Comparative mythology corpus

batch.motif.greek-hesiod-homeric-hymns-evelyn-white-gutenberg-l2169-l2282

batch.motif.greek-hesiod-homeric-hymns-evelyn-white-gutenberg-l2169-l2282

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record_id: batch.motif.greek-hesiod-homeric-hymns-evelyn-white-gutenberg-l2169-l2282
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
passage_locator:
  label: INTRODUCTION / BIBLIOGRAPHY / HESIOD / HESIODS WORKS AND DAYS; lines 2169-2282
  start: '2169'
  end: '2282'
  translation: Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
  notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
    human review required.
canonical_text:
  quote: ''
  summary: The passage gives practical and ritual instructions on sailing seasons,
    moderation, marriage, friendship, speech, feasting, libations, bodily conduct,
    purity at rivers and springs, taboos concerning housebuilding, vessels, boys,
    sacrifices, and days of the month sacred or useful for work.
  language: English
  quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
  text: Spring sailing is said to begin when fig-tree leaves on the topmost shoot
    are as large as a cow's footprint, but the speaker does not praise this sailing
    time and warns against sea disaster.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: obs:2
  text: The speaker instructs not to put all goods in ships, to leave the greater
    part behind, and to observe due measure and proportion.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: obs:3
  text: The passage advises bringing home a wife at the right age, marrying a grown
    maiden from nearby, and watching that the marriage not become a subject of neighbors'
    mockery.
  category: relationship
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: obs:4
  text: A good wife is described as a great gain, while a bad or greedy wife is said
    to harm her husband and bring him to raw old age.
  category: attribute
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: obs:5
  text: The speaker instructs the addressee to avoid angering the deathless gods and
    gives rules for friendship, retaliation, reconciliation, and not letting the face
    shame the heart.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: obs:6
  text: The passage warns against reputations for lavishness, churlishness, association
    with rogues, and slander of good men.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: obs:7
  text: The passage forbids taunting a man with poverty, calls poverty sent by the
    deathless gods, and praises a sparing, orderly tongue.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: obs:8
  text: At a common feast with many guests, the passage advises against boorish conduct.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: obs:9
  text: The passage forbids pouring a libation of sparkling wine to Zeus or other
    deathless gods after dawn with unwashed hands, saying the gods will not hear such
    prayers.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: obs:10
  text: The passage gives restrictions on urination and exposure in relation to the
    sun, roads, night, enclosed courts, the fireside, rivers, and springs.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
  - ev:12
- id: obs:11
  text: The passage says not to beget children after returning from an ill-omened
    burial, but after a festival of the gods.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: obs:12
  text: Before crossing ever-rolling rivers on foot, the passage instructs one to
    pray while gazing into the water and to wash hands in clear water.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
- id: obs:13
  text: The passage says gods are angry with a person who crosses a river with hands
    unwashed of wickedness and bring trouble afterward.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
- id: obs:14
  text: At a cheerful festival of the gods, the passage forbids cutting the withered
    from the quick on the five-branched thing with bright steel.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: obs:15
  text: The passage forbids placing the ladle upon the mixing-bowl at a wine party
    because malignant ill-luck is attached to that.
  category: object
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: obs:16
  text: When building a house, the passage warns not to leave it rough-hewn lest a
    cawing crow settle on it and croak.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: obs:17
  text: The passage warns not to eat or wash from uncharmed pots because mischief
    is in them.
  category: object
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: obs:18
  text: The passage forbids boys or infants of specified ages from sitting on things
    which may not be moved, saying this has harmful effects.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
- id: obs:19
  text: The passage says a man should not clean his body with water in which a woman
    has washed, because bitter mischief is in it for a time.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
- id: obs:20
  text: The passage forbids mocking mysteries when coming upon a burning sacrifice,
    saying Heaven is angry at this also.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
- id: obs:21
  text: Talk is described as mischievous, light, easily raised, hard to bear, difficult
    to remove, never wholly dying away when many voice her, and in some ways divine.
