batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l4308-l4368
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l4308-l4368
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
passage_locator:
label: XCIII. / XCIV. / XCVI. / XCIX.; lines 4308-4368
start: '4308'
end: '4368'
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: The passage presents quatrains and source notes. One speaker imagines Love
and the divine conspiring to grasp, shatter, and remold the scheme of things or
heavens so that freedom and the heart's desire might be attained. Another quatrain
reflects that the moon will continue to wax, wane, and look through the same garden
after the speakers are absent. A following quatrain asks a Saki or friends at
a wine gathering to remember the absent speaker by turning down an empty glass
or goblet when his turn comes.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: A speaker addresses Love and imagines conspiring with Him to grasp the entire
scheme of things.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The speaker proposes shattering the scheme of things and remolding it nearer
to the heart's desire.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: A prose-equivalent quatrain states that if the speaker had God-like control
of the heavens, he would do away with the heavens and construct another heaven
from the beginning.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: The reconstructed heaven is described as enabling freedom and attainment of
the heart's desire.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: The moon is described as rising, waxing, waning, and looking again through
the same garden.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: The moon will later seek the speakers and not find one or them.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: A source quatrain advises making the lovesick heart happy now because no one
can guarantee tomorrow.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: Friends or guests gather together, drink wine, and are asked to remember an
absent friend.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: obs:9
text: When the absent speaker's turn comes in the drinking order, the friends are
instructed to turn a glass or goblet upside down.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:10
text: The cup-bearer is described as taking wine around in his hand during the gathering.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: speaker
description: First-person voice who imagines remaking the scheme of things and later
asks to be remembered at a drinking gathering.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:5
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Love
description: Personified addressee whom the speaker imagines conspiring with Him.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Him / God
description: Divine figure named as Him in the verse and as God in the accompanying
translation from C. 395.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: moon
description: The moon rises, waxes and wanes, and seeks the absent speakers through
the garden.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Saki / Cup-bearer
description: Cup-bearer addressed by the speaker and described as carrying wine
during a gathering.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: friends / guests
description: Companions who gather, drink wine, and are asked to remember the absent
friend.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: absent friend / helpless one
description: A friend or helpless one to be remembered when the cup or goblet reaches
his turn.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
roles:
- id: role:1
label: cosmic remaker in desire
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker imagines shattering and remolding the scheme of things, or making
another heaven, to attain the heart's desire.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:2
label: personified companion in imagined conspiracy
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Love is directly addressed as the one with whom the speaker might conspire.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:3
label: divine controller of heavens
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The passage refers to Him and explicitly to God-like control of the heavens.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:4
label: recurring celestial witness
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The moon repeatedly rises, waxes and wanes, and looks or seeks through the
garden after the human figures are absent.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:5
label: absent one remembered in ritual gesture
assigned_to:
- fig:1
- fig:7
basis: The friends are asked to remember the speaker or friend and to turn a glass
upside down when his turn comes.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:6
label: wine server
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The Saki or cup-bearer is associated with the passing of wine at the gathering.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:7
label: communal drinkers and rememberers
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The friends meet, drink wine together, and are told to remember the absent
friend.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: scheme of things
literal_form: the entire ordered scheme of things
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: heavens remade
literal_form: heavens abolished and another heaven constructed from the beginning
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: heart's desire
literal_form: the desired condition toward which the remade world or heaven is directed
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: sym:4
label: moon
literal_form: rising moon that waxes and wanes and later seeks absent people
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: sym:5
label: garden
literal_form: same garden through which the moon looks or seeks
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:6
label: wine in moonlight
literal_form: wine drunk in moonlight in the source quatrain
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:7
label: empty or inverted glass
literal_form: empty glass or goblet turned down or upside down when the absent friend's
turn comes
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:6
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:8
label: Mugh wine
literal_form: wine carried by the cup-bearer at the gathering
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Imagined remaking of cosmos
summary: The speaker imagines joining Love and the divine, grasping the whole scheme
of things, destroying it, and remolding it to fit the heart's desire; the accompanying
source version describes abolishing and reconstructing the heavens.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Moon seeking absent people in the garden
summary: The moon continues its cycles and looks or seeks through the same garden
after the present people are no longer there.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:3
label: Wine gathering and remembrance of the absent friend
summary: Friends or guests gather to drink wine, and the speaker asks that, when
his turn comes, they remember him by turning down an empty glass or goblet.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: world shattered and remade according to desire
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
basis: The speaker imagines grasping and shattering the scheme of things, or abolishing
and rebuilding the heavens, so that the heart's desire may be attained.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage presents an imagined wish rather than a narrated cosmogony
or mythic creation event; the taxonomy reference is thematic and should be reviewed.
