batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l10370-l10604
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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 10370-10604
start: '10370'
end: '10604'
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 presents paradise imagery, practical and ascetic
counsel, mutability, wine and cupbearing, death and the tomb, bodies remade as
pottery, critique of hypocrisy, divine self-disclosure, love as binding power,
anonymity, and a final inversion of Noah’s flood into a desired flood of wine.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The passage opens with verdure, crystal Kausars, plains transformed from hell-like
barrenness to heaven-like beauty, and maids of Paradise.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The speaker counsels not relying on friends, enduring pain, and asking no
sympathy.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: 'Two principal dictates of wisdom are stated: fasting rather than eating every
meat, and living alone rather than mating with all.'
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: Unripe grapes, sweetness, sharp wine, and a carved block becoming one instrument
rather than another are used as examples of change or limitation.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: At dawn, a bird’s lament is said to show in a bright looking-glass that a
night of careless life has been spent.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: A cupbearer is summoned to pour blood-red wine from an ewer as a cure for
the world’s despite.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: Philosophic wisdom, imperial rule, and heroic kingship are contrasted with
the shared end of the tomb.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: In a potter’s shop, the potter turns his wheel and makes pitcher heads and
handles from monarchs’ heads and beggars’ feet.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: The speaker says true senselessness can be attained by draining the Etern
Cupbearer’s goblet, while not every fool can gain it.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:10
text: Before death’s portal and before potters make jugs from the speaker and Love,
wine is to be poured from a jug into cups.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:11
text: A warning urges action before death’s cup flows and ruthless fortune lays
one low.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:12
text: The addressed Thou is asked who framed the lots of quick and dead, who turns
the wheel of heaven, and who created sinful slaves.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:13
text: A Shaikh accuses a harlot of slavery to drink and lechery; she replies that
she is what she seems and asks whether he is all he seems to be.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:14
text: The addressed Thou hides a face in clouds, displays it in the universe, and
is described as both spectator and spectacle.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: obs:15
text: Making one soul rejoice and binding one freeman with chains of love are valued
above colonizing a desert or freeing a thousand captives.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: obs:16
text: Drinking wine is said to free the spirit from saintly airs and grief.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: obs:17
text: Wine, bread, mutton, and a tulip-cheeked companion in a hut are said to surpass
a Sultan’s lot.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- id: obs:18
text: Khizr and Elias are invoked as examples, yet the counsel is to know no one
and be known by no one.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- id: obs:19
text: The speaker rejects preaching about Noah and his flood and asks instead for
a flood of wine to drown pain.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: speaker
description: The poetic first-person voice who counsels, questions, drinks, and
addresses Love, the cupbearer, and Thou.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:6
- ev:10
- ev:12
- ev:19
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: cupbearer
description: A cupbearer summoned to pour wine from a full-throated ewer.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Etern Cupbearer
description: A cupbearer associated with a goblet that grants true senselessness
when drained.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: potter
description: A tradesman in a potter’s shop who turns a wheel and makes pitchers
from human remains or bodies.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:10
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: monarchs and beggars
description: Dead or bodily human material described as monarchs’ heads and beggars’
feet used for pitcher parts.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Love
description: A directly addressed beloved or personified Love who is asked to lift
sorrow and share wine before death.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:20
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Thou
description: An addressed divine figure described as framing the lots of quick and
dead, turning heaven’s wheel, creating sinful slaves, hiding and displaying a
face, and being spectator and spectacle.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:14
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Shaikh
description: A religious figure who rebukes a harlot for drink and lechery.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: harlot
description: A woman rebuked by a Shaikh who answers by questioning whether the
Shaikh is what he seems.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Khizr and Elias
description: Named figures invoked in a counsel about avoiding fame and social knowledge.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Noah
description: A biblical or Qur'anic flood figure mentioned as a subject of preaching
that the speaker rejects.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: tulip-cheeked companion
description: A companion addressed as sharing the speaker’s hut with wine, bread,
and mutton.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
roles:
- id: role:1
label: poetic counselor and questioner
