Motif
Wine as relief from existential misery or memory
wine_as_relief_from_existential_misery_or_memory
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.
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1 traditions
sufi
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The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam XXVI. / XXVII. / XXVIII. / XXIX.; lines 2774-2823 confidence: high
The quatrain asks whence the speaker was hurried here and whither hurried away without being asked, and says many cups of forbidden wine must drown the memory of the insolence.
The passage says forbidden wine must drown memory, and a cited source calls for wine to wash down the misery of the world.
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