batch.motif.sufi-jami-persian-mystics-davis-gutenberg-l864-l891
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-jami-persian-mystics-davis-gutenberg-l864-l891
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-jami-davis.md
passage_locator:
label: EDITORIAL NOTE / INTRODUCTION / THE BABY DARLING / LOVE'S EARTHLY WAY; lines
864-891
start: '864'
end: '891'
translation: 'The Persian Mystics: Jámí'
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: Salámán’s heart turns toward Absál. Absál watches for an opportunity, enters
his chamber, falls at his feet, and is raised and embraced by him. The two share
mutual desire and rejoice together over an extended period, believing their pleasure
will not end. Personified Heaven then declares that such sweet unions are not
licensed to last, mixing bliss with sunset and ending it by sunrise.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Salámán’s heart turns toward Absál, and Love and Desire are described as intensifying.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: Absál watches for a suitable hour and enters Salámán’s chamber.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Absál falls at Salámán’s feet with her face laid beneath.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Salámán raises Absál in his arms and holds her while she trembles.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: The passage describes mutual desire through images of lips, fount, and wine.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: Their rejoicing continues from days to a moon and then to a year, while they
believe the pleasure will not end.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: Personified Heaven speaks from ambush and says the continuation of such bliss
is not allowed by its license.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: Heaven describes making sweet societies in the morning and breaking them before
nightfall, and mixing bliss with the setting and rising sun.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Salámán
description: A princely figure whose heart turns toward Absál and who raises and
embraces her.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Absál
description: A woman who enters Salámán’s chamber, falls at his feet, and joins
him in mutual desire.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Heaven
description: A personified cosmic speaker that declares the lovers’ lasting bliss
is not permitted.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Love
description: Personified as old Love putting forth afresh when Salámán’s heart turns
to Absál.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Desire
description: Personified as doubling his bond after Salámán’s heart turns to Absál.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
roles:
- id: role:1
label: beloved prince
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Salámán is associated with princely courtesies and is the object of Absál’s
approach.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:2
label: desiring lover
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Absál seeks the hour to enter Salámán’s chamber and join him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:3
label: cosmic limiter of pleasure
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Heaven states that ongoing bliss is not permitted and describes ending sweet
unions.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:4
label: personified passion
assigned_to:
- fig:4
- fig:5
basis: Love and Desire are named as active forces intensifying the bond.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: star in the heavens
literal_form: Absál’s star is described as happy in the heavens.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: mansion of her moon
literal_form: Absál seeks to creep into the mansion of her moon, an image linked
to Salámán’s chamber.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: fount and wine of desire
literal_form: The lovers’ lips are described through fount and inexhaustible wine
imagery.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:4
label: setting and rising sun
literal_form: Heaven speaks of bliss mixed with the setting sun and ended with his
rising.
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Love and desire intensify
summary: Salámán turns toward Absál, and personified Love and Desire are described
as renewed and strengthened.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Absál enters Salámán’s chamber
summary: Absál waits for the right hour, enters Salámán’s chamber, and falls at
his feet.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Mutual embrace and prolonged pleasure
summary: Salámán raises and embraces Absál; the passage describes mutual desire
and the lovers’ rejoicing over an extended span.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:4
label: Heaven limits the lovers’ bliss
summary: Personified Heaven declares that such sweet unions are not permitted to
last and associates their ending with nightfall and sunrise.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: secret entrance to the beloved’s chamber
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Absál waits for an hour and enters Salámán’s chamber to approach him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: high
cautions: This is a local narrative pattern in the passage; no broader taxonomy
reference is explicitly established.
- id: motif:2
label: mutual lovers’ union imagined as inexhaustible sweetness
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The lovers’ mutual desire is described through lips, fount, and wine that
does not fail.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: high
cautions: The passage frames the union as earthly love; no divine union should be
inferred from this passage alone.
- id: motif:3
label: cosmic decree of impermanent pleasure
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Heaven declares that the lovers’ ongoing bliss is not licensed and describes
sweet societies ending by nightfall or sunrise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: The exact mechanism of Heaven’s intervention is not narrated here beyond
the speech.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 864-869
quote_or_summary: Salámán’s heart turns to Absál; her star is happy in the heavens;
old Love renews itself and Desire doubles his bond.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-jami-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 870-876
quote_or_summary: Absál watches for an hour, enters Salámán’s chamber, runs to him,
and falls like a shadow at his feet with her face beneath.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-jami-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 876-882
quote_or_summary: Salámán raises Absál in his arms, holds her trembling, and their
mutual desire is figured through lips, a fount, and wine that does not fail.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-jami-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 883-887
quote_or_summary: Their shared rejoicing extends from day to day, then to a moon
and a year, while they think their pleasure will never end.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-jami-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: quote
locator: lines 888-890
quote_or_summary: "“But rolling Heaven whisper'd from his ambush, / ‘So in my license
is it not set down.’”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-jami-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; brief quotation.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 890-891
quote_or_summary: Heaven laments the sweet societies it makes in the morning and
breaks before nightfall, and the bliss mixed with sunset and ended at sunrise.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-jami-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: Literal extraction is straightforward. Motif labels are descriptive and passage-local;
no external comparison claims are made.
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: |-
No available taxonomy motif family or symbol reference was applied because the passage presents earthly erotic union and cosmic impermanence without explicitly matching the supplied controlled terms.
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