batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l12711-l12911
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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 12711-12911
start: '12711'
end: '12911'
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 counsels detachment from worldly envy, gold, silver,
sectarian anxiety, and metaphysical speculation; presents destiny and Providence
as inaccessible; invokes God as a gentle Friend rather than an angry judge; repeatedly
praises wine as truth, alchemy, elixir, comfort, and life-giving drink; describes
spring revivification through Mosaic and Jesus imagery; laments the Wheel of Heaven
and mortality; and asks friends to remember Khayyam with wine after his death.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The speaker advises restraining envy of worldly things, breaking bonds to
good and bad below, living contentedly, and recognizing that life is brief while
the heavens continue their course.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The passage states that no one has gone behind the curtain of destiny or learned
the secrets of Providence, despite long reflection.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The passage reports a claim that there will be judgments at the last day and
that God will be angry, then counters that pure goodness produces goodness and
that God is gentle.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: Wine is said to end the heart's disquiet and free the drinker from meditations
on the seventy-two sects.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: Wine is called an alchemy that destroys many infirmities.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: The speaker says he would divorce himself from religion and reason before
espousing the daughter of the vine.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: The speaker argues that God eternally knew he would drink wine and that not
doing so would contradict divine prescience.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:8
text: A ruby pipe, an emerald, and a serpent of grief are mentioned in connection
with drunken scandal and sorrow.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:9
text: Ignorant persons are described as never having spent a night in quest of truth,
never stepping outside themselves, and slandering the irreproachable.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:10
text: At dawn, the addressee is told to hold a sparkling cup; wine is identified
with truth because truth is said to be bitter in mortal mouths.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:11
text: Spring is described with verdure, buds on branches, plants rising from earth,
and clouds opening their eyes and weeping.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:12
text: The buds are compared to the hand of Moses, and plant revivification is compared
to the breath of Jesus.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:13
text: The speaker advises avoiding the trouble of acquiring silver and gold and
eating with a friend before death.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:14
text: Wine poured by the cupbearer is said to extinguish the fire of anger in the
eyes and drive many sorrows from the heart.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:15
text: Friends are asked to meet after the speaker's death, rejoice together, and
remember Khayyam when the cupbearer brings old wine.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: obs:16
text: The Wheel of Heaven is described as denying happiness, plunging the speaker
into grief, multiplying griefs, and bearing away what it places below.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: obs:17
text: Wine is described as giving eternal life, as a source of youthful joy, as
burning like fire, and as driving away care.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- id: obs:18
text: The inhabitants of the tomb are said to return to earth as dust, their atoms
scattered and separated.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Khayyam / poetic speaker
description: The first-person speaker counsels the addressee, defends drinking wine,
reflects on destiny, and asks friends to remember poor Khayyam after death.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:6
- ev:15
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: God / dear Friend
description: God is called the dear Friend, associated with Providence, divine prescience,
goodness, gentleness, pity, and the reported threat of Hell.
