Beauty Causing Involuntary Self Wounding
2
Beauty Paired With Pain (sweetness With Sting)
1
Beloved As Wounder And Healer
1
Predatory Wealth As A Sting
1
Apparent Pleasure As Shadow
1
Beloved Wounds The Hero During A Quarrel
1
Corruption Through Sweet Pleasure
1
Faultless Beauty Defying Criticism
1
Flower As Model Of Endurance Through Loss
1
Ideal Beauty As Comparative Standard
1
Comparative mythology corpus
Beauty Paired with Pain and Paradox
17 tagged occurrences across 6 traditions.
The aesthetic and spiritual insight that beauty and suffering, sweetness and danger, are inseparable. The rose and the thorn. The wisdom that comes through wounding.
17total occurrences
16child motifs
6traditions present
750 BCE to 1200 CEknown era range
These counts are generated from tagged extraction evidence. Similarity means structural or thematic recurrence unless a source record explicitly supports historical contact.
Child Motifs
| Child Motif | Relationship | Occurrences | Traditions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beauty Causing Involuntary Self Wounding | narrower_than | 2 | 1 |
| Beauty Paired With Pain (sweetness With Sting) | child | 1 | 1 |
| Beloved As Wounder And Healer | symbolic_variant | 1 | 1 |
| Predatory Wealth As A Sting | symbolic_variant | 1 | 1 |
| Apparent Pleasure As Shadow | symbolic_variant | 1 | 1 |
| Beloved Wounds The Hero During A Quarrel | functional_variant | 1 | 1 |
| Corruption Through Sweet Pleasure | symbolic_variant | 1 | 1 |
| Faultless Beauty Defying Criticism | symbolic_variant | 1 | 1 |
| Flower As Model Of Endurance Through Loss | symbolic_variant | 1 | 1 |
| Ideal Beauty As Comparative Standard | narrower_than | 1 | 1 |
| Maker Creates And Destroys A Beautiful Vessel | symbolic_variant | 1 | 1 |
| Outward Beauty As Cause Of Destruction | symbolic_variant | 1 | 1 |
| Seductive Sweetness Paired With Hidden Danger | symbolic_variant | 1 | 1 |
| Withered Rose As Image Of Lost Beauty | symbolic_variant | 1 | 1 |
| Wounds Figured As Flowers | symbolic_variant | 1 | 1 |
| Youth As A Vanished Bird | symbolic_variant | 1 | 1 |
Tradition Frequency
Relative bars compare traditions inside this family.How Each Tradition Tells It
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Sufi
How This Tradition Tells It
8 occurrences
How This Tradition Tells It
In Sufi, this family appears through Beloved As Wounder And Healer (1), Flower As Model Of Endurance Through Loss (1), Maker Creates And Destroys A Beautiful Vessel (1). The strongest concentration is currently in The Mesnevi and The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam. This is a deterministic summary of 8 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.
| Text | Line Range | Confidence | Child Motif | Extraction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poems from the Divan of Hafiz | XXXIII / XXXIV / XXXVI / XXXVII; lines 2672-2709 | high | Beloved As Wounder And Healer | record |
| The Mesnevi | OF QONYA. / PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE.; lines 5750-5874 | high | Outward Beauty As Cause Of Destruction | record |
| The Mesnevi | OF QONYA. / PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE.; lines 6445-6544 | medium | Seductive Sweetness Paired With Hidden Danger | record |
| The Mesnevi | XIII. / XVII. / THE END. / FOOTNOTES:; lines 15639-15771 | medium | Wounds Figured As Flowers | record |
| The Persian Mystics: Jalálu'd-dín Rúmí | SEPARATION / A MOTHER WHOSE CHILDREN WERE IN THE BELOVED'S KEEPING / THE OPTIMISTIC ROSE / THE TRUE MOSQUE; lines 2235-2267 | high | Flower As Model Of Endurance Through Loss | record |
| The Persian Mystics: Jámí | FIFTH GARDEN / A LOVERS' DIALOGUE / A KIND FRIEND / A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN; lines 2013-2038 | high | Withered Rose As Image Of Lost Beauty | record |
| The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | E.H. WHINFIELD, M.A. / INTRODUCTION / E.H. WHINFIELD / QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 7161-7399 | high | Youth As A Vanished Bird | record |
| The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam | LXXVII. / LXXX. / LXXXI. / LXXXIV.; lines 4015-4029 | high | Maker Creates And Destroys A Beautiful Vessel | record |
Greek
How This Tradition Tells It
3 occurrences
How This Tradition Tells It
In Greek, this family appears through Predatory Wealth As A Sting (1), Apparent Pleasure As Shadow (1), Corruption Through Sweet Pleasure (1). The strongest concentration is currently in The Republic. This is a deterministic summary of 3 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.
