Comparative mythology corpus

batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l14942-l15074

batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l14942-l15074

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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg-l14942-l15074
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
passage_locator:
  label: PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. /
    PREFACE; lines 14942-15074
  start: '14942'
  end: '15074'
  translation: The Koran (Al-Qur'an), Rodwell translation
  notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
    human review required.
canonical_text:
  quote: ''
  summary: The passage recounts warnings about resurrection and accountability; examples
    of Noah, Abraham, Lot, Shoaib, Moses, and destroyed peoples; divine rescue of
    selected righteous figures; punishment of rejecting communities; a simile of false
    guardians as a spider's frail house; and instructions concerning recitation, prayer,
    and respectful dispute with the People of the Book.
  language: English
  quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
  text: People are said to bear their own burdens and additional burdens, and to be
    questioned on the day of Resurrection about false devices.
  category: attribute
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: obs:2
  text: Noah is sent to his people, remains among them for a long span, and a flood
    overtakes them for wrongful conduct.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: obs:3
  text: Noah and those in the vessel are rescued, and the event is made a sign to
    all people.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: obs:4
  text: Abraham exhorts his people to worship God, fear Him, abandon idols, seek supplies
    from God, and expect return to Him.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: obs:5
  text: God is described as bringing forth creation, causing it to return, and causing
    created beings to be born again with a second birth.
  category: attribute
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: obs:6
  text: Abraham's people respond by proposing to slay or burn him, but God saves him
    from the fire.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: obs:7
  text: Abraham says idols have served as a bond of union in this life but that their
    worshippers will deny and curse one another on the day of resurrection, with fire
    as their abode.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: obs:8
  text: Lot believes Abraham and later warns his own people against acts described
    as filthiness, highway attack, and public crime.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
  - ev:5
- id: obs:9
  text: Messengers announce destruction for a city of evil-doers and the rescue of
    Lot and his family except his wife, who will linger.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: obs:10
  text: Vengeance from Heaven is announced against the city, and what remains of it
    is called a clear sign for people of understanding.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: obs:11
  text: Shoaib warns Madian to worship God, expect the latter day, and avoid harmful
    excess; they reject him and are struck by an earthquake.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: obs:12
  text: Ad, Themoud, Corah, Pharaoh, Haman, and others are named among those seized
    in sin by varied punishments including wind, a terrible cry, cleaving earth, and
    drowning.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: obs:13
  text: Those who take guardians instead of God are likened to a spider building a
    house, which is called the frailest of houses.
  category: object
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
- id: obs:14
  text: The passage instructs recitation of the revealed Book, prayer, remembrance
    of God, and kindly dispute with the People of the Book while affirming one God.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: obs:15
  text: The addressee is said not to have recited or transcribed any earlier book
    of revelation before the Koran was sent down.
  category: attribute
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
figures:
- id: fig:1
  name_or_label: God
  description: The divine agent who creates, resurrects, chastises, has mercy, saves,
    sends messengers, reveals the Book, and judges wrongdoing.
  role_refs:
  - role:1
  - role:2
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:2
  - ev:3
  - ev:4
  - ev:6
  - ev:8
  - ev:9
  - ev:11
  - ev:12
- id: fig:2
  name_or_label: Noah
  description: Messenger sent to his people and rescued with those in the vessel.
  role_refs:
  - role:3
  - role:5
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: fig:3
  name_or_label: Noah's people
  description: People among whom Noah tarried and whom the flood overtook in wrongful
    doings.
  role_refs:
  - role:4
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: fig:4
  name_or_label: Abraham
  description: Figure who exhorts his people to worship God, is threatened with death
    or burning, is saved from fire, and receives posterity including Isaac and Jacob.
  role_refs:
  - role:3
  - role:5
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:4
- id: fig:5
  name_or_label: Abraham's people
  description: People addressed by Abraham; they worship idols and answer by proposing
    to slay or burn him.
  role_refs:
  - role:4
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:4
- id: fig:6
  name_or_label: Lot
  description: Believes Abraham, later warns his own people, is present in the doomed
    city, and is promised rescue.
  role_refs:
  - role:3
  - role:5
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
  - ev:5
  - ev:6
- id: fig:7
  name_or_label: Lot's people / in-dwellers of the city
  description: People accused by Lot of filthiness, highway attack, and public crime;
    described by messengers as evil-doers destined for destruction.
