AWA Ancient Wisdom Atlas texts, motifs, patterns

Comparative mythology corpus

Sacred Substance and Divine Intoxication

78 tagged occurrences across 12 traditions.

Sacred food, drink, plants, potions, and consciousness-altering substances used in ritual, myth, or mystical practice. Includes soma, the mead of poetry, wine, kykeon, manna, ambrosia, sacred honey, divine nectar, ritual feasting, and forbidden fruit as substance.

78total occurrences
77child motifs
12traditions present
800 BCE to 1849 CEknown era range
Reading Note

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 MotifRelationshipOccurrencesTraditions
Inexhaustible Food Supply functional_variant 2 2
Animal Helper Obtains Magical Ingredient functional_variant 1 1
Animal Part As Sacred Food, Luck Object, Divinatory Object, Or Token symbolic_variant 1 1
Conjured Banquet Before Feasting ritual_variant 1 1
Cosmic Nourishment By Milk Giving Animal child 1 1
Enchanted Drink Causing Sleep At A Feast functional_variant 1 1
Feast Drink Prompting Communal Song functional_variant 1 1
Female Provider Sustains Warriors With Milk And Healing functional_variant 1 1
Food Of The Otherworld Binds The Eater functional_variant 1 1
Healing Substance As Divine Provision functional_variant 1 1
Ingestion Transfers Qualities Of The Consumed Being functional_variant 1 1
Intoxicant As Cause Of Social And Ritual Disorder narrower_than 1 1
Intoxication Mediated Reconciliation functional_variant 1 1
Miraculous Food And Water Provision functional_variant 1 1
Miraculous Or Divine Provision Of Food functional_variant 1 1
Miraculous Provision For A Wandering Community functional_variant 1 1
Miraculous Provision In Wilderness functional_variant 1 1
Origin Of Brewing child 1 1
Paradisal Food Resembling Earthly Food narrower_than 1 1
Pastoral Abundance Through Honeyed Waters And Flowing Milk functional_variant 1 1
Poetic Inspiration Mediated By Divine Beings And Sacred Water symbolic_variant 1 1
Saintly Transformation Of Harmful Substance functional_variant 1 1
Sleep Induced By Sacred Plant Bearing Deity child 1 1
Unfailing Otherworldly Food And Drink symbolic_variant 1 1
Wine As Antidote To Worldly Grief symbolic_variant 1 1
Wine As Consolation And Challenge To Piety symbolic_variant 1 1
Wine As Relief From Existential Misery Or Memory symbolic_variant 1 1
Wine Or Vine As Ruby Like Outpouring symbolic_variant 1 1
Wonder Animal As Drink Provider functional_variant 1 1
Alchemical Transformation Through The Grape symbolic_variant 1 1
Angelic Bearer Offers Transformative Drink functional_variant 1 1
Ascetic Discipline Undone By Pleasure And Wine symbolic_variant 1 1
Binding Underworld Food functional_variant 1 1
Contested Sacred Wine Imagery symbolic_variant 1 1
Cosmic Abundance Gathered To One Place broader_label 1 1