| Text | Line Range | Confidence | Child Motif | Extraction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Republic | BOOK V. / BOOK VI. / BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII.; lines 20975-21105 | high | Predatory Wealth As A Sting | record |
| The Republic | BOOK V. / BOOK VI. / BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII.; lines 21107-21266 | high | Corruption Through Sweet Pleasure | record |
| The Republic | BOOK VI. / BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII. / BOOK IX.; lines 22466-22655 | medium | Apparent Pleasure As Shadow | record |
Celtic Irish
How This Tradition Tells It
2 occurrences
How This Tradition Tells It
In Celtic Irish, this family appears through Beloved Wounds The Hero During A Quarrel (1), Ideal Beauty As Comparative Standard (1). The strongest concentration is currently in Gods and Fighting Men and Heroic Romances of Ireland. This is a deterministic summary of 2 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.
| Text | Line Range | Confidence | Child Motif | Extraction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gods and Fighting Men | CHAPTER II. THE PURSUIT / CHAPTER III. THE GREEN CHAMPIONS / CHAPTER IV. THE WOOD OF DUBHROS / CHAPTER V. THE QUARREL; lines 12435-12549 | high | Beloved Wounds The Hero During A Quarrel | record |
| Heroic Romances of Ireland | PAGE 10 / PAGE 11 / PAGE 12 / PAGE 13; lines 6594-6616 | medium | Ideal Beauty As Comparative Standard | record |
Islamic
How This Tradition Tells It
2 occurrences
How This Tradition Tells It
In Islamic, this family appears through Beauty Causing Involuntary Self Wounding (2). The strongest concentration is currently in The Koran (Al-Qur'an). This is a deterministic summary of 2 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.
| Text | Line Range | Confidence | Child Motif | Extraction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 20308-20401 | high | Beauty Causing Involuntary Self Wounding | record |
| The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER XI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XII. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 20403-20499 | medium | Beauty Causing Involuntary Self Wounding | record |
Greek/Roman
How This Tradition Tells It
1 occurrences
How This Tradition Tells It
In Greek/Roman, this family appears through Faultless Beauty Defying Criticism (1). The strongest concentration is currently in Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome. This is a deterministic summary of 1 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.
| Text | Line Range | Confidence | Child Motif | Extraction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | TYCHE (FORTUNA). / FORTUNA. / ANANKE (NECESSITAS). / MOMUS.; lines 4809-4823 | medium | Faultless Beauty Defying Criticism | record |
Persian
How This Tradition Tells It
1 occurrences
How This Tradition Tells It
In Persian, this family appears through Beauty Paired With Pain (sweetness With Sting) (1). The strongest concentration is currently in Persian Literature, Volume 1. This is a deterministic summary of 1 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.
| Text | Line Range | Confidence | Child Motif | Extraction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Persian Literature, Volume 1 | LXXXVI / LXXXVII / LXXXVIII / CXXIX; lines 16463-16489 | high | Beauty Paired With Pain (sweetness With Sting) | record |
Shared Structure
The convergence is broad rather than concentrated in one child motif: traditions repeatedly tag passages into this family while emphasizing locally different scenes.
Local Emphasis
Greek leans toward Predatory Wealth As A Sting; Islamic leans toward Beauty Causing Involuntary Self Wounding; Persian leans toward Beauty Paired With Pain (sweetness With Sting); Sufi leans toward Beloved As Wounder And Healer; Celtic Irish leans toward Beloved Wounds The Hero During A Quarrel; Greek/Roman leans toward Faultless Beauty Defying Criticism.
Reading Rule
structuralthematiccontact not inferred
Timeline
Approximate eras from the cultural timeline index.ca. 750-400 BCE
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
Greek - Archaic Greek poetic and hymnic tradition - 3 tagged occurrences
ca. 750-650 BCE
The Iliad
Greek - Archaic Greek heroic epic tradition - 3 tagged occurrences
ca. 610-632 CE
The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
Islamic - Early Islamic revelation corpus - 2 tagged occurrences
ca. 800-1200 CE source traditions; 1905 retelling
Gods and Fighting Men
Celtic Irish - Medieval Irish mythic and heroic material - 2 tagged occurrences