  role_refs:
  - role:4
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
  - ev:6
  - ev:7
- id: fig:8
  name_or_label: Messengers to Abraham and Lot
  description: Messengers who bring tidings of a son to Abraham and announce the destruction
    of the city and the rescue of Lot's family except his wife.
  role_refs:
  - role:6
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
  - ev:7
- id: fig:9
  name_or_label: Lot's wife
  description: Member of Lot's family excepted from the promised rescue and described
    as one who will linger.
  role_refs:
  - role:7
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: fig:10
  name_or_label: Shoaib
  description: Brother sent to Madian who commands worship of God and warns against
    harmful excess.
  role_refs:
  - role:3
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: fig:11
  name_or_label: People of Madian
  description: People who treat Shoaib as an impostor and are assailed by an earthquake.
  role_refs:
  - role:4
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: fig:12
  name_or_label: Ad and Themoud
  description: Destroyed peoples whose ruined dwellings are cited as plain evidence.
  role_refs:
  - role:4
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: fig:13
  name_or_label: Satan
  description: Figure said to make people's works seem fair and to draw them from
    the right path.
  role_refs:
  - role:8
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: fig:14
  name_or_label: Moses
  description: Figure who comes with proofs of his mission to Corah, Pharaoh, and
    Haman.
  role_refs:
  - role:3
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: fig:15
  name_or_label: Corah, Pharaoh, and Haman
  description: Figures who receive Moses with proofs, behave proudly on earth, and
    cannot outstrip God.
  role_refs:
  - role:4
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: fig:16
  name_or_label: People of the Book
  description: Group with whom dispute is to be conducted kindly, except wrongdoers,
    and whose God is affirmed as one with the believers' God.
  role_refs:
  - role:9
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: fig:17
  name_or_label: Spider
  description: Creature in the simile that builds a house described as the frailest
    of houses.
  role_refs:
  - role:10
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
roles:
- id: role:1
  label: creator and reviver
  assigned_to:
  - fig:1
  basis: The passage says God brings forth creation, causes it to return, and causes
    a second birth.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: role:2
  label: divine judge and rescuer
  assigned_to:
  - fig:1
  basis: God questions on Resurrection, chastises or has mercy, rescues Noah and Abraham,
    and seizes sinners.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:2
  - ev:4
  - ev:9
- id: role:3
  label: sent warner or messenger
  assigned_to:
  - fig:2
  - fig:4
  - fig:6
  - fig:10
  - fig:14
  basis: These figures preach, warn, or come with proofs to their peoples.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:3
  - ev:5
  - ev:8
  - ev:9
- id: role:4
  label: rejecting or wrongdoing community/opponents
  assigned_to:
  - fig:3
  - fig:5
  - fig:7
  - fig:11
  - fig:12
  - fig:15
  basis: The passage describes these groups or opponents as rejecting, doing wrong,
    behaving proudly, or being seized in sin.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:4
  - ev:5
  - ev:8
  - ev:9
- id: role:5
  label: rescued righteous figure
  assigned_to:
  - fig:2
  - fig:4
  - fig:6
  basis: Noah is rescued in the vessel; Abraham is saved from fire; Lot is promised
    rescue from the doomed city.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:4
  - ev:6
- id: role:6
  label: announcing messengers
  assigned_to:
  - fig:8
  basis: They announce a son to Abraham and the destruction of the city, with rescue
    for Lot's household except his wife.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: role:7
  label: excluded family member who lingers
  assigned_to:
  - fig:9
  basis: Lot's wife is excepted from rescue and said to be of those who linger.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: role:8
  label: misleader from the right path
  assigned_to:
  - fig:13
  basis: Satan is said to make works fair-seeming and draw people from the right path.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: role:9
  label: scriptural interlocutors
  assigned_to:
  - fig:16
  basis: The passage instructs believers how to dispute with the People of the Book
    and affirm shared worship of one God.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: role:10
  label: simile figure
  assigned_to:
  - fig:17
  basis: The spider appears in a likeness for those who take guardians instead of
    God.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
symbols:
- id: sym:1
  label: vessel of rescue
  literal_form: vessel containing Noah and those rescued with him
  associated_figures:
  - fig:2
  taxonomy_refs:
  - ark_vessel
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: sym:2
  label: flood
  literal_form: flood overtaking Noah's people
  associated_figures:
  - fig:2
  - fig:3
  taxonomy_refs:
  - flood_and_renewal
  - water
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: sym:3
  label: fire
  literal_form: fire from which Abraham is saved; fire named as the abode of idol-worshippers
    in judgment
  associated_figures:
  - fig:4
  - fig:5
  taxonomy_refs:
  - fire
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: sym:4
  label: idols