- id: motif:2
label: impermanence under the recurring moon
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The moon's continuing cycle contrasts with human absence, and the source
quatrain advises present happiness because tomorrow is not guaranteed.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: This is a lyric wisdom theme rather than a developed mythic narrative.
- id: motif:3
label: ritualized remembrance through an empty cup
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: At a wine gathering, friends are asked to remember an absent friend by turning
down an empty glass or goblet when his turn arrives.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: The passage does not specify a formal ritual beyond the instructed commemorative
gesture.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage explicitly identifies the first quatrain as a translation from
C. 395, whose version also imagines God-like control of the heavens and a reconstructed
heaven for attaining the heart's desire.
claim_level: same_motif
target: C. 395
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The claim is limited to the anthology's stated source relationship
and the supplied translated excerpts.
- id: claim:2
claim: The moon-and-absence quatrain is explicitly said to be inspired by O. 5,
which likewise has the moon seek the speakers and not find them while advising
present enjoyment.
claim_level: same_motif
target: O. 5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:8
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The claim follows the passage's editorial note and does not establish
broader historical transmission beyond the cited anthology relationship.
- id: claim:3
claim: The empty-glass remembrance quatrain is explicitly taken from O. 83 and O.
84, which share the setting of friends drinking wine and remembering an absent
friend.
claim_level: same_motif
target: O. 83 and O. 84
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:9
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The claim is restricted to the supplied variants and does not infer
a wider motif history.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: XCIX, opening quatrain
quote_or_summary: The speaker addresses Love, imagines conspiring with Him to grasp
the whole scheme of things, shatter it, and remold it nearer to the heart's desire.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: XCIX, translated from C. 395
quote_or_summary: The source version says that with God-like control of the heavens,
the speaker would abolish the heavens and construct another heaven so that one
might be free and attain the heart's desire.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: C, opening quatrain
quote_or_summary: The rising moon will repeatedly wax and wane, look through the
same garden, and later look for the speaker or one person in vain.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: C, inspired by O. 5
quote_or_summary: The source version says no one can guarantee tomorrow, advises
making the lovesick heart happy now and drinking wine in moonlight, and says the
moon will seek the speakers long and not find them.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: CI, opening quatrain and O. 83
quote_or_summary: At a gathering among guests or friends drinking wine, the speaker
asks that when his turn comes, they turn down an empty glass or goblet and remember
their friend.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: CI, O. 84
quote_or_summary: Friends make a tryst, delight in one another, the cup-bearer carries
Mugh wine, and they are asked to remember a helpless one in their benediction.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain; summarized from supplied passage.
- id: ev:7
type: citation
locator: XCIX editorial note and references
quote_or_summary: The note states that the quatrain is translated from C. 395 and
lists references including C. 395.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain; citation from supplied passage.
- id: ev:8
type: citation
locator: C editorial note and references
quote_or_summary: The note states that the quatrain in its various forms is inspired
by O. 5 and lists references including O. 5.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain; citation from supplied passage.
- id: ev:9
type: citation
locator: CI editorial note and references
quote_or_summary: The note states that the quatrain is taken from O. 83 and 84 and
provides references for both.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain; citation from supplied passage.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: Literal extraction is based only on the supplied passage. Motif labels are
interpretive and should be reviewed, especially the mapping of cosmic remaking
to the available taxonomy.
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: |-
The requested locator label differs from the supplied passage headings, which include XCIX, C, and CI; extraction follows the supplied passage text and metadata without correction.
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