Comparative mythology corpus

Beauty As A Decisive Temptation

1 appearances across 1 tradition groups.

Evidence

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TraditionSourcePassageConfidenceEvidenceRecord
Sufi The Persian Mystics: Jalálu'd-dín Rúmí THE LOVE OF THE BELOVED / THE LOVE OF THE SOUL AND THE LOVE OF THE BODY / DESTROY NOT EARTHLY BEAUTY: IT BEAUTIFIES THE SOUL / THE DEVIL MAKES USE OF THE BEAUTY OF WOMEN; lines 1755-1795 high God shows Iblis the beauty of women, said to deprive men of reason and self-control; Iblis claps, dances, and says he will prevail with these. record