Comparative mythology corpus

batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l11539-l11731

batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l11539-l11731

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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l11539-l11731
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
passage_locator:
  label: QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM / MONSIEUR J.B. NICOLAS / THE QUATRAINS OF KHAYYAM
    / THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 11539-11731
  start: '11539'
  end: '11731'
  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 sin and pardon, divine secrets, the
    limits of worldly searching, the beloved's beauty, religious fear of Hell and
    hope for Paradise, wine and the cup as chosen practice, mortality, the secrecy
    of inner matters, the world as transient, love as illumination, and the body's
    return to dust and vegetation.
  language: English
  quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
  text: The speaker asks why Khayyam should grieve over sin, since pardon exists for
    sin.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: obs:2
  text: The passage states that no one can enter the secrets of God behind a mysterious
    curtain and that human beings have only the earthly mind as dwelling.
  category: attribute
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: obs:3
  text: After searching the inconstant world, the speaker says the moon pales before
    the addressed figure's visage and the cypress is deformed beside that figure's
    form.
  category: relationship
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: obs:4
  text: Mosque, medresseh, church, and synagogue are named as places where people
    fear Hell and seek Paradise, while those who penetrate the All-Powerful's secrets
    are said not to harbor such disquiet.
  category: setting
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: obs:5
  text: World travel and hearing or seeing across the universe are described as amounting
    to nothing.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: obs:6
  text: A sage seen in thought advises the speaker not to sleep, compares sleep to
    death, and urges drinking wine because burial will bring enough sleep.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: obs:7
  text: At a future cosmic disordering, when heavens are confounded and stars obscured,
    the speaker says he will seize the addressed Idol's robe and ask why life was
    taken from him.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: obs:8
  text: The passage warns that secrets should not be told to the indiscreet and even
    should be concealed from the nightingale.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: obs:9
  text: The speaker addresses a Cupbearer, says time is ready to break both speaker
    and addressee, and identifies the jug of wine between them with God in their hands.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: obs:10
  text: The speaker describes walking among flowers with cup in hand and refusing
    to leave the path of wine despite unfulfilled projects.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
- id: obs:11
  text: The speaker asks for a cup of wine, says life slips away like quicksilver,
    and compares youth's fire to water running away in a torrent.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: obs:12
  text: The passage personifies the world as the bride of the human race and gives
    her dowry as joy of the heart.
  category: object
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
- id: obs:13
  text: Passion is compared to a house dog, fox, hare, tiger, and wolf.
  category: attribute
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
- id: obs:14
  text: Green plants beside a brook are said to spring from dust that was once a rose-colored
    face.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
- id: obs:15
  text: A heart illumined by the light of love is said to write its name in the book
    of love and be freed from fear of Hell while awaiting Paradise.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
- id: obs:16
  text: The speaker says wine is drunk not from mere desire or insult to faith, but
    for passing relief from self.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:16
- id: obs:17
  text: The passage claims that if all lovers of beauty and the cup deserve Hell,
    then Paradise will be empty.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:17
figures:
- id: fig:1
  name_or_label: Khayyam / poetic speaker
  description: The addressed and speaking figure who reflects on sin, searches the
    world, drinks wine, questions divine secrets, and speaks of death and self-relief.
  role_refs:
  - role:1
  - role:2
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:3
  - ev:5
  - ev:7
  - ev:9
  - ev:10
  - ev:16
- id: fig:2
  name_or_label: God / All-Powerful
  description: The divine figure whose secrets are hidden, who molds the speaker from
    clay, illumines hearts with love, and is associated with the jug of wine in hand.
  role_refs:
  - role:3
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:4
  - ev:9
  - ev:15
  - ev:18
- id: fig:3
  name_or_label: Beloved / Idol / addressed Thou
  description: An addressed figure whose visage and form surpass moon and cypress,
    whose robe the speaker would seize when heavens and stars are disordered, and
    whose name is invoked at death.
  role_refs:
  - role:4
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:7
  - ev:19
- id: fig:4
  name_or_label: sage seen in thought
  description: A sage appearing in the speaker's thought and advising against sleep
    and in favor of wine.
  role_refs:
  - role:5
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: fig:5
  name_or_label: Cupbearer
  description: The directly addressed bearer or companion of wine, present when time
    threatens both speaker and addressee.
  role_refs:
  - role:6
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: fig:6
  name_or_label: bride of the human race / world
  description: A personified world who answers that her dowry is the joy of her heart.
  role_refs:
  - role:7
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
- id: fig:7
  name_or_label: lovers and secret-knowers
  description: Collective figures described as lovers, penetrators of secrets, or
    hearts illumined by love, contrasted with ordinary religious fear.