role_refs:
- role:3
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:6
- ev:14
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: cupbearer
description: A figure who pours wine into the cup and later takes a cup of old wine
in hand.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:15
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: friends
description: Companions addressed as friends, urged to eat together before death
and to reunite after Khayyam's death.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:15
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: wise drinker
description: The wise person is presented as the proper drinker of wine and as one
who drinks in season among blooming violets and roses.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:13
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: ignorant slanderers
description: Persons described as ignorant, unacquainted with the quest of truth,
self-enclosed, outwardly lordly, and slanderous.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Wheel of Heaven
description: A personified heavenly wheel that is said to deny happiness, multiply
griefs, and remove what it places in the world.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: inhabitants of the tomb
description: The dead are described as returning to earth in dust with their atoms
scattered.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
roles:
- id: role:1
label: admonishing speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker repeatedly gives commands and counsel about worldly attachment,
wine, death, and joy.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:11
- ev:15
- ev:18
- id: role:2
label: wine-defending speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker explicitly declares drinking wine and justifies it through divine
prescience.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:3
label: divine Friend
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: God is named as the dear Friend and is characterized as gentle and known
by friends rather than strangers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:14
- id: role:4
label: judge associated with mercy
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The passage mentions last-day judgments and Hell but counters the fear of
divine anger with goodness, gentleness, and pity.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:14
- id: role:5
label: wine dispenser
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The cupbearer pours wine into cups and brings old wine for the friends' remembrance.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:15
- id: role:6
label: companions and commemorators
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Friends are told to eat together before death and later gather to remember
Khayyam.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:15
- id: role:7
label: wise participant in wine-drinking
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The passage asks who would drink wine if not the wise and describes the wise
drinking among seasonal flowers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:13
- id: role:8
label: false or ignorant critics
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: They are described as lacking the quest of truth and slandering those whose
conduct is irreproachable.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:9
label: adverse cosmic force
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The Wheel of Heaven is described as causing grief and bearing away what it
gives.
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: role:10
label: dead returned to matter
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The tomb's inhabitants return to earth as dust and scattered atoms.
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: wine
literal_form: wine, old wine, juice divine, drink
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:5
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:9
- ev:12
- ev:15
- ev:17
- id: sym:2
label: cup
literal_form: cup, sparkling cup, cup of old wine
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:12
- ev:13
- ev:15
- id: sym:3
label: curtain of destiny
literal_form: curtain of destiny
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:4
label: Wheel of Heaven
literal_form: periodic movement of the heavens; Wheel of Heaven
associated_figures:
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:16
- id: sym:5
label: daughter of the vine
literal_form: daughter of the vine
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:6
label: serpent of grief
literal_form: serpent of my grief
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- serpent
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:7
label: fire
literal_form: fire of anger; wine burns like fire
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:17
- id: sym:8
label: spring plants and flowers
literal_form: verdure, buds, branches, plants, violet, roses
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:13
- id: sym:9
label: tomb dust and atoms
literal_form: tomb, earth, dust, atoms
associated_figures:
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
- id: sym:10
label: silver and gold
literal_form: white silver and yellow gold
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: sym:11
label: Hell
literal_form: Hell
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Counsel of detachment under moving heavens
summary: The speaker advises leaving envy and worldly bonds, living contentedly,
and recognizing the short duration of life beneath the ongoing heavenly course.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Unanswered inquiry into destiny and Providence
summary: The speaker says no one has accessed the hidden side of destiny or learned
Providence's secrets, despite many years of reflection.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Last judgment reinterpreted through divine gentleness
summary: The passage cites claims of last-day judgment and divine anger, then answers
that God as Friend is good, gentle, and not to be feared in that way.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:14
- id: scene:4
label: Wine as remedy, truth, and life-giving drink
summary: Wine is repeatedly praised as alchemy, truth, elixir, a remedy for grief
and anger, and a drink that gives eternal life and youthful joy.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:9
- ev:12
- ev:17
- id: scene:5
label: Wine defended by divine foreknowledge
summary: The speaker declares that God eternally knew he would drink wine and argues
that failing to drink would make divine prescience ignorance.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:6
label: Critique of ignorant slanderers
summary: Ignorant people who have not pursued truth are described as self-enclosed
and as slanderers of irreproachable conduct.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: scene:7
label: Spring renewal with Mosaic and Jesus imagery
summary: The world becomes green, buds appear on branches, plants rise from earth
as if revived, and clouds weep; the scene is compared to Moses' hand and Jesus'
breath.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: scene:8
label: Friendship, death, and remembrance
summary: The speaker urges eating with a friend before death and later asks friends
to gather, rejoice, and remember Khayyam with old wine.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:15
- id: scene:9
label: Cosmic grief under the Wheel of Heaven
summary: The Wheel of Heaven is described as never favorable, giving no lasting
happiness, multiplying griefs, and removing what it places below.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: scene:10
label: Return of the dead to dust
summary: The inhabitants of tombs return to earth as dust; their atoms are scattered
while humanity remains in dizzy ignorance until doom.
figure_refs:
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Renunciation of worldly attachment
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The speaker counsels restraining envy, breaking worldly bonds, avoiding silver
and gold, and living contentedly before death.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:11
- ev:18
confidence: high
cautions: This is ethical counsel rather than a narrative myth episode.
