treacherous seeds of discord produce a fatal harvest of skulls, brains, blood, and bodies.
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