batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l4869-l4936
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l4869-l4936
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
passage_locator:
label: STANZA / STANZA / STANZA / STANZA; lines 4869-4936
start: '4869'
end: '4936'
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 is an editorial note section listing variant readings for several
stanzas in different editions. The variants include images of a hair dividing
false and true, selfhood ceasing, a grape and marriage feast, the calendar and
year, a frail cup crumbling to dust, a flower dying, the soul returning as heaven
and hell, hell as the shadow of a soul on fire, visionary shapes around a sun-lit
lantern, and game pieces moved by a player.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: A variant line states that a hair divides the false and the true.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: A variant line says that a figure called He contrives, enacts, and beholds
Himself.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: A variant line addresses a You who will be You no more tomorrow.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: A variant line recommends merriment with the fruitful grape.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: A variant passage describes making carouse in a house for a new marriage.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: A variant passage refers to squaring the year to human compass by striking
from the calendar.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: A variant line states that a frail cup is crumbled into dust.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: A variant line states that a flower once blown dies forever.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: A variant says that after many days the speaker's soul returned and declared
itself heaven and hell.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:10
text: A variant line describes hell as the shadow of a soul on fire.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:11
text: A variant describes visionary shapes that come and go around a sun-illuminated
lantern.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:12
text: A variant describes powerless pieces of a game played by a He figure, and
another line says the pieces go right or left as the player strikes.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: He / Himself
description: A figure described as contriving, enacting, and beholding Himself,
and as playing a game with pieces.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:12
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: You
description: An addressed figure who is said to be You no more tomorrow.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: my Soul
description: The speaker's soul returns after many days and says, “Myself am Heav'n
and Hell.”
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Player
description: A player whose strike sends pieces right or left.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: impotent pieces
description: Pieces of a game described as powerless and moved by the player.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
roles:
- id: role:1
label: self-acting and observing agent
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The figure is described as contriving, enacting, beholding Himself, and playing
a game.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:12
- id: role:2
label: addressed self facing loss of identity
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The addressed You is said to become You no more.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:3
label: returning soul and speaker of identity claim
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The soul returns after many days and speaks a statement identifying itself
with heaven and hell.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:4
label: game mover
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The player determines whether pieces go right or left by striking.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: role:5
label: powerless game pieces
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The pieces are called impotent and move according to the player.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: hair as boundary
literal_form: a hair dividing the false and true
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: fruitful grape
literal_form: fruitful grape
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:3
label: marriage carouse
literal_form: new marriage and carouse in a house
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:4
label: year and calendar
literal_form: year squared to human compass; calendar altered by striking
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:5
label: frail cup and dust
literal_form: frail cup crumbled into dust
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:6
label: flower that dies
literal_form: flower once blown dies forever
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:7
label: heaven and hell in the soul
literal_form: soul declaring itself heaven and hell
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: sym:8
label: soul on fire
literal_form: soul on fire casting hell as shadow
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: sym:9
label: sun-illuminated lantern
literal_form: sun-illuminated lantern around which visionary shapes come and go
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: sym:10
label: game, pieces, and player
literal_form: impotent pieces in a game moved right or left by a player
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Editorially listed variants of boundary and identity
summary: The passage lists variant lines about a hair dividing false and true, a
self-acting He, and a You who will no longer be You.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:2
label: Merriment, marriage, and calendrical adjustment
summary: The variants mention merriment with the grape, a house carouse for a new
marriage, and altering the calendar to fit the year to human measure.
figure_refs: []
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: scene:3
label: Images of mortality and returning soul
summary: The variants describe a cup crumbling into dust, a flower dying forever,
a soul returning as heaven and hell, and hell as the shadow of a soul on fire.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:6
- sym:7
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: scene:4
label: Visionary lantern and game pieces
summary: The variants describe visionary shapes moving around a sun-lit lantern
and powerless game pieces moved right or left by a player.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:9
- sym:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:12
- ev:13
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: thin boundary between false and true
taxonomy_refs:
- duality
- wisdom
basis: The passage explicitly states that a hair divides false and true, presenting
a minimal boundary between opposed truth values.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: high
cautions: The passage is an editorial variant note rather than a full narrative
episode.
- id: motif:2
label: dissolution or transformation of selfhood
taxonomy_refs:
- annihilation_union
basis: A variant addresses a You who will be You no more; another has the soul return
and identify itself as heaven and hell.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:9
confidence: medium
cautions: The text does not explain the metaphysical doctrine behind these lines
in this passage.
- id: motif:3
label: mortality through fragile objects and flowers
taxonomy_refs:
- death_rebirth
basis: The frail cup crumbles into dust and the flower that has bloomed dies forever.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
confidence: medium
cautions: The evidence supports mortality imagery, but not an explicit rebirth sequence
in this excerpt.
- id: motif:4
label: inner heaven and hell
taxonomy_refs:
- duality
basis: The soul declares itself heaven and hell, and hell is described as the shadow
of a soul on fire.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: No explicit divine judgment scene is present in this passage.
- id: motif:5
label: world as game controlled by player
taxonomy_refs:
- duality
basis: Humanlike pieces are described as impotent pieces in a game, moving right
or left according to the player's strike.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:13
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage does not identify the player or give a complete cosmological
explanation.
- id: motif:6
label: human measurement of time
taxonomy_refs:
- seasonal_cycle
basis: A variant refers to squaring the year to human compass and striking from
the calendar.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage gives only a brief calendrical image, not a full seasonal
myth.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 4873, 4879
quote_or_summary: "“A Hair, they say, divides the False and True.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 4883-4885
quote_or_summary: "“He does Himself contrive, enact, behold.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:3
type: quote
locator: lines 4887-4889
quote_or_summary: "“To-morrow, when You shall be You no more.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:4
type: quote
locator: lines 4891-4893
quote_or_summary: "“Better be merry with the fruitful Grape.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:5
type: quote
locator: lines 4895-4898
quote_or_summary: "“You know, my Friends, how bravely in my House / For a new Marriage
I did make Carouse.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:6
type: quote
locator: lines 4900-4903
quote_or_summary: "“Have squared the Year to Human Compass” and “by striking from
the Calendar.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:7
type: quote
locator: lines 4905-4907
quote_or_summary: "“When the frail Cup is crumbled into Dust!”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:8
type: quote
locator: lines 4909-4911
quote_or_summary: "“The Flower that once is blown for ever dies.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:9
type: quote
locator: lines 4917-4920
quote_or_summary: "“And after many days my Soul return'd / And said, «Behold, Myself
am Heav'n and Hell.»”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:10
type: quote
locator: lines 4922-4924
quote_or_summary: "“And Hell the Shadow of a Soul on fire.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:11
type: quote
locator: lines 4926-4929
quote_or_summary: "“visionary Shapes that come and go / Round with this Sun-illumin'd
Lantern held.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:12
type: quote
locator: lines 4931-4933
quote_or_summary: "“Impotent Pieces of the Game He plays.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:13
type: quote
locator: lines 4935-4936
quote_or_summary: "“But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes.”"
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: The passage consists of editorial variant excerpts rather than a continuous
mythic narrative; motifs are inferred only from the literal variant lines supplied.
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 comparisons were added; taxonomy references are limited to supplied motif families and symbols.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg__l4869-l4936
passage_sha256=cedfb97f24b726c9669db8a94b06153dc8b2af861cd24c52f933461dbabac308