- id: motif:2
label: Hidden destiny and unknowable Providence
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
- forbidden_knowledge
basis: The passage says no one has accessed the curtain of destiny or learned Providence's
secrets, despite prolonged reflection.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage emphasizes inaccessible knowledge, but it does not present
a transgressive attempt to seize forbidden knowledge.
- id: motif:3
label: Merciful divine judgment
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
- divine_beloved
basis: Last-day judgment, divine anger, Hell, goodness, gentleness, pity, and God
as Friend are all invoked.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:14
confidence: high
cautions: The passage questions fearful depictions of judgment rather than describing
a full judgment scene.
- id: motif:4
label: Wine as elixir and liberating truth
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
- mystical_quest
basis: Wine is described as alchemy, truth, elixir, relief from sectarian anxiety,
remover of sorrow, and giver of eternal life.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:9
- ev:12
- ev:17
confidence: high
cautions: The text may be read literally or symbolically in Sufi reception; this
extraction records only passage-level functions.
- id: motif:5
label: Quest for truth contrasted with ignorant slander
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
- wisdom
basis: The passage contrasts those who have never spent a night seeking truth or
stepped outside themselves with those they slander.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
confidence: medium
cautions: The quest is stated as a criterion of wisdom, not narrated as an extended
journey.
- id: motif:6
label: Seasonal revivification of the world
taxonomy_refs:
- seasonal_cycle
- resurrection
basis: Spring verdure, buds, flowers, and plants rising from earth are described
as revivified, with comparison to Jesus' breath.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:13
confidence: high
cautions: Resurrection is metaphorical in the spring scene, while eschatological
doom appears elsewhere.
- id: motif:7
label: Commemoration of the dead through convivial drinking
taxonomy_refs:
- death_rebirth
basis: Friends are asked to gather after Khayyam's death and remember him when old
wine is served.
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
confidence: medium
cautions: The motif concerns memory after death, not literal rebirth.
- id: motif:8
label: Adverse cosmic wheel and impermanence
taxonomy_refs:
- chaos
- wisdom
basis: The Wheel of Heaven denies lasting happiness, multiplies griefs, and removes
what it has placed in the world.
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
confidence: medium
cautions: The Wheel is a poetic cosmological image rather than a developed chaos
narrative.
- id: motif:9
label: Return of bodies to dust
taxonomy_refs:
- death_rebirth
basis: The dead are described as returning to earth in dust with atoms scattered.
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage emphasizes dissolution more than rebirth.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The spring passage explicitly compares buds and reviving plants to Mosaic
and Jesus-associated miraculous imagery.
claim_level: same_function
target: scriptural signs of Moses' hand and Jesus' revivifying breath
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The claim is limited to the passage's own similes; it does not establish
historical dependence or a full shared narrative.
- id: claim:2
claim: The passage's Last Day, Hell, and divine anger language places it in functional
relation to divine-judgment patterns, while its answer stresses divine mercy and
friendship.
claim_level: same_function
target: divine_judgment motif family
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:14
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage debates judgment expectations rather than narrating an
actual judgment scene.
- id: claim:3
claim: The repeated description of wine as alchemy, elixir, and giver of eternal
life functions like an immortality-or-transforming-drink pattern.
claim_level: same_function
target: life-giving or transforming elixir pattern
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:12
- ev:17
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The available taxonomy has no direct elixir category, and the wine
may be literal, poetic, or mystical in reception.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 12711-12715
quote_or_summary: The speaker counsels restraining envy of worldly things, breaking
bonds to good and bad below, living contentedly, and remembering that the heavens
move periodically while life is short.