  category: attribute
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
- id: obs:22
  text: The passage instructs marking days that come from Zeus, telling slaves of
    them, and treating the thirtieth day as best for reviewing work and distributing
    supplies.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
- id: obs:23
  text: The first, fourth, and seventh days are called holy; the seventh is linked
    to Leto bearing Apollo with the blade of gold.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
- id: obs:24
  text: The eighth, ninth, eleventh, and twelfth days are described as good or excellent
    for human works including shearing, reaping, and loom work.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
- id: obs:25
  text: The thirteenth day of the waxing month is to be avoided for beginning to sow
    but is called best for setting plants.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:16
figures:
- id: fig:1
  name_or_label: speaker-adviser
  description: The first-person speaker gives instructions and warnings to the addressee.
  role_refs:
  - role:1
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:3
- id: fig:2
  name_or_label: men or poor mortals
  description: Men are described as sailing from ignorance and seeking wealth, while
    poor mortals fear dying among waves.
  role_refs:
  - role:2
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: fig:3
  name_or_label: wife
  description: A wife is brought into the man's house; she may be good or bad, and
    the bad wife is described as greedy and harmful.
  role_refs:
  - role:3
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: fig:4
  name_or_label: friend
  description: A friend may be treated like a brother; rules are given for wronging,
    repayment, reconciliation, and changing friends.
  role_refs:
  - role:4
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: fig:5
  name_or_label: deathless gods
  description: The gods can be angered, receive libations and prayers, send poverty,
    and bring trouble upon impure conduct.
  role_refs:
  - role:5
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:5
  - ev:7
  - ev:10
- id: fig:6
  name_or_label: Zeus
  description: Zeus receives libations and is the source of marked days; he is also
    called all-wise in the calendrical section.
  role_refs:
  - role:6
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  - ev:14
- id: fig:7
  name_or_label: Leto
  description: Leto is named as the one who bore Apollo on the seventh day.
  role_refs:
  - role:7
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
- id: fig:8
  name_or_label: Apollo
  description: Apollo is named as borne by Leto on the seventh day, with the phrase
    blade of gold attached to him in the passage.
  role_refs:
  - role:8
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
- id: fig:9
  name_or_label: Talk
  description: Talk is personified as mischievous, hard to bear, difficult to be rid
    of, persistent, and in some ways divine.
  role_refs:
  - role:9
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
- id: fig:10
  name_or_label: slaves
  description: Slaves are to be told about the days that come from Zeus.
  role_refs:
  - role:10
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
- id: fig:11
  name_or_label: spider
  description: The spider spins its web in full day on the twelfth day.
  role_refs:
  - role:11
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
- id: fig:12
  name_or_label: the Wise One
  description: The Wise One gathers her pile on the twelfth day.
  role_refs:
  - role:12
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
- id: fig:13
  name_or_label: woman at the loom
  description: A woman is instructed to set up her loom and advance her work on the
    twelfth day.
