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