  role_refs:
  - role:8
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
  - ev:15
  - ev:17
- id: fig:8
  name_or_label: religious hypocrites and institutional worshippers
  description: Collective figures associated with mosque, medresseh, church, synagogue,
    fear of Hell, hope for Paradise, and groans of hypocritical prayer.
  role_refs:
  - role:9
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
  - ev:19
roles:
- id: role:1
  label: questioning seeker
  assigned_to:
  - fig:1
  basis: The speaker searches the world, asks about divine secrets and life, and declares
    worldly experience to be nothing.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:5
  - ev:7
- id: role:2
  label: wine-drinking lover seeking relief from self
  assigned_to:
  - fig:1
  basis: The speaker walks with cup in hand, asks for wine, and says wine is for relief
    from self.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
  - ev:11
  - ev:16
- id: role:3
  label: hidden divine source and illuminator
  assigned_to:
  - fig:2
  basis: God's secrets are inaccessible; the All-Powerful's secrets are penetrated
    by some; God illumines hearts with love.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:4
  - ev:15
- id: role:4
  label: beloved addressee
  assigned_to:
  - fig:3
  basis: The addressee's beauty surpasses moon and cypress, is called Idol, and is
    invoked as Beloved at death.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:7
  - ev:19
- id: role:5
  label: admonishing sage
  assigned_to:
  - fig:4
  basis: The sage appears in thought and offers advice against sleep and for wine.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: role:6
  label: wine mediator
  assigned_to:
  - fig:5
  basis: The Cupbearer is addressed in relation to the jug of wine between speaker
    and addressee.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: role:7
  label: personified transient world
  assigned_to:
  - fig:6
  basis: The world is called the bride of the human race and speaks about her dowry.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
- id: role:8
  label: initiated lovers
  assigned_to:
  - fig:7
  basis: Those who penetrate divine secrets, hearts illumined by love, and lovers
    of the fair and the cup are distinguished from fear-based religiosity.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
  - ev:15
  - ev:17
- id: role:9
  label: fear-based religious practitioners
  assigned_to:
  - fig:8
  basis: Institutional settings are associated with fear of Hell and pursuit of Paradise,
    and praying hypocrites are contrasted with lovers' sighs.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
  - ev:19
symbols:
- id: sym:1
  label: mysterious curtain
  literal_form: Curtain hiding the secrets of God
  associated_figures:
  - fig:2
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: sym:2
  label: earthly mind as dwelling
  literal_form: The earthly mind described as the only dwelling available
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: sym:3
  label: moon and cypress surpassed by beloved
  literal_form: Moon paling before the visage; cypress deformed beside the form
  associated_figures:
  - fig:3
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: sym:4
  label: religious buildings
  literal_form: Mosque, medresseh, church, synagogue
  associated_figures:
  - fig:8
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: sym:5
  label: Hell and Paradise
  literal_form: Afterlife destinations named as objects of fear, hope, indifference,
    or argument
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  - fig:7
  - fig:8
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
  - ev:15
  - ev:17
  - ev:19
- id: sym:6
  label: wine, cup, and jug
  literal_form: Wine, cup in hand, jug of wine between speaker and Cupbearer
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  - fig:5
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
  - ev:10
  - ev:11
  - ev:16
- id: sym:7
  label: sleep and burial
  literal_form: Sleep compared to death; future sleep in the earth after burial
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  - fig:4
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: sym:8
  label: hem of the robe
  literal_form: The hem of the Idol's robe seized by the speaker
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  - fig:3
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: sym:9
  label: cosmic darkening
  literal_form: Heavens confounded and stars obscured
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  - fig:3
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: sym:10
  label: fire of youth
  literal_form: Youth described as fire running away
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  taxonomy_refs:
  - fire
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: sym:11
  label: water of a torrent
  literal_form: Water of a torrent used to compare the passing of youth
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  taxonomy_refs:
  - water
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: sym:12
  label: brookside greens from human dust
  literal_form: Greens by a brook growing from dust that was once a face
  associated_figures: []
  taxonomy_refs:
  - water
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
- id: sym:13
  label: book of love
  literal_form: A book in which hearts illumined by love inscribe their names
  associated_figures:
  - fig:7
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
- id: sym:14
  label: clay of human formation
  literal_form: Clay from which God molded the speaker
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:18
- id: sym:15
  label: animal figures of passion
  literal_form: House dog, fox, hare, tiger, and wolf as comparisons for passion
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
scenes:
- id: scene:1
  label: Sin, pardon, and hidden divine knowledge
  summary: The speaker frames sin in relation to pardon and states that divine secrets
    behind a curtain cannot be reached by ordinary human mind.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:1
  - sym:2
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:2
- id: scene:2
  label: Search through the world and surpassing beloved beauty
  summary: The speaker reports a long search in the transient world and concludes
    that the beloved's visage and form exceed the moon and cypress.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:3