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker offers counsel, asks questions, and issues requests across multiple
quatrains.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:6
- ev:12
- id: role:2
label: wine giver
assigned_to:
- fig:2
- fig:3
basis: Both cupbearer figures are associated with pouring or providing wine from
ewers or goblets.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:9
- id: role:3
label: maker from mortal remains
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The potter makes pitcher parts from monarchs’ heads and beggars’ feet and
is imagined making jugs from the speaker and Love.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:10
- id: role:4
label: equalized dead
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Monarchs and beggars are reduced to material for pottery.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:5
label: beloved or intimate companion
assigned_to:
- fig:6
- fig:12
basis: Love and the tulip-cheeked companion are addressed as intimate figures associated
with sorrow, wine, or shared dwelling.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:17
- ev:20
- id: role:6
label: creator and self-displaying divine addressee
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The Thou creates humans, turns heaven’s wheel, and displays a face in the
universe.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:14
- id: role:7
label: moral accuser
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The Shaikh accuses the harlot of drink and lechery.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: role:8
label: truth-telling respondent
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: The harlot admits what she seems and challenges the Shaikh’s appearance.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: role:9
label: exemplary named figure
assigned_to:
- fig:10
- fig:11
basis: Khizr, Elias, and Noah are invoked as recognized figures in brief illustrative
references.
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- ev:19
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: paradisal water and verdure
literal_form: crystal Kausars, sweet verdure, heaven-like plains, maids of Paradise
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: wine
literal_form: blood-red wine, wine as friend, wine used to drown pain, and wine
shared with food and companions
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:6
- fig:12
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:9
- ev:10
- ev:16
- ev:17
- ev:19
- id: sym:3
label: cup, goblet, jug, and ewer
literal_form: ewer, goblet, cup, jug, and vessels used for wine or made by potters
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: sym:4
label: potter’s wheel and pitchers
literal_form: potter’s shop, wheel, pitcher heads, handles, jugs
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:10
- id: sym:5
label: death boundary
literal_form: tomb, death’s portal, death’s cup
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: sym:6
label: dawn looking-glass
literal_form: dawn’s bright looking-glass and the dark firmament silvered by dawn
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:7
label: wheel of heaven
literal_form: troublous wheel of heaven
associated_figures:
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: sym:8
label: chains of love
literal_form: chains of love binding a freeman
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: sym:9
label: flood of wine
literal_form: Noah’s flood contrasted with a flood of wine
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:11
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
- id: sym:10
label: divine face in clouds and universe
literal_form: Thy face immersed in thick clouds and displayed in the universe
associated_figures:
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Paradisal landscape invited for enjoyment
summary: The passage describes a landscape of verdure, Kausars, heaven-like plains,
and maids of Paradise, with an invitation to enjoy it.
figure_refs: []
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Counsels of endurance and solitude
summary: Several quatrains advise enduring grief without sympathy, fasting rather
than indiscriminate eating, solitude, and anonymity.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:10
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:18
- id: scene:3
label: Dawn as mirror of spent life
summary: Dawn and the bird’s lament become a scene in which the passing of a careless
night is made visible.
figure_refs: []
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:4
label: Wine as solace and liberation
summary: The speaker calls for wine from the cupbearer or Etern Cupbearer and describes
wine as pure, consoling, liberating, and able to drown pain.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:11
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:9
- ev:16
- ev:19
- id: scene:5
label: Mortality and the potter
summary: Rulers and commoners alike end in the tomb, and a potter transforms monarchs’
heads and beggars’ feet into pitcher parts; the speaker imagines himself and Love
becoming jugs.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:10
- id: scene:6
label: Shaikh and harlot exchange
summary: A Shaikh condemns a harlot, and she responds by turning the question of
appearance and reality back upon him.
figure_refs:
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: scene:7
label: Divine creation and self-display
summary: The addressed Thou is questioned as creator and mover of heaven’s wheel,
then described as hiding and displaying the divine face and being both spectator
and spectacle.
figure_refs:
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
- sym:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:14
- id: scene:8
label: Simple hut surpassing kingship
summary: Wine, bread, mutton, and a beloved companion in a hut are valued above
a Sultan’s lot.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:12
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: paradise garden with sacred water
taxonomy_refs:
- afterlife_journey_map
basis: The passage depicts Kausars, verdure, heaven-like plains, and maids of Paradise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: medium
cautions: The quatrain invites enjoyment of paradisal imagery but does not narrate
a full afterlife journey.
