Comparative mythology corpus

Self Preserving Concealment

1 appearances across 1 tradition groups.

Evidence

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TraditionSourcePassageConfidenceEvidenceRecord
Daoist Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer CHAPTER XXI. / CHAPTER XXII. / KNOWLEDGE TRAVELS NORTH. / CHAPTER XXIII.; lines 9790-9926 high Kêng Sang Ch'u uses images of a cart-swallowing beast exposed to snares and a boat-swallowing fish stranded for ants; he says the self-caring man hides, criticizes Yao and Shun, and says honoring virtue and fostering knowledge lead to emulation, theft, violence, and future cannibalism. record