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:3
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: scene:3
  label: Institutional fear contrasted with secret knowledge
  summary: Religious institutions are associated with fear of Hell and desire for
    Paradise, while those who penetrate divine secrets do not carry such disquiet.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:2
  - fig:7
  - fig:8
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:4
  - sym:5
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: scene:4
  label: Sage counsels wine before burial
  summary: A sage appearing in thought says sleep has not produced happiness, resembles
    death, and should be displaced by wine before the inevitable sleep in earth.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:4
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:6
  - sym:7
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: scene:5
  label: Cosmic disorder and confrontation with the Idol
  summary: At a time when heavens are confounded and stars obscured, the speaker imagines
    stopping the Idol, seizing the robe, and asking why life was taken away.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:3
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:8
  - sym:9
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: scene:6
  label: Cupbearer, impermanence, and wine as divine presence
  summary: The speaker tells the Cupbearer that time will break them both and that
    the world is not permanent, yet the jug of wine between them places God in their
    hands.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  - fig:5
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:6
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: scene:7
  label: Wine path and vanishing youth
  summary: The speaker walks among flowers with a cup, refuses to leave wine's path,
    asks for wine, and marks the rapid slipping away of life and youth.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:6
  - sym:10
  - sym:11
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
  - ev:11
- id: scene:8
  label: World bride and love's alternative creed
  summary: The speaker calls drinking wine and rejoicing his gospel, treats heresy
    and religion indifferently, and asks the personified world-bride about her dowry.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:6
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:6
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
- id: scene:9
  label: Vegetation from former human dust
  summary: Green plants beside a brook are described as beautiful and as arising from
    dust that once formed a rose-colored face.
  figure_refs: []
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:12
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
- id: scene:10
  label: Love, afterlife fear, and relief from self
  summary: Love illumines the heart and removes fear of Hell; the speaker invokes
    wine, the Beloved, and relief from self, and argues that condemning lovers of
    beauty and the cup would empty Paradise.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:3
  - fig:7
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:5
  - sym:6
  - sym:13
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
  - ev:16
  - ev:17
  - ev:19
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
  label: Hidden divine secrets and limits of human knowing
  taxonomy_refs:
  - wisdom
  - forbidden_knowledge
  basis: The passage repeatedly says divine secrets are behind a mysterious curtain,
    cannot be penetrated by ordinary mind, and would only be known if the heart knew
    the secrets of life and death.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:4
  - ev:20
  confidence: high
  cautions: The passage emphasizes inaccessibility and secrecy more than a narrative
    quest for forbidden knowledge.
- id: motif:2
  label: Divine or ideal beloved surpassing celestial and natural beauty
  taxonomy_refs:
  - divine_beloved
  basis: The addressed figure's visage outshines the moon and the figure's form surpasses
    the cypress; the Beloved is also invoked at death.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:19
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The passage uses beloved and idol language, but it does not explicitly
    state that all such references are identical with God.
- id: motif:3
  label: Wine and cup as mystical practice or self-transcendence
  taxonomy_refs:
  - mystical_quest
  - annihilation_union
  basis: Wine, cup, and jug are repeatedly chosen over worldly aims; the jug is identified
    with God in the hands, and wine is explicitly said to provide passing relief from
    self.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
  - ev:10
  - ev:11
  - ev:16
  confidence: high
  cautions: The language remains poetic and symbolic; the passage does not supply
    a systematic doctrine of union.
- id: motif:4
  label: Relativizing Hell and Paradise through love
  taxonomy_refs:
  - divine_judgment
  - divine_beloved
  basis: Fear of Hell and hope for Paradise are contrasted with those who know divine
    secrets or are illumined by love; the speaker says Hell and Paradise are one to
    him and argues that Paradise would be empty if lovers of beauty and the cup were
    damned.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
  - ev:15
  - ev:17
  - ev:19
  confidence: high
  cautions: This is a lyric theological stance rather than a narrative judgment scene.
- id: motif:5
  label: Mortality, impermanence, and carpe-diem wine counsel
  taxonomy_refs:
  - death_rebirth
  basis: Sleep is likened to death and burial; time is ready to break speaker and
    Cupbearer; life and youth slip away, prompting the request for wine.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
  - ev:9
  - ev:11
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The taxonomy reference is only partial because the passage stresses mortality
    more than explicit rebirth.
- id: motif:6
  label: Human dust becoming flowers or greenery
  taxonomy_refs:
  - death_rebirth
  basis: Brookside greens are said to arise from dust that was once a face, implying
    transformation of human remains into plant life.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The passage does not narrate an individual resurrection; the pattern is
    vegetal transformation from human dust.
