Motif
wine as answer to mortality and sorrow
wine_as_answer_to_mortality_and_sorrow
A motif of the Sacred Substance and Divine Intoxication family, within the sub-family Wine, Consolation, and Mortality. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
sufi
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The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM / MONSIEUR J.B. NICOLAS / THE QUATRAINS OF KHAYYAM / THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 12913-13101 confidence: high
Youth belongs to wine and beauty; “water once brought ruin to this world by annihilating it,” so the speaker chooses to drown in wine.
Wine is repeatedly requested or praised amid statements about dust, grief, fleeting existence, no return from death, and the serpent of grief.
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