- id: motif:2
label: wine as mystical solace and liberation
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
basis: Wine is repeatedly invoked as cure, friend, means of true senselessness,
freedom from saintly airs and grief, and a flood to drown pain.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:9
- ev:16
- ev:19
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage includes Sufi interpretive notes, but the literal text also
supports ordinary drinking imagery; mystical reading needs review.
- id: motif:3
label: mortality equalizes king and beggar
taxonomy_refs:
- death_rebirth
basis: Rulers, philosophers, and heroic kings end in the tomb, and monarchs and
beggars become material for pottery.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: The evidence strongly supports mortality and equalization; rebirth is
only materially implied through pottery, not explicit resurrection.
- id: motif:4
label: human body remade as vessel
taxonomy_refs:
- death_rebirth
basis: The potter makes pitcher parts from monarchs’ heads and beggars’ feet, and
the speaker imagines potters making jugs from himself and Love.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: The motif is material transformation rather than doctrinal rebirth.
- id: motif:5
label: divine creator questioned about human sin
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The speaker asks the divine Thou who created sinful slaves and whether it
is for the creator to blame them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
confidence: medium
cautions: The quatrain raises a challenge around blame and creation; it does not
depict an explicit judgment scene.
- id: motif:6
label: divine self-manifestation as spectator and spectacle
taxonomy_refs:
- annihilation_union
basis: The addressed Thou is described as hiding and displaying the divine face
and being both spectator and spectacle.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
confidence: medium
cautions: The text suggests nondual self-display, but union or annihilation is not
directly narrated in this quatrain.
- id: motif:7
label: wise solitude and distrust of worldly ties
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: Counsels advise not relying on friends, enduring grief, fasting, living alone,
and remaining unknown even if one were Khizr or Elias.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:18
confidence: high
cautions: This is a didactic wisdom pattern rather than a narrative motif.
- id: motif:8
label: hypocrisy exposed by marginal truth-teller
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: A Shaikh rebukes a harlot, who replies by questioning whether he is truly
what he seems.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
confidence: high
cautions: The passage gives a brief dialogue only; broader social or doctrinal interpretation
should be reviewed.
- id: motif:9
label: flood transformed into wine image
taxonomy_refs:
- flood_and_renewal
basis: The speaker rejects preaching about Noah’s flood and asks for a flood of
wine to drown pain.
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
confidence: medium
cautions: The flood motif is invoked humorously or polemically, not narrated as
cosmic destruction or renewal.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The note compares the distinction between unwritten traditions and the Qur'an
to the distinction between sruti and smriti.
claim_level: same_function
target: Hadis/Qur'an and sruti/smriti distinction
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: This is an editorial comparison in the passage notes, not a narrative
motif in the quatrain itself.
- id: claim:2
claim: The note compares dawn’s bright looking-glass image with Job’s image of the
sky as a molten looking-glass.
claim_level: visual_similarity
target: Job’s molten looking-glass sky image
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The comparison is limited to shared mirror-like sky imagery.
- id: claim:3
claim: The note explicitly compares the divine spectator/spectacle quatrain with
a Vulgate phrase and with Gulshan i Raz.
claim_level: same_function
target: Vulgate ludens in orbe terrarum and Gulshan i Raz self-display imagery
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage provides only a brief editorial comparison, without quoting
the compared texts in full.