  role_refs:
  - role:13
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
roles:
- id: role:1
  label: instructor
  assigned_to:
  - fig:1
  basis: The speaker repeatedly says what should and should not be done.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:3
- id: role:2
  label: risk-taking sailors or mortals
  assigned_to:
  - fig:2
  basis: Men undertake sailing for wealth despite danger among waves.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: role:3
  label: household spouse
  assigned_to:
  - fig:3
  basis: The wife is brought home, evaluated as good or bad, and associated with household
    fortune or harm.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: role:4
  label: social equal or companion
  assigned_to:
  - fig:4
  basis: The passage discusses making a friend equal to a brother and rules for wronging
    or welcoming him back.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: role:5
  label: divine enforcers of purity and conduct
  assigned_to:
  - fig:5
  basis: Gods are angered by improper acts, reject prayers, and bring trouble.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  - ev:10
  - ev:12
- id: role:6
  label: recipient of libation and giver of days
  assigned_to:
  - fig:6
  basis: Zeus is named in libation rules and as source of days to be marked.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  - ev:14
- id: role:7
  label: divine mother
  assigned_to:
  - fig:7
  basis: Leto is said to have borne Apollo.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
- id: role:8
  label: divine child associated with holy day
  assigned_to:
  - fig:8
  basis: Apollo is named as the child borne by Leto on the seventh, a holy day.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
- id: role:9
  label: personified social force
  assigned_to:
  - fig:9
  basis: Talk is given attributes and said to be in some ways divine.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
- id: role:10
  label: household laborers informed of calendar
  assigned_to:
  - fig:10
  basis: The addressee is told to tell slaves the marked days.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
- id: role:11
  label: calendar omen or temporal marker
  assigned_to:
  - fig:11
  basis: The spider's web-spinning is tied to the twelfth day.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
- id: role:12
  label: female figure associated with gathering
  assigned_to:
  - fig:12
  basis: The Wise One is said to gather her pile on the twelfth day.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
- id: role:13
  label: worker following auspicious day
  assigned_to:
  - fig:13
  basis: A woman should set up her loom and advance her work on the twelfth day.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
symbols:
- id: sym:1
  label: fig-tree leaves as sailing sign
  literal_form: leaves on the topmost shoot of a fig-tree as large as a cow's footprint
  associated_figures:
  - fig:2
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: sym:2
  label: sea and waves
  literal_form: sea, waves, hollow ships, sailing
  associated_figures:
  - fig:2
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: sym:3
  label: measure and proportion
  literal_form: due measure and proportion in loading ships and wagons
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: sym:4
  label: libation wine
  literal_form: sparkling wine poured to Zeus and the deathless gods
  associated_figures:
  - fig:5
  - fig:6
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: sym:5
  label: unwashed hands
  literal_form: hands unwashed before libation or river crossing
  associated_figures:
  - fig:5
  - fig:6
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  - ev:10
- id: sym:6
  label: sun
  literal_form: the sun faced during bodily conduct rules
  associated_figures: []
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: sym:7
  label: fireside
  literal_form: fireside in the house
  associated_figures: []
  taxonomy_refs:
  - fire
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: sym:8
  label: river water
  literal_form: sweet-flowing water of ever-rolling rivers, soft flood, clear lovely
    water
  associated_figures:
  - fig:5
  taxonomy_refs:
  - water
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
- id: sym:9
  label: springs and river mouths
  literal_form: mouths of rivers flowing to the sea and springs
  associated_figures:
  - fig:5
  taxonomy_refs:
  - water
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
- id: sym:10
  label: burning sacrifice
  literal_form: burning sacrifice encountered by the addressee
  associated_figures:
  - fig:5
  taxonomy_refs:
  - fire
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
- id: sym:11
  label: mixing-bowl and ladle
  literal_form: ladle placed upon the mixing-bowl at a wine party
  associated_figures: []
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: sym:12
  label: cawing crow on rough-hewn house
  literal_form: cawing crow settling on an unfinished house and croaking
  associated_figures: []
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: sym:13
  label: uncharmed pots
  literal_form: pots from which one might eat or wash
  associated_figures: []
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: sym:14
  label: divine days and month numbers
  literal_form: first, fourth, seventh, eighth, ninth, eleventh, twelfth, thirtieth,