  literal_form: idols worshipped beside God and described as a bond of union in present
    life
  associated_figures:
  - fig:5
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:4
- id: sym:5
  label: second birth
  literal_form: created beings caused to be born again hereafter
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  taxonomy_refs:
  - resurrection
  - death_rebirth
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: sym:6
  label: doomed city
  literal_form: city whose in-dwellers are evil-doers and upon which vengeance from
    Heaven is to be brought down
  associated_figures:
  - fig:6
  - fig:7
  - fig:8
  - fig:9
  taxonomy_refs:
  - divine_judgment
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
  - ev:7
- id: sym:7
  label: ruined dwellings
  literal_form: ruins or dwellings left after destruction of Ad, Themoud, and others
  associated_figures:
  - fig:12
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: sym:8
  label: earthquake
  literal_form: earthquake that assails the people of Madian
  associated_figures:
  - fig:10
  - fig:11
  taxonomy_refs:
  - divine_judgment
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: sym:9
  label: stone-charged wind, terrible cry, cleft earth, and drowning
  literal_form: varied punishments by wind, cry, earth opening, and water
  associated_figures:
  - fig:12
  - fig:15
  taxonomy_refs:
  - divine_judgment
  - water
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: sym:10
  label: spider house
  literal_form: spider's house described as frailest of all houses
  associated_figures:
  - fig:17
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
- id: sym:11
  label: revealed Book
  literal_form: Book of the Koran and Book sent down to earlier recipients
  associated_figures:
  - fig:16
  taxonomy_refs:
  - wisdom
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
  - ev:12
scenes:
- id: scene:1
  label: Resurrection accountability
  summary: The passage states that people will bear burdens and be questioned on the
    day of Resurrection about false devices.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  symbol_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: scene:2
  label: Noah, flood, and vessel rescue
  summary: Noah is sent to his people; a flood overtakes them; Noah and those in the
    vessel are rescued and made a sign.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  - fig:3
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:1
  - sym:2
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: scene:3
  label: Abraham's monotheistic warning and teaching on return
  summary: Abraham calls his people from idols to worship God, and the passage describes
    creation, return, second birth, chastisement, mercy, and return to God.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:4
  - fig:5
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:4
  - sym:5
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: scene:4
  label: Abraham saved from fire and idolatrous union judged
  summary: Abraham's people propose killing or burning him; God saves him from fire;
    Abraham warns that idol-based union will become mutual denial and cursing on Resurrection.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:4
  - fig:5
  - fig:6
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:3
  - sym:4
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: scene:5
  label: Lot, the messengers, and the doomed city
  summary: Lot warns his people; messengers announce the city's destruction and promise
    to save Lot and his family except his wife; vengeance from Heaven is announced.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:6
  - fig:7
  - fig:8
  - fig:9
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:6
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
  - ev:6
  - ev:7
- id: scene:6
  label: Shoaib, Madian, and other destroyed opponents
  summary: Shoaib's people reject him and are killed by an earthquake; Ad, Themoud,
    and opponents of Moses are cited among those seized in sin by different punishments.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:10
  - fig:11
  - fig:12
  - fig:13
  - fig:14
  - fig:15
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:7
  - sym:8
  - sym:9
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
  - ev:9
- id: scene:7
  label: Spider-house simile
  summary: The passage compares those who take guardians besides God to a spider building
    a house, called the frailest house.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:17
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:10
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
- id: scene:8
  label: Recitation, prayer, and scriptural address
  summary: The passage commands recitation, prayer, remembrance, and kindly dispute
    with the People of the Book; it also states that the Koran has been sent down
    and was not previously recited or transcribed by the addressee.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:16
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:11
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
  - ev:12
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
  label: Resurrection and weighing of moral burdens
  taxonomy_refs:
  - resurrection
  - divine_judgment
  basis: The passage explicitly links burdens, questioning, return to God, second
    birth, chastisement, mercy, and despair or punishment for those who deny meeting
    God.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:3
  confidence: high
  cautions: The passage uses moral and eschatological language; no detailed afterlife
    geography is given.