Deity Incarnate In The Intoxicated Votary ritual_variant 1 1
Demon Obstructing Communication And Expelled By Wine ritual_variant 1 1
Divine Foreknowledge Used To Defend Forbidden Or Disputed Drinking functional_variant 1 1
Divine Helper Provides Protective Antidote Before Magical Trial functional_variant 1 1
Divine Nectar alias 1 1
Divine Nourishment Sustains A Hero Before Battle functional_variant 1 1
Drink Wine In Response To Mortality symbolic_variant 1 1
Failed Trial Ingredients Before Successful Brewing functional_variant 1 1
Healing By Costly Magical Ointment functional_variant 1 1
Healing Magic Applied To Battle Wounds functional_variant 1 1
Heavenly Banquet Or Food As Sign functional_variant 1 1
Hospitality As Trap Through Enchanted Food Or Drink functional_variant 1 1
Immortality Substance Withheld And Destroyed functional_variant 1 1
Improvised Intoxicating Drink As Relief During Captivity functional_variant 1 1
Intoxicant As Precious But Reputation Damaging Force symbolic_variant 1 1
Intoxication As Spirit Possession Or Inspiration functional_variant 1 1
Magic Drink Causing Forgetfulness Of A Beloved functional_variant 1 1
Magic Potion Leading To Unwanted Marriage functional_variant 1 1
Magical Wedding Feast Provisioning Objects functional_variant 1 1
Miraculous Abundance Of Sacred Fruit functional_variant 1 1
Miraculous Drink Filling Empty Vessels functional_variant 1 1
Miraculous Inexhaustible Provider functional_variant 1 1
Moderate Communal Feast With Hymns To The Gods ritual_variant 1 1
Mythic Exemplum Of Drunken Transgression And Punishment functional_variant 1 1
Posthumous Intoxication From Buried Remains symbolic_variant 1 1
Precious Intoxicating Goods Beyond Ordinary Exchange functional_variant 1 1
Protective Magical Plant Supplied By A Divine Helper functional_variant 1 1
Rejuvenating Food Preserves Divine Youth symbolic_variant 1 1
Ritual Abundance And Communal Feeding ritual_variant 1 1
Ritual Forgetting As Cure For Love And Jealousy functional_variant 1 1
Ritualized Healing With Water, Herbs, Milk, Washing, And Wound Extraction functional_variant 1 1
Rivers Of Blessed Abundance symbolic_variant 1 1
Sacred Tree Substance Inducing Inspiration functional_variant 1 1
Sorrow Banishing Drug Mixed Into Communal Wine functional_variant 1 1
Wild Revelry In A God's Retinue ritual_variant 1 1
Wine As Answer To Mortality And Sorrow symbolic_variant 1 1
Wine As Blood Of Divine Enemies symbolic_variant 1 1
Wine As Consolation And Contested Sacred Pleasure symbolic_variant 1 1
Wine As Present Tense Spiritual Or Poetic Focus symbolic_variant 1 1
Wine Counsel In A Transient World symbolic_variant 1 1
Wine Cup Against Grief Over Possession And Lack symbolic_variant 1 1
Youth Renewing Divine Food symbolic_variant 1 1