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 177; lines 12717-12722
quote_or_summary: No one has access behind the curtain of destiny or knowledge of
Providence's secrets; after seventy-two years of reflection, the enigma remains
unexplained.
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 178; lines 12724-12729
quote_or_summary: People say the last day will bring judgments and God's anger,
but the speaker replies that pure goodness yields goodness and that God is gentle.
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: quatrains 179-180; lines 12731-12744
quote_or_summary: Wine ends heart-disquiet, frees one from meditations on the seventy-two
sects, is called alchemy that destroys infirmities, and is associated with the
wise drinker.
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 181; lines 12746-12751
quote_or_summary: The speaker would pour wine into a pint cup, drink two cups, divorce
religion and reason three times, and espouse the daughter of the vine.
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 182; lines 12753-12758
quote_or_summary: The speaker declares he drinks wine and argues that, since God
eternally knew this, not drinking would make divine prescience ignorance.
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 183; lines 12760-12765
quote_or_summary: The passage says a rich drinker ruins himself and causes scandal,
then mentions placing an emerald in a ruby pipe to blind the serpent of grief.
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 184; lines 12767-12772
quote_or_summary: Ignorant beings who have never sought truth or gone outside themselves
dress like lords and slander the irreproachable.
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 185; lines 12774-12778
quote_or_summary: At dawn, the addressee is told to hold the sparkling cup; because
truth is bitter in mortal mouths, wine is called truth itself.
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 186; lines 12780-12787
quote_or_summary: Spring ornaments the world with verdure; buds appear like Moses'
hand, plants spring from earth as if by Jesus' breath, and clouds open their eyes
and weep.
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 187; lines 12789-12793
quote_or_summary: The speaker says to avoid vexation over silver and gold and eat
with a friend before one's warm breath is cooled, because afterward enemies will
eat the person.
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 188; lines 12795-12800
quote_or_summary: Wine poured by the cupbearer extinguishes the fire of anger in
burning eyes and is called an elixir driving many sorrows from the 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: quatrain 189; lines 12802-12806
quote_or_summary: When violets and roses bloom, the wise person drinks wine until
he can dash the cup against a stone to show emptiness.
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 190; lines 12808-12814
quote_or_summary: The speaker says a devotee does not appreciate divine pity as
well as 'we'; a stranger cannot know God like a friend, and the threat of Hell
is dismissed as something to tell one who does not know God.
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 192; lines 12823-12829
quote_or_summary: Friends are asked to gather after the speaker's death, rejoice
together, and remember poor Khayyam when the cupbearer brings old wine.
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: quatrains 193 and 195; lines 12831-12852
quote_or_summary: The Wheel of Heaven is described as never propitious, giving no
lasting happiness, plunging the speaker into grief, multiplying griefs, and carrying
away what it places below.
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 196; lines 12854-12858
quote_or_summary: The speaker urges drinking wine, saying it gives eternal life,
is the source of youthful joy, burns like fire, and drives away care like life's
essence.
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 197; lines 12860-12865
quote_or_summary: The speaker asks why the addressee is preoccupied with being and
idle thoughts, advising joyful living because no one asked the addressee about
the making of things as they are.
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 198; lines 12867-12873
quote_or_summary: The inhabitants of tombs return to earth as dust, their atoms
scattered and separated; humanity is described as soaked in a drink of dizzy ignorance
until doom.
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: Extraction is based only on the supplied English passage. Motif labels are
cautious because many images may function literally, poetically, or within Sufi
symbolic reception.
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 external sources or unprovided taxonomy IDs were used.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg__l12711-l12911
passage_sha256=400febbde3f2bcc2cd882d52d5bf109b1b86f24734e39a8f418bc9150fc404cd