- id: motif:7
  label: Confronting the divine beloved at cosmic dissolution
  taxonomy_refs:
  - divine_judgment
  basis: When the heavens are confounded and stars obscured, the speaker imagines
    stopping the Idol and questioning why life was taken away.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The scene reverses ordinary judgment imagery by having the speaker question
    the addressed figure; the addressee's precise identity remains poetically ambiguous.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
  type: summary
  locator: lines 11539-11544; quatrain 43
  quote_or_summary: The speaker asks Khayyam why he grieves over sin and says pardon
    exists for sin.
  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: lines 11546-11551; quatrain 44
  quote_or_summary: No one has access to God's secrets behind the mysterious curtain;
    no one can penetrate there, and the earthly mind is the only dwelling.
  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: lines 11553-11560; quatrain 45
  quote_or_summary: After long searching in the inconstant world, the speaker finds
    the moon pales before the addressee's visage and the cypress is deformed beside
    the addressee's form.
  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: lines 11562-11568; quatrain 46
  quote_or_summary: In mosque, medresseh, church, and synagogue people fear Hell and
    seek Paradise; such disquiet does not germinate in those who penetrate the All-Powerful's
    secrets.
  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: lines 11570-11577; quatrain 47
  quote_or_summary: The speaker says travel over the world, seeing and hearing, and
    going from one end of the universe to the other amount to nothing.
  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: lines 11579-11585; quatrain 48
  quote_or_summary: A sage seen in thought says sleep never makes happiness bloom,
    resembles death, and should give way to wine because burial will bring enough
    sleep.
  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: lines 11594-11600; quatrain 50
  quote_or_summary: When the heavens are confounded and stars obscured, the speaker
    will stop the Idol, take the hem of the robe, and ask why life was taken.
  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: lines 11602-11607; quatrain 51
  quote_or_summary: Secrets should not be told to the indiscreet and should be concealed
    even from the nightingale; forced exposure torments human souls.
  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: lines 11609-11616; quatrain 52
  quote_or_summary: 'The speaker addresses the Cupbearer: time will break both of
    them, the world is no permanent place, and while the jug of wine is between them,
    God is in their hands.'
  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: lines 11618-11625; quatrain 53
  quote_or_summary: With cup in hand, the speaker walked among flowers; wine did not
    bring desired goals, but the speaker will not leave its path.
  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: lines 11627-11633; quatrain 54
  quote_or_summary: The speaker asks for wine, says life slips away like quicksilver,
    and describes youth's fire running away like torrent water.
  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: lines 11643-11648; quatrain 56
  quote_or_summary: The speaker calls wine and rejoicing his gospel, treats heresy
    and religion indifferently, and asks the world-bride about her dowry, which is
    joy of heart.
  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: lines 11658-11662; quatrain 58
  quote_or_summary: Human passion is compared to a house dog, fox, hare, tiger, and
    wolf.
  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: lines 11664-11671; quatrain 59
  quote_or_summary: The green plants beside a brook are beautiful and are said to
    spring from dust that was once a rose-colored face.
  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: lines 11673-11678; quatrain 60
  quote_or_summary: A heart illumined by love, whether frequenting mosque or synagogue,
    writes its name in the book of love and is freed from fear of Hell while awaiting
    Paradise.
  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: lines 11696-11701; quatrain 63
  quote_or_summary: The speaker says wine is not drunk from mere desire, mob rousing,
    or insult to faith, but for passing relief from self.
  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: lines 11703-11708; quatrain 64
  quote_or_summary: The passage criticizes claims about Hell and Heaven and says that
    if lovers of beauty and the cup deserve Hell, Paradise will be empty.
  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: lines 11650-11656; quatrain 57
  quote_or_summary: The speaker says he is worthy neither of Hell nor celestial abode
    and that God knows from what clay he was molded.
  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: lines 11680-11694; quatrains 61-62
  quote_or_summary: A cup of wine is preferred to kingdoms and thrones; at death after
    carousing, the speaker asks for wine and the Beloved, saying Hell and Paradise
    are one to him.
  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: lines 11587-11592; quatrain 49
  quote_or_summary: If the heart knew the secrets of life, it would know the secrets
    of God at death; knowing nothing while with oneself, it will know nothing when
    separated from itself.
  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: uncertain
  notes: Literal extraction is strong because the passage is explicit and repetitive.
    Motif labels involving Sufi or mystical interpretation are plausible but require
    human review because the passage's beloved, Idol, and God language is poetically
    fluid.
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 comparison claims were added because the passage does not itself establish contact with another tradition or text. Taxonomy references use only the supplied controlled lists.
  batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
  custom_id=motif_extract:sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg__l11539-l11731
  passage_sha256=ee21e74d888a3cfe1b33795f37467f6db9522ceae9bf9d94ea5909f85a88334c