Comparative mythology corpus

Self Consuming Destructive Fire

1 appearances across 1 tradition groups.

Evidence

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TraditionSourcePassageConfidenceEvidenceRecord
Sufi The Confessions of Al Ghazzali THE AIM OF SCHOLASTIC THEOLOGY AND ITS RESULTS / DIVISIONS OF THE PHILOSOPHIC SCIENCES / SUFISM / THE REALITY OF INSPIRATION: ITS IMPORTANCE FOR THE HUMAN RACE; lines 1219-1307 medium The passage imagines a grain-small thing that can destroy a city and itself, identifies this as fire, and compares rejecting this unwitnessed effect to refusing belief in mysteries of the other life. record