Tradition Frequency

Relative bars compare traditions inside this family.
Sufi 20 Islamic 10 Celtic Irish 8 Greek/Roman 8 Comparative 6 Finnish/Karelian 6 Greek 6 Hindu 4 Norse 4 Celtic Welsh 3 Japanese 2 Islamicate Folklore 1

How Each Tradition Tells It

Evidence is collapsed by default so the page stays scannable.
Sufi

How This Tradition Tells It

20 occurrences

In Sufi, this family appears through Saintly Transformation Of Harmful Substance (1), Wine As Antidote To Worldly Grief (1), Wine As Consolation And Challenge To Piety (1). The strongest concentration is currently in The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam and The Mesnevi. This is a deterministic summary of 20 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.

TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
The Mesnevi CHAPTER III. / CHAPTER IV. / CHAPTER V. / CHAPTER VI.; lines 4500-4638 high Inexhaustible Food Supply record
The Mesnevi XIII. / XVII. / THE END. / FOOTNOTES:; lines 15089-15259 medium Saintly Transformation Of Harmful Substance record
The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam CVII. / VARIATIONS / OMAR KHAYYAM / STANZA; lines 4667-4708 medium Wine Or Vine As Ruby Like Outpouring record
The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam E.H. WHINFIELD, M.A. / INTRODUCTION / E.H. WHINFIELD / QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 10606-10803 high Wine As Consolation And Challenge To Piety record
The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam IN THE FIRST EDITION. / XXXIII. / XXXVII. / IN THE SECOND EDITION.; lines 4516-4537 medium Wine Cup Against Grief Over Possession And Lack record
The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam LXVII. / LXVIII. / LXIX. / LXXI.; lines 1529-1550 low Precious Intoxicating Goods Beyond Ordinary Exchange record
The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam LXXXIX. / XCII. / XCIII. / XCIV.; lines 4212-4244 high Intoxicant As Precious But Reputation Damaging Force record
The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam LXXXVII. / LXXXVIII. / LXXXIX. / XCII.; lines 4175-4189 high Posthumous Intoxication From Buried Remains record
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TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam LXXXVIII. / LXXXIX. / XCII. / XCIII.; lines 4192-4209 medium Ascetic Discipline Undone By Pleasure And Wine record
The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam OF THE / QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM / OMAR KHAYYAM / ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA; lines 893-966 high Contested Sacred Wine Imagery record
The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM / MONSIEUR J.B. NICOLAS / THE QUATRAINS OF KHAYYAM / THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 11733-11935 high Wine Counsel In A Transient World record
The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM / MONSIEUR J.B. NICOLAS / THE QUATRAINS OF KHAYYAM / THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 12128-12323 high Wine As Consolation And Contested Sacred Pleasure record
The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM / MONSIEUR J.B. NICOLAS / THE QUATRAINS OF KHAYYAM / THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 12913-13101 high Wine As Answer To Mortality And Sorrow record
The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM / MONSIEUR J.B. NICOLAS / THE QUATRAINS OF KHAYYAM / THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM; lines 14624-14819 high Wine As Antidote To Worldly Grief record
The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam XLIII. / XLIV. / XLVIII. / LVIII.; lines 3456-3549 high Alchemical Transformation Through The Grape record
The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam XLIII. / XLIV. / XLVIII. / LVIII.; lines 3456-3549 high Divine Foreknowledge Used To Defend Forbidden Or Disputed Drinking record
The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam XXVI. / XXVII. / XXVIII. / XXIX.; lines 2774-2823 high Wine As Relief From Existential Misery Or Memory record
The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam XXXI. / XXXII. / XXXIV. / XXXV.; lines 2932-2956 high Drink Wine In Response To Mortality record
The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam XXXIX. / XLII. / XLIII. / XLIV.; lines 1307-1336 medium Angelic Bearer Offers Transformative Drink record
The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam XXXV. / XXXVI. / XXXVII. / XLII.; lines 3100-3123 medium Wine As Present Tense Spiritual Or Poetic Focus record
Islamic

How This Tradition Tells It

10 occurrences

In Islamic, this family appears through Healing Substance As Divine Provision (1), Intoxicant As Cause Of Social And Ritual Disorder (1), Miraculous Food And Water Provision (1). The strongest concentration is currently in The Koran (Al-Qur'an). This is a deterministic summary of 10 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.

TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
The Koran (Al-Qur'an) CHAPTER I. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD / CHAPTER II. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 9025-9084 high Miraculous Provision In Wilderness record
The Koran (Al-Qur'an) CHAPTER XV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XVI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 22108-22189 medium Healing Substance As Divine Provision record
The Koran (Al-Qur'an) IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / FINIS / AN INDEX / OF THE; lines 40056-40155 medium Miraculous Or Divine Provision Of Food record
The Koran (Al-Qur'an) PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 17069-17180 high Miraculous Provision For A Wandering Community record
The Koran (Al-Qur'an) PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 18865-18984 high Miraculous Food And Water Provision record
The Koran (Al-Qur'an) PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 20008-20136 medium Paradisal Food Resembling Earthly Food record
The Koran (Al-Qur'an) PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 26429-26545 high Heavenly Banquet Or Food As Sign record
The Koran (Al-Qur'an) SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 4797-4845 high Rivers Of Blessed Abundance record
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TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
The Koran (Al-Qur'an) SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III / SECTION IV.; lines 5003-5059 medium Miraculous Abundance Of Sacred Fruit record
The Koran (Al-Qur'an) SECTION III / SECTION IV. / SECTION V. / OF CERTAIN NEGATIVE PRECEPTS IN THE KORN.; lines 5925-6004 high Intoxicant As Cause Of Social And Ritual Disorder record
Celtic Irish

How This Tradition Tells It

8 occurrences

In Celtic Irish, this family appears through Enchanted Drink Causing Sleep At A Feast (1), Female Provider Sustains Warriors With Milk And Healing (1), Unfailing Otherworldly Food And Drink (1). The strongest concentration is currently in Gods and Fighting Men and Heroic Romances of Ireland. This is a deterministic summary of 8 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.

TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
Gods and Fighting Men BOOK TWO: FINN'S HELPERS / CHAPTER I. THE LAD OF THE SKINS / CHAPTER II. BLACK, BROWN, AND GREY / CHAPTER III. THE HOUND; lines 6845-6937 high Miraculous Drink Filling Empty Vessels record
Gods and Fighting Men BOOK TWO: FINN'S HELPERS / CHAPTER I. THE LAD OF THE SKINS / CHAPTER II. BLACK, BROWN, AND GREY / CHAPTER III. THE HOUND; lines 6939-7029 high Wonder Animal As Drink Provider record
Gods and Fighting Men CHAPTER II. THE BATTLE OF TAILLTIN / BOOK FOUR: THE EVER-LIVING LIVING ONES. / CHAPTER I. BODB DEARG / CHAPTER II. THE DAGDA; lines 3051-3156 high Unfailing Otherworldly Food And Drink record
Gods and Fighting Men CHAPTER III. CONN CRITHER / CHAPTER IV. GLAS, SON OF BREMEN / CHAPTER V. THE HELP OF THE MEN OF DEA / CHAPTER VI. THE MARCH OF THE FIANNA; lines 7458-7504 high Female Provider Sustains Warriors With Milk And Healing record
Gods and Fighting Men CHAPTER IV. THE HARD SERVANT / CHAPTER V. THE HOUSE OF THE QUICKEN TREES / BOOK SEVEN: DIARMUID AND GRANIA. / CHAPTER I. THE FLIGHT FROM TEAMHAIR; lines 11428-11494 high Enchanted Drink Causing Sleep At A Feast record
Gods and Fighting Men CHAPTER IV. THE HOSPITALITY OF CUANNA'S HOUSE / CHAPTER V. CAT-HEADS AND DOG-HEADS / CHAPTER VI. LOMNA'S HEAD / CHAPTER VII. ILBREC OF ESS RUADH; lines 9275-9372 high Ritualized Healing With Water, Herbs, Milk, Washing, And Wound Extraction record
Heroic Romances of Ireland FROM THE BOOK OF LEINSTER (TWELFTH-CENTURY MS.) / THE SICK-BED OF CUCHULAIN / INTRODUCTION / THE SICK-BED OF CUCHULAIN; lines 3753-3880 high Ritual Forgetting As Cure For Love And Jealousy record
The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge XVIII / HERE NOW IS TOLD THE MISTHROW AT BELACH EOIN. / HERE NOW FOLLOWETH THE DISGUISING OF TAMON / HERE NOW COMETH THE HEAD-PLACE OF FERCHU; lines 10827-10946 high Healing Magic Applied To Battle Wounds record
Greek/Roman

How This Tradition Tells It

8 occurrences

In Greek/Roman, this family appears through Food Of The Otherworld Binds The Eater (1), Intoxication Mediated Reconciliation (1), Poetic Inspiration Mediated By Divine Beings And Sacred Water (1). The strongest concentration is currently in Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome. This is a deterministic summary of 8 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.

TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE. / THE SIEGE OF TROY. / RETURN OF THE GREEKS FROM TROY.; lines 10110-10199 high Divine Helper Provides Protective Antidote Before Magical Trial record
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome ALCMAEON AND THE NECKLACE. / THE HERACLIDAE. / THE SIEGE OF TROY. / RETURN OF THE GREEKS FROM TROY.; lines 10110-10199 high Hospitality As Trap Through Enchanted Food Or Drink record
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome BRAURONIAN ARTEMIS. / SELENE-ARTEMIS. / DIANA. / HEPHAESTUS (VULCAN).; lines 3109-3194 high Intoxication Mediated Reconciliation record
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome EROS (CUPID, AMOR) AND PSYCHE. / HYMEN. / IRIS (THE RAINBOW). / HEBE (JUVENTAS).; lines 5009-5031 high Youth Renewing Divine Food record
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome JUVENTAS. / GANYMEDES. / THE MUSES. / PEGASUS.; lines 5159-5187 high Poetic Inspiration Mediated By Divine Beings And Sacred Water record
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome NEMESIS. / NYX (NOX). / THANATOS (MORS) AND HYPNUS (SOMNUS). / MORPHEUS.; lines 4603-4614 medium Sleep Induced By Sacred Plant Bearing Deity record
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome PALLAS-ATHENE (MINERVA). / MINERVA. / THEMIS. / VESTA.; lines 1776-1867 high Food Of The Otherworld Binds The Eater record
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome THE WINDS. / PAN (FAUNUS). / FAUNUS. / THE SATYRS.; lines 5600-5633 high Wild Revelry In A God's Retinue record
Comparative

How This Tradition Tells It

6 occurrences

In Comparative, this family appears through Animal Part As Sacred Food, Luck Object, Divinatory Object, Or Token (1), Ingestion Transfers Qualities Of The Consumed Being (1), Deity Incarnate In The Intoxicated Votary (1). The strongest concentration is currently in The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) and The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2). This is a deterministic summary of 6 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.

TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) CHAPTER I. THE KING OF THE WOOD. / MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE.; lines 4464-4506 high Deity Incarnate In The Intoxicated Votary record
The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) CHAPTER I. THE KING OF THE WOOD. / MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE.; lines 4464-4506 high Intoxication As Spirit Possession Or Inspiration record
The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) CHAPTER I. THE KING OF THE WOOD. / MACAULAY. / CHAPTER II. THE PERILS OF THE SOUL. / HEINE.; lines 4464-4506 high Wine As Blood Of Divine Enemies record
The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) PREFACE. / J. G. FRAZER. / CHAPTER I. THE KING OF THE WOOD. / MACAULAY.; lines 1029-1111 medium Sacred Tree Substance Inducing Inspiration record
The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) CONTENTS / NOTE. OFFERINGS OF FIRST-FRUITS. / INDEX. / FOOTNOTES; lines 13255-13369 high Animal Part As Sacred Food, Luck Object, Divinatory Object, Or Token record
The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 2061-2136 high Ingestion Transfers Qualities Of The Consumed Being record
Finnish/Karelian

How This Tradition Tells It

6 occurrences

In Finnish/Karelian, this family appears through Animal Helper Obtains Magical Ingredient (1), Conjured Banquet Before Feasting (1), Feast Drink Prompting Communal Song (1). The strongest concentration is currently in Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland. This is a deterministic summary of 6 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.

TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 16331-16514 high Conjured Banquet Before Feasting record
Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 17813-17992 high Pastoral Abundance Through Honeyed Waters And Flowing Milk record
Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 11136-11308 medium Failed Trial Ingredients Before Successful Brewing record
Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 11310-11502 medium Animal Helper Obtains Magical Ingredient record
Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 11310-11502 high Origin Of Brewing record
Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 11875-12035 medium Feast Drink Prompting Communal Song record
Greek

How This Tradition Tells It

6 occurrences

In Greek, this family appears through Binding Underworld Food (1), Divine Nourishment Sustains A Hero Before Battle (1), Moderate Communal Feast With Hymns To The Gods (1). The strongest concentration is currently in The Odyssey and Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica. This is a deterministic summary of 6 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.

TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica DOUBTFUL FRAGMENTS / THE HOMERIC HYMNS / I. TO DIONYSUS 2501 / II. TO DEMETER; lines 5445-5542 high Binding Underworld Food record
The Iliad THE GRIEF OF ACHILLES, AND NEW ARMOUR MADE HIM BY VULCAN. / BOOK XIX. / ARGUMENT. / THE RECONCILIATION OF ACHILLES AND AGAMEMNON.; lines 18608-18748 high Divine Nourishment Sustains A Hero Before Battle record
The Odyssey BOOK II / BOOK III / TELEMACHUS VISITS NESTOR AT PYLOS. / BOOK IV; lines 1663-1760 high Sorrow Banishing Drug Mixed Into Communal Wine record
The Odyssey BOOK VIII / BOOK IX / BOOK X / AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONES, CIRCE.; lines 4492-4586 high Protective Magical Plant Supplied By A Divine Helper record
The Odyssey BOOK XVIII / BOOK XIX / BOOK XX / BOOK XXI; lines 9416-9503 high Mythic Exemplum Of Drunken Transgression And Punishment record
The Republic THE REPUBLIC. / PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE. / BOOK I. / BOOK II.; lines 10980-11113 medium Moderate Communal Feast With Hymns To The Gods record
Hindu

How This Tradition Tells It

4 occurrences

In Hindu, this family appears through Cosmic Abundance Gathered To One Place (1), Divine Nectar (1), Miraculous Inexhaustible Provider (1). The strongest concentration is currently in The Ramayan of Valmiki. This is a deterministic summary of 4 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.

TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
The Ramayan of Valmiki Canto LXXXII. The Departure. / Canto LXXXIII. The Journey Begun. / Canto LXXXV. Guha And Bharat. / Canto XC. The Hermitage.; lines 22557-22607 medium Cosmic Abundance Gathered To One Place record
The Ramayan of Valmiki Canto X. Rishyasring Invited. / Canto XI. The Sacrifice Decreed. / Canto XII. The Sacrifice Begun. / Canto XIII. The Sacrifice Finished.; lines 2617-2782 high Ritual Abundance And Communal Feeding record
The Ramayan of Valmiki Canto XLI. Kapil. / Canto XLV. The Quest Of The Amrit. / Canto XLVII. Sumati. / Canto L. Janak.; lines 6824-6999 high Miraculous Inexhaustible Provider record
The Ramayan of Valmiki H. H. WILSON. / THE SUPPLIANT DOVE. / INDEX OF PRINCIPAL NAMES / FOOTNOTES; lines 62565-62694 medium Divine Nectar record
Norse

How This Tradition Tells It

4 occurrences

In Norse, this family appears through Cosmic Nourishment By Milk Giving Animal (1), Magic Drink Causing Forgetfulness Of A Beloved (1), Magic Potion Leading To Unwanted Marriage (1). The strongest concentration is currently in Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas. This is a deterministic summary of 4 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.

TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas CHAPTER IV: THOR / CHAPTER V: TYR / CHAPTER VI: BRAGI / CHAPTER VII: IDUN; lines 3991-4133 high Rejuvenating Food Preserves Divine Youth record
Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas CHAPTER XXIII: THE GIANTS / CHAPTER XXIV: THE DWARFS / CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES / CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA; lines 10215-10329 high Magic Drink Causing Forgetfulness Of A Beloved record
Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas CHAPTER XXIII: THE GIANTS / CHAPTER XXIV: THE DWARFS / CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES / CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA; lines 10571-10664 high Magic Potion Leading To Unwanted Marriage record
Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas CONTENTS / LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING; lines 328-454 high Cosmic Nourishment By Milk Giving Animal record
Celtic Welsh

How This Tradition Tells It

3 occurrences

In Celtic Welsh, this family appears through Demon Obstructing Communication And Expelled By Wine (1), Healing By Costly Magical Ointment (1), Magical Wedding Feast Provisioning Objects (1). The strongest concentration is currently in The Mabinogion. This is a deterministic summary of 3 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.

TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
The Mabinogion C. E. G. / THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN / PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC / GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN; lines 4603-4735 high Magical Wedding Feast Provisioning Objects record
The Mabinogion CONTENTS / INTRODUCTION / C. E. G. / THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN; lines 996-1084 high Healing By Costly Magical Ointment record
The Mabinogion THE DREAM OF RHONABWY / PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED / THE DