batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l10132-l10368
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source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
passage_locator:
label: E.H. WHINFIELD, M.A. / INTRODUCTION / E.H. WHINFIELD / QUATRAINS OF OMAR
KHAYYAM; lines 10132-10368
start: '10132'
end: '10368'
translation: The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: A sequence of quatrains reflects on the soul's heavenly origin, embodiment,
mortality, worldly illusion, oppression, divine estrangement, pilgrimage toward
rest and renewal, love, seasonal change, wine, hypocrisy, guidance, destiny, elemental
composition, and the inevitability of death. Editorial notes identify Faridun
and Kai Khosrau as ancient Persian kings, Murtaza as Ali the celestial cupbearer,
and compare one augury scene to the sortes Virgilianae.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The soul is addressed as able, if freed from flesh and bone, to soar as a
sprite about a heavenly throne; the passage says it left a starry home to dwell
as an alien on earth.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: A potter is told to stay his hand because he is putting mortal human material
to base use and mangling parts associated with Faridun and Kai Khosrau on a wheel.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The speaker warns not to crave apparently real but vain dainties from the
world's kitchen, and says renounced loss will become gain.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The passage warns against plotting at night to harm fellows, relying on wealth
and might, and forgetting that thieves, death, or fortune may take them away.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: The speaker says the soul was once the cherished bride of a divine addressee
and asks why she was divorced from that addressee's side and doomed to remain
in the world.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: The speakers are described as poor pilgrims seeking a place of rest from pain,
hoping after many thousand wintry years to renew life like flowers and bloom again.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: While seeking an augury in love's book, an ardent youth speaks in ecstasy
about a sweetheart beautiful as the moon; the note compares the scene to the sortes
Virgilianae.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: Winter is said to be past and spring begun, while life's book will soon be
finished; a sage says life is a rank poison with no antidote except grape-juice.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: A beloved who may be a reverend Molla is urged to quit saintly display and
feigned austerity, drink wine served by Murtaza, and sport with Houris beneath
a shady tree.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:10
text: A cup dashed against a stone cries out in agony that the speaker too will
soon be overthrown like it.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:11
text: The speaker rejects hypocrisy, asks the cupbearer for wine, and offers the
hooded cowl and prayer-mat as pledges for wine.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:12
text: A divine or enduring guide is asked to open the door and guide the way; human-born
directors are said not to direct the speaker.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:13
text: The passage says humans go empty as they came, and that whether or not one
drinks, death comes all the same.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:14
text: The speaker advises not to reason about the five and the four, glossed as
the five senses and four elements, and states that humans are earth and air.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: obs:15
text: A person wearing fleshy livery is told not to step beyond destiny's bounds,
to bear up against even Rustum-like foes, and to crave no boon from friends like
Hatim Tai.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: obs:16
text: Wine, minstrel boys, lute, harp, ruby lips, and other cherished enjoyments
are called redundancies; the listener is said to be nothing until renouncing the
world's delusive joys.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: obs:17
text: The passage says one's origin and end are both in earth, though the hearer
is presently above earth and not below it.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: soul
description: The soul addressed as having a starry home, dwelling as an alien on
earth, and once being a cherished bride.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: divine addressee
description: The capitalized addressee from whose side the soul was divorced and
who is later invoked as enduring guide and opener of the door.
role_refs:
- role:3
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:13
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: potter
description: A potter using a wheel and handling man's mortal part with ruthless
art.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Faridun and Kai Khosrau
description: Ancient kings of Persia named in the potter quatrain; the note says
Kai Khosrau is usually identified with Cyrus.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: poor pilgrims
description: A collective 'we' seeking a place of rest from pain after many wintry
years.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: ardent youth
description: A youth who cries out in ecstasy during the speaker's augury in love's
book.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: sweetheart beauteous as the moon
description: The beloved described by the ardent youth as beautiful as the moon.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Murtaza
description: Identified in the note as Ali, the celestial cupbearer, who purveys
wine.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Houris
description: Figures with whom the beloved is urged to sport beneath a shady tree.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: speaking cup
description: A cup dashed against a stone that cries out in agony and predicts the
speaker's overthrow.
role_refs:
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: cupbearer
description: A figure asked by the speaker to bring wine.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: sage
description: The figure quoted as saying life is poison and grape-juice its antidote.
role_refs:
- role:13
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:13
name_or_label: Rustum and Hatim Tai
description: 'Named exemplary figures: Rustum as a measure of formidable foes and
Hatim Tai as a measure of generous friends.'
role_refs:
- role:14
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
roles:
- id: role:1
label: heavenly exile
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The soul is said to have left a starry home and to dwell as an alien on earth.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: estranged bride
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The soul is described as once the cherished bride of the divine addressee
and now divorced from that side.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:3
label: divine spouse or beloved addressee
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The speaker asks why the divine addressee divorced the soul from the addressee's
side.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:4
label: enduring guide and opener
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The addressee is invoked to open the door and guide the way, unlike human
directors.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: role:5
label: mortal clay worker
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The potter handles man's mortal part on a wheel.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:6
label: royal mortal exemplars
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Faridun and Kai Khosrau are ancient Persian kings whose fingers and heart
are imagined in the potter's clay.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:7
label: pilgrims seeking rest and renewal
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The collective speakers call themselves poor pilgrims seeking rest and renewed
life.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:8
label: ecstatic speaker of love augury
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The youth cries out in ecstasy while the speaker seeks an augury in love's
book.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:9
label: moonlike beloved
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The sweetheart is described as beauteous as the moon.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:10
label: wine giver
assigned_to:
- fig:8
- fig:11
basis: Murtaza purveys wine, and the cupbearer is asked to bring wine.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:11
- id: role:11
label: celestial companions
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Houris appear in the exhortation to sport beneath a shady tree.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:12
label: memento mori speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: The broken cup tells the speaker that he too will soon be overthrown.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:13
label: wisdom speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:12
basis: The sage provides a maxim about life as poison and grape-juice as antidote.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:14
label: exemplary heroic and generous names
assigned_to:
- fig:13
basis: Rustum and Hatim Tai are used as examples of foes and friends in advice about
destiny.
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: flesh and bone
literal_form: The bodily covering the soul might doff.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: heavenly throne and starry home
literal_form: A heavenly throne and starry home contrasted with the earthly zone.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:3
label: potter's wheel
literal_form: The potter's cruel wheel mangling mortal parts.
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:4
label: world's kitchen
literal_form: A kitchen of the world offering seeming dainties that are really vain.
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:5
label: bride and divorce
literal_form: The soul as cherished bride divorced from the divine side.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:6
label: winter, flowers, and blooming again
literal_form: Many thousand wintry years followed by renewed life like flowers blooming
again.
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:7
label: love's book
literal_form: A book used for seeking an augury in love.
associated_figures:
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:8
label: life's book
literal_form: Pages of life's book that will soon be done.
associated_figures:
- fig:12
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:9
label: wine or grape-juice
literal_form: Wine or grape-juice presented as drink, antidote, and object requested
from cupbearers.
associated_figures:
- fig:8
- fig:11
- fig:12
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:11
- id: sym:10
label: shady tree
literal_form: A tree beneath which the beloved is urged to sport with Houris.
associated_figures:
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:11
label: speaking broken cup
literal_form: A cup dashed on stone that speaks in agony.
associated_figures:
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: sym:12
label: hooded cowl and prayer-mat
literal_form: Religious objects offered in pawn for wine.
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: sym:13
label: door and way
literal_form: A door to be opened and a way to be guided by the enduring guide.
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: sym:14
label: five senses and four elements
literal_form: The five and the four, glossed as five senses and four elements.
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: sym:15
label: earth and air
literal_form: Humans described as earth and air, and as originating and ending in
earth.
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:17
- id: sym:16
label: fleshy livery
literal_form: The bodily condition described as fleshy livery worn under destiny.
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Soul as heavenly alien
summary: The soul is addressed as a being from a starry home that could rise toward
the heavenly throne if freed from flesh and bone.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Potter handles royal mortal remains
summary: A potter is halted because his wheel is imagined as mangling mortal parts
belonging to ancient Persian kings.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Renunciation of worldly gain and harm
summary: The passage warns against craving the world's vain dainties, harming others
by night, and relying on wealth or power.
figure_refs: []
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:4
label: Soul divorced from divine side
summary: The soul is described as a former cherished bride now separated from the
divine addressee and confined to the world.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:5
label: Pilgrims hope for floral renewal
summary: Poor pilgrims wish for rest from pain and for life renewed like flowers
after long wintry ages.
figure_refs:
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:6
label: Augury from love's book
summary: The speaker seeks an augury in love's book, and an ecstatic youth speaks
of a moonlike sweetheart; the editor compares the practice to sortes Virgilianae.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:7
label: Seasonal turn and wine antidote
summary: Winter gives way to spring as life's book nears completion, and a sage
calls grape-juice the only antidote to life.
figure_refs:
- fig:12
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
- sym:8
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: scene:8
label: Wine against feigned austerity
summary: A religiously marked beloved is urged to abandon show, drink wine served
by Murtaza, and join Houris beneath a shady tree.
figure_refs:
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:9
- sym:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: scene:9
label: Broken cup warns of mortality
summary: After being dashed against a stone, a cup speaks and warns the speaker
that he too will soon be overthrown.
figure_refs:
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: scene:10
label: Religious objects pawned for wine
summary: The speaker, weary of hypocrisy, requests wine from a cupbearer and offers
a cowl and prayer-mat as pledges.
figure_refs:
- fig:11
symbol_refs:
- sym:9
- sym:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: scene:11
label: Appeal to enduring guide
summary: The speaker asks an enduring guide to open the door and guide the way,
rejecting human-born directors.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:13
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: scene:12
label: Elemental mortality and destiny
summary: The passage describes humans as earth and air, bound by destiny while in
fleshy livery, and destined to return to earth.
figure_refs:
- fig:13
symbol_refs:
- sym:14
- sym:15
- sym:16
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:15
- ev:17
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Soul's heavenly origin and earthly exile
taxonomy_refs:
- ascent
- departure
- mystical_quest
basis: The soul is described as coming from a starry home, dwelling as an alien
on earth, and potentially soaring about the heavenly throne if freed from flesh
and bone.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: high
cautions: The passage is lyric and doctrinal rather than a plotted journey narrative.
- id: motif:2
label: Divine beloved and estranged soul-bride
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
- sacred_marriage
basis: The soul says it was once the cherished bride of the divine addressee and
asks why it has been divorced and made to abide in the world.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The language is metaphorical; no full marriage narrative is given.
- id: motif:3
label: Rest after pilgrimage and renewal like flowers
taxonomy_refs:
- death_rebirth
- resurrection
- seasonal_cycle
basis: Poor pilgrims seek rest from pain and hope after many wintry years to renew
life like flowers and bloom again.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: The passage expresses a wish rather than narrating an achieved resurrection.
- id: motif:4
label: Mortal body as clay or reused matter
taxonomy_refs:
- death_rebirth
basis: The potter's wheel is imagined as using man's mortal part, including parts
of ancient kings, and other quatrains say origin and end are in earth.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:17
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage emphasizes mortality and material transformation more than
a full rebirth cycle.
- id: motif:5
label: Worldly illusion and renunciation
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
- mystical_quest
basis: The passage warns against vain dainties of the world's kitchen, wealth, might,
delusive joys, and cherished redundancies, urging renunciation.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:16
confidence: high
cautions: Wine imagery complicates a simple ascetic reading.
- id: motif:6
label: Wine as antidote and anti-hypocrisy sign
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: Wine or grape-juice is called the antidote to life, is requested from cupbearers,
and is preferred over religious display, cowl, and prayer-mat.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:11
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage itself does not explicitly define wine as a mystical symbol;
it may function literally and polemically in the translation.
- id: motif:7
label: Divine guide opens the way
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
basis: The speaker asks an enduring guide to open the door and guide the way, while
human-born directors fail to direct.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
confidence: medium
cautions: The destination beyond the door is not specified in the passage.
- id: motif:8
label: Book-based augury in love
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The speaker seeks an augury in love's book and receives an ecstatic utterance
from a youth; the editor explicitly compares this to sortes Virgilianae.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage gives only one brief divinatory episode.
- id: motif:9
label: Personified broken object as mortality warning
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: A cup broken by the speaker speaks in agony and warns that the speaker will
soon be overthrown too.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
confidence: medium
cautions: The personification occurs in a short aphoristic quatrain, not a developed
tale.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The augury in love's book is explicitly compared by the editor to the sortes
Virgilianae, suggesting a similar function of seeking guidance through a text.
claim_level: same_function
target: sortes Virgilianae
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The comparison is editorial and limited to the act of textual augury;
no historical contact or shared origin is established in the passage.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: quatrain before 436, lines 10132-10135
quote_or_summary: The soul is told that if it could doff flesh and bone it would
soar about the heavenly throne; it left a starry home to dwell as an alien on
earth.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: quatrain 437 and note 437
quote_or_summary: A potter is urged to stop using man's mortal part; the wheel is
said to mangle Faridun's fingers and Kai Khosrau's heart. The note identifies
them as ancient kings of Persia.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: quatrain 439
quote_or_summary: The passage warns not to crave the world's kitchen dainties, which
seem real but are vain; greedy worldlings consume them to their loss.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: quatrain 440 and note 440
quote_or_summary: The speaker warns not to plot by night against others or rely
on wealth and might, which thieves, death, or fortune may remove.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: quatrain 441
quote_or_summary: The soul says it was once the divine addressee's cherished bride
and asks why it has been divorced from that side and doomed to remain in the world.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: quatrain 442
quote_or_summary: Poor pilgrims wish for a place of rest from pain and after many
thousand wintry years to renew life like flowers and bloom again.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: quatrain 443 and note 443
quote_or_summary: The speaker seeks an augury in love's book; an ardent youth speaks
in ecstasy about a moonlike sweetheart. The note says to compare the sortes Virgilianae.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: quatrain 444
quote_or_summary: Winter is past and spring has begun; life's book will soon be
done; a sage says life is poison and grape-juice its only antidote.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: quatrain 445 and note 445
quote_or_summary: A beloved Molla is urged to quit saintly show and drink wine purveyed
by Murtaza; the note identifies Murtaza as Ali, the celestial cupbearer.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: quatrain 446
quote_or_summary: The speaker dashed a cup against a stone; the cup cried out that
the speaker too will soon be overthrown.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: quatrain 447
quote_or_summary: The speaker is weary of hypocrisy, asks the cupbearer for wine,
and pledges a hooded cowl and prayer-mat for wine.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: quatrain 448
quote_or_summary: The listener is told to audit himself, to see he goes empty as
he came, and that drink or no drink, death is inevitable.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: quatrain 449
quote_or_summary: The speaker asks one who procures entrance to open the door and
asks the surest guide to guide the way; human directors are rejected, while the
addressee endures.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:14
type: summary
locator: quatrain 453 and note 453
quote_or_summary: The passage says not to reason about the five or four; the note
glosses these as five senses and four elements. Humans are described as earth
and air.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:15
type: summary
locator: quatrain 455
quote_or_summary: While wearing fleshy livery, the listener is told not to step
beyond destiny, to bear up against foes like Rustum, and not crave a boon from
friends like Hatim Tai.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:16
type: summary
locator: quatrain 456 and note 456
quote_or_summary: Ruby lips, wine, minstrel boys, lute, harp, and cherished toys
are called redundancies; the listener is nothing until renouncing the world's
delusive joys.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:17
type: summary
locator: quatrain 457
quote_or_summary: The passage says to bow under heaven's tyranny and drink wine
to face woe; origin and end are both in earth, though now one is above earth,
not below.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: Literal extraction is strong because the passage is explicit and notes provide
identifications. Motif assignments are somewhat interpretive because the quatrains
are aphoristic and symbolic rather than continuous myth narrative. The comparison
claim is limited to the editor's explicit comparison.
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: |-
Only the supplied passage and metadata were used. Available taxonomy references were applied only where directly supported by the passage or editorial note.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg__l10132-l10368
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