    and thirteenth days
  associated_figures:
  - fig:6
  - fig:7
  - fig:8
  - fig:10
  - fig:13
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
  - ev:15
  - ev:16
- id: sym:15
  label: spider web
  literal_form: airy-swinging spider spinning its web in full day
  associated_figures:
  - fig:11
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
- id: sym:16
  label: loom
  literal_form: woman's loom set up on the twelfth day
  associated_figures:
  - fig:13
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
scenes:
- id: scene:1
  label: Spring sailing and measured loading
  summary: The speaker identifies a spring sign for sailing, warns that this season
    is dangerous, and advises leaving most goods behind while observing measure and
    proportion.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:1
  - sym:2
  - sym:3
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: scene:2
  label: Marriage instruction
  summary: The speaker sets an age and conditions for marriage and contrasts the benefit
    of a good wife with the harm of a bad one.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:3
  symbol_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: scene:3
  label: Friendship, reputation, speech, and feast conduct
  summary: The speaker gives rules about gods' anger, friendship, retaliation, reconciliation,
    public reputation, poverty, orderly speech, and behavior at a common feast.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:4
  - fig:5
  - fig:9
  symbol_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:4
  - ev:5
  - ev:6
  - ev:13
- id: scene:4
  label: Ritual purity and bodily taboos
  summary: The passage gives rules about washed hands for libations, bodily conduct
    near sun, road, fireside, rivers, and springs, and prayer and washing before crossing
    rivers.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:5
  - fig:6
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:4
  - sym:5
  - sym:6
  - sym:7
  - sym:8
  - sym:9
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  - ev:8
  - ev:9
  - ev:10
  - ev:12
- id: scene:5
  label: Festival and domestic taboos
  summary: At festivals, wine parties, and housebuilding, the passage forbids specified
    actions involving cutting, the ladle and mixing-bowl, unfinished houses, uncharmed
    pots, movable objects, women's wash-water, and mocking mysteries at sacrifice.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:5
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:10
  - sym:11
  - sym:12
  - sym:13
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
  - ev:12
- id: scene:6
  label: Days from Zeus and auspicious work calendar
  summary: The passage instructs the addressee to mark days from Zeus and identifies
    specific days as holy, good, excellent, or to be avoided for particular tasks.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:6
  - fig:7
  - fig:8
  - fig:10
  - fig:11
  - fig:12
  - fig:13
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:14
  - sym:15
  - sym:16
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
  - ev:15
  - ev:16
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
  label: Practical wisdom through measured conduct
  taxonomy_refs:
  - wisdom
  basis: The passage repeatedly gives prescriptive advice about sailing, goods, marriage,
    friendship, speech, feasting, purity, and work days, including the maxim that
    measure and proportion are best.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:2
  - ev:3
  - ev:5
  - ev:14
  confidence: high
  cautions: This is a broad didactic motif rather than a narrative episode.
- id: motif:2
  label: Divine judgment for ritual impurity or disrespect
  taxonomy_refs:
  - divine_judgment
  basis: The gods reject prayers made with unwashed hands, become angry at impure
    river crossing and mockery of mysteries, and bring trouble afterward.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  - ev:10
  - ev:12
  confidence: high
  cautions: The passage presents sanctions as warnings, not as a narrated punishment
    event.
- id: motif:3
  label: Sacred exchange through libation and prayer
  taxonomy_refs:
  - sacred_exchange
  basis: The passage links libations and prayers to divine hearing, with purity conditions
    required for the exchange to succeed.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  - ev:10
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The exchange is implicit in ritual prescription; no completed offering
    scene is narrated.
- id: motif:4
  label: Seasonal and calendrical order of human labor
  taxonomy_refs:
  - seasonal_cycle
  basis: The passage identifies spring sailing by fig-tree leaves and assigns work,
    worship, sowing, planting, supplies, shearing, reaping, and weaving to particular
    days of the month.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:14
  - ev:15
  - ev:16
  confidence: high
  cautions: The monthly calendar is emphasized more than a full seasonal cycle.
- id: motif:5
  label: Divine parent and sacred birth tied to a holy day
  taxonomy_refs:
  - divine_parent_child
  - sacred_birth
  basis: The seventh day is called holy and is linked to Leto bearing Apollo.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The birth is mentioned only as a calendrical explanation, not narrated
    in detail.
- id: motif:6
  label: Personified speech or rumor as persistent divine force
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: Talk is described as mischievous, easily raised, hard to bear, difficult
    to remove, never wholly dying away, and in some ways divine.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
  confidence: medium
  cautions: No available taxonomy reference directly matches personified rumor or
    social speech.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 678-694
  quote_or_summary: Spring sailing is marked by fig leaves; the speaker warns of danger
    at sea, advises not loading all goods into ships, compares overloading a wagon,
    and states that measure and proportion are best.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:2
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 695-705
  quote_or_summary: The speaker gives an age for bringing home a wife, recommends
    a nearby maiden, and contrasts a good wife with a bad greedy wife who harms her
    husband.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:3
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 706-714
  quote_or_summary: The speaker warns to avoid the gods' anger and gives rules about
    friends, wrongs, repayment, reconciliation, and not letting outward appearance
    shame the heart.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:4
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 715-716
  quote_or_summary: The passage warns against gaining a reputation as lavish, churlish,
    a friend of rogues, or a slanderer of good men.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:5
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 717-721
  quote_or_summary: The passage forbids taunting poverty, says poverty is sent by
    the gods, and praises a sparing, orderly tongue.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:6
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 722-723
  quote_or_summary: The passage warns against boorish behavior at a common feast with
    many guests.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:7
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 724-726
  quote_or_summary: The passage forbids libations of sparkling wine to Zeus or other
    gods after dawn with unwashed hands, saying they will not hear the prayers but
    spit them back.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:8
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 727-732
  quote_or_summary: The passage gives rules about making water in relation to the
    sun, roads, night, and enclosed courts.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:9
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 733-736
  quote_or_summary: The passage forbids exposing oneself befouled by the household
    fireside and says to beget children after a festival of the gods rather than after
    an ill-omened burial.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:10
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 737-741
  quote_or_summary: Before crossing rivers, one should pray while gazing into the
    water and wash hands; the gods are angry with one who crosses with hands unwashed
    of wickedness and bring trouble afterward.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:11
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 742-749
  quote_or_summary: The passage gives taboos involving cutting with bright steel at
    a festival, placing a ladle on a mixing-bowl, leaving a house rough-hewn for a
    crow to croak on, and using uncharmed pots.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:12
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 750-759
  quote_or_summary: The passage warns about boys or infants sitting on things not
    to be moved, a man washing with water used by a woman, mocking mysteries at a
    burning sacrifice, and defiling river mouths or springs.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:13
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 760-763
  quote_or_summary: The passage describes Talk as mischievous, easily raised, hard
    to bear, hard to remove, persistent when many voice her, and in some ways divine.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:14
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 765-769
  quote_or_summary: The passage instructs marking days from Zeus, telling slaves of
    them, treating the thirtieth day as best for reviewing work and supplies, and
    calls these days from all-wise Zeus.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:15
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 770-779
  quote_or_summary: The first, fourth, and seventh days are holy; the seventh is linked
    to Leto bearing Apollo. The eighth, ninth, eleventh, and twelfth are good for
    work, and the twelfth is linked to spider spinning, gathering, and loom work.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:16
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 780-781
  quote_or_summary: The thirteenth day of the waxing month should be avoided for beginning
    to sow but is best for setting plants.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
confidence:
  extraction: high
  motif_candidates: medium
  comparison_claims: uncertain
  notes: The passage is mostly didactic and prescriptive rather than narrative; motif
    candidates are therefore broad and should be reviewed for taxonomy fit. No comparison
    claims were added because the passage itself does not make an explicit comparative
    claim.
reviewer_status:
  status: needs_review
  reviewer: ''
  reviewed_at: ''
  notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
  Used only supplied passage text and metadata. Taxonomy references were limited to the provided motif families and symbols.
  batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
  custom_id=motif_extract:greek-hesiod-homeric-hymns-evelyn-white-gutenberg__l2169-l2282
  passage_sha256=cb34c11f7e743294552b287b1c353f68a11506f8bfe7af94cebaee316982c664