- id: claim:4
claim: The passage invokes Noah’s flood only to invert it into a requested flood
of wine.
claim_level: same_motif
target: Noah flood tradition
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: This is an allusive inversion rather than a retelling of the flood
narrative.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 10370-10374; quatrain 459
quote_or_summary: The quatrain describes verdure, crystal Kausars, plains once bare
as hell now smiling as heaven, and maids of Paradise.
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 460
quote_or_summary: The speaker counsels not relying on friends, enduring pain and
grief, and asking no sympathy.
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 461 and note
quote_or_summary: Wisdom’s two principal dictates are fasting rather than eating
every meat and living alone rather than mating with all; the note explains Hadis
and compares oral/traditional categories with Qur'an and sruti/smriti.
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 462
quote_or_summary: The quatrain asks about unripe grapes becoming sweet, wine becoming
sharp, and whether a block carved into a lute can also become a pipe.
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 463 and note
quote_or_summary: Dawn silvers the firmament; the bird of dawning laments to show
in dawn’s bright looking-glass that a night of careless life has passed; the note
compares Job’s molten looking-glass sky.
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 464
quote_or_summary: The speaker summons the cupbearer to pour blood-red wine from
a full-throated ewer, calling wine genuine, solacing, and pure.
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 465
quote_or_summary: Aristotle-like wisdom, Caesar-like rule, Jemshid’s goblet, and
Bahram’s identity are all set against the repeated end of the tomb.
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 466
quote_or_summary: In a potter’s shop the potter turns his wheel and makes pitcher
heads and handles out of monarchs’ heads and beggars’ feet.
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 467 and note
quote_or_summary: The speaker says that true senselessness is gained by draining
the Etern Cupbearer’s goblet; the note glosses this as mystical darkness of ignorance.
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 468 and note
quote_or_summary: Before Love passes death’s portal and potters make jugs of the
speaker and Love, wine is to be poured from a jug and cups filled; the note mentions
wine of Paradise.
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 470
quote_or_summary: The quatrain urges action before death’s cup flows and fortune’s
blows lay one low, because those who go empty-handed have nothing there.
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 471
quote_or_summary: The speaker asks the addressed Thou who framed the lots of quick
and dead, who turns heaven’s wheel, and who created sinful slaves.
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 473 and note
quote_or_summary: A Shaikh calls a harlot enslaved to drink and lechery; she replies
that she is what she seems and asks whether he is all he seems to be; the note
calls this a question-and-answer quatrain type.
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 475 and note
quote_or_summary: The addressed Thou hides the divine face in clouds, displays it
in the universe, and is both spectator and spectacle; the note compares the Vulgate
and Gulshan i Raz.
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 476
quote_or_summary: The quatrain values making one soul rejoice and binding one freeman
with chains of love above planting a desert colony or freeing a thousand captives.
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 478
quote_or_summary: The quatrain says that drinking two maunds of wine like a libertine
frees the spirit from saintly airs and grief.
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 479
quote_or_summary: The speaker says that wine, wheat bread, mutton, and a tulip-cheeked
companion in a hut surpass the lot of every Sultan.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:18
type: summary
locator: quatrain 480
quote_or_summary: The quatrain says that whether one is called wicked, intriguing,
Khizr, or Elias, it is best to know no one and be known by no one.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:19
type: summary
locator: quatrain 481
quote_or_summary: The speaker says repentance was in vain, rejects preaching about
Noah and his flood, and asks for a flood of wine to drown pain.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:20
type: summary
locator: quatrain 469
quote_or_summary: The speaker addresses Love and asks Love to lift sorrow’s burden
from the lover’s heart before Love’s graces depart.
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: medium
notes: Literal extraction is strong for recurring wine, death, pottery, counsel,
and divine address. Motif mapping is more interpretive, especially for Sufi mystical
readings and taxonomy alignment.
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 provided passage and metadata were used. Taxonomy references are limited to supplied motif families and symbols.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg__l10370-l10604
passage_sha256=26dcfd6c91677a50b8450771f9d969800632f54735295d8676f2bcfee6cec7c8