- id: motif:2
  label: Flood and vessel rescue of a righteous remnant
  taxonomy_refs:
  - flood_and_renewal
  - ark_vessel
  basis: Noah's people are overtaken by a flood, while Noah and those in the vessel
    are rescued and made a sign.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  confidence: high
  cautions: The excerpt does not describe vessel construction or post-flood renewal
    details.
- id: motif:3
  label: Prophet rejected by people, followed by divine punishment
  taxonomy_refs:
  - divine_judgment
  basis: Noah, Abraham, Lot, Shoaib, and Moses-related opponents are presented in
    repeated patterns of warning, rejection or wrongdoing, and divine response.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:4
  - ev:5
  - ev:8
  - ev:9
  confidence: high
  cautions: The passage compresses several traditions and does not narrate each in
    equal detail.
- id: motif:4
  label: Righteous figure delivered from fire
  taxonomy_refs:
  - fire
  - divine_judgment
  basis: Abraham's people propose to burn him, but God saves him from the fire, and
    the event is called a sign for believers.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
  confidence: high
  cautions: The passage gives no details about the fire's origin or manner of deliverance.
- id: motif:5
  label: Doomed city with household rescue and excluded wife
  taxonomy_refs:
  - divine_judgment
  basis: Messengers announce destruction for a city, promise rescue for Lot and his
    family, and specifically except his wife as one who will linger.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
  - ev:7
  confidence: high
  cautions: The city is not named in the excerpt, and the wife’s reason for exclusion
    is not explained here.
- id: motif:6
  label: Ruins as signs of past judgment
  taxonomy_refs:
  - divine_judgment
  - wisdom
  basis: The remnants of Lot's city and the ruined dwellings of Ad and Themoud are
    presented as signs or plain evidence for understanding people.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  - ev:9
  confidence: high
  cautions: The passage does not describe archaeological features beyond remaining
    signs or ruins.
- id: motif:7
  label: False refuge as frail house
  taxonomy_refs:
  - wisdom
  basis: The simile of the spider's frail house is used for those who take guardians
    other than God, and is framed as a similitude understood by the wise.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
  confidence: high
  cautions: The taxonomy reference is broad; the spider-house image itself is not
    listed as a supplied taxonomy item.
- id: motif:8
  label: Revealed Book, prayer, and remembrance as guidance
  taxonomy_refs:
  - wisdom
  basis: The passage directs recitation of the revealed Book, prayer that restrains
    blameworthy conduct, and remembrance of God.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
  - ev:12
  confidence: medium
  cautions: This is more doctrinal-instructional than narrative-mythic; included because
    the passage frames revelation and remembrance as guidance.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
  claim: 'Within the passage, several narratives share the same functional pattern:
    a messenger warns a people, the people reject or persist in wrongdoing, and divine
    judgment follows while selected righteous figures may be rescued.'
  claim_level: same_function
  target: Internal recurring prophetic warning and judgment pattern across Noah, Abraham,
    Lot, Shoaib, and Moses-related examples
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:4
  - ev:5
  - ev:6
  - ev:8
  - ev:9
  counter_evidence_refs: []
  confidence: high
  limitations: This is an internal comparison across examples in the same passage,
    not a claim about historical contact or external parallels.
- id: claim:2
  claim: The rescues of Noah in the vessel and Lot with his family function similarly
    as preservation of selected righteous persons amid destruction of a wrongdoing
    community.
  claim_level: same_function
  target: Righteous remnant rescue within divine judgment scenes
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:6
  - ev:7
  counter_evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
  confidence: medium
  limitations: Lot's wife is explicitly excepted from the rescue, and the two scenes
    use different destructive agents and narrative details.
- id: claim:3
  claim: 'The spider-house simile and the ruined-dwellings notices both function as
    didactic signs: material images are used to teach about false security and the
    consequences of wrongdoing.'
  claim_level: same_function
  target: Didactic signs and similitudes within the passage
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  - ev:9
  - ev:10
  counter_evidence_refs: []
  confidence: medium
  limitations: 'The images differ in form: one is a stated similitude, while the other
    refers to remnants or ruins left after judgment.'
evidence:
- id: ev:1
  type: summary
  locator: lines 14942-15074; opening resurrection-burden statement
  quote_or_summary: People will bear burdens and be questioned on the day of Resurrection
    about false devices.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
  rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation; summarized.
- id: ev:2
  type: summary
  locator: lines 14942-15074; Noah paragraphs
  quote_or_summary: Noah is sent to his people; after a long tarrying, the flood overtakes
    them, while Noah and those in the vessel are rescued and made a sign.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
  rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation; summarized.
- id: ev:3
  type: summary
  locator: lines 14942-15074; Abraham exhortation and creation-return paragraphs
  quote_or_summary: Abraham tells his people to worship God and abandon idols; the
    passage says God brings forth creation, causes return, and will cause created
    beings to be born again with a second birth.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
  rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation; summarized.
- id: ev:4
  type: summary
  locator: lines 14942-15074; Abraham threatened and saved from fire
  quote_or_summary: Abraham's people answer, 'Slay him or burn him'; God saves him
    from fire; Abraham warns that idol-based union will become denial and cursing
    on Resurrection, and Lot believes him.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
  rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation; contains brief
    public-domain quotation.
- id: ev:5
  type: summary
  locator: lines 14942-15074; Lot's warning to his people
  quote_or_summary: Lot accuses his people of unprecedented filthiness, approaching
    men, highway attack, and crime in assemblies; they challenge him to bring God's
    chastisement.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
  rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation; summarized.
- id: ev:6
  type: summary
  locator: lines 14942-15074; messengers to Abraham and Lot
  quote_or_summary: Messengers tell Abraham they will destroy the city of evil-doers;
    they say Lot and his family will be saved except his wife, who will linger.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
  rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation; summarized.
- id: ev:7
  type: summary
  locator: lines 14942-15074; vengeance from Heaven and remaining sign
  quote_or_summary: The messengers announce vengeance from Heaven upon the city for
    excesses, and the remaining trace is called a clear sign for people of understanding.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
  rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation; summarized.
- id: ev:8
  type: summary
  locator: lines 14942-15074; Shoaib and Madian
  quote_or_summary: Shoaib tells Madian to worship God, expect the latter day, and
    avoid harmful excess; they treat him as an impostor and an earthquake leaves them
    prostrate and dead.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
  rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation; summarized.
- id: ev:9
  type: summary
  locator: lines 14942-15074; Ad, Themoud, Corah, Pharaoh, Haman, and varied punishments
  quote_or_summary: Ad and Themoud are destroyed, Satan misleads them, Moses comes
    with proofs to Corah, Pharaoh, and Haman, and sinners are seized by wind, cry,
    cleft earth, or drowning.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
  rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation; summarized.
- id: ev:10
  type: quote
  locator: lines 14942-15074; spider similitude
  quote_or_summary: '"The likeness for those who take to themselves guardians instead
    of God is the likeness of the SPIDER who buildeth her a house."'
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
  rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation; short excerpt.
- id: ev:11
  type: summary
  locator: lines 14942-15074; recitation, prayer, and People of the Book
  quote_or_summary: The passage commands recitation of the revealed Book, prayer,
    remembrance of God, and kindly dispute with the People of the Book while affirming
    one God.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
  rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation; summarized.
- id: ev:12
  type: summary
  locator: lines 14942-15074; sending down of the Koran and prior non-recitation
  quote_or_summary: The Koran is said to have been sent down; the addressee had not
    previously recited or transcribed a book of revelation, so doubters lack that
    ground for suspicion.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-rodwell.md
  rights_note: Public domain Project Gutenberg/Rodwell translation; summarized.
confidence:
  extraction: high
  motif_candidates: medium
  comparison_claims: medium
  notes: The passage is clear in its narrative and doctrinal elements. Motif taxonomy
    mapping is strongest for resurrection, flood/vessel rescue, fire, and divine judgment;
    broader wisdom mappings require review.
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: '2026-04-29'
notes: |-
  Only the supplied passage and metadata were used. Comparison claims are limited to internal functional similarities explicitly supported by the passage.
  batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
  custom_id=motif_extract:islamic-koran-rodwell-gutenberg__l14942-l15074
  passage_sha256=5112501c99bd084db1e3313c61dd2e5ea08cc0bdc6929b73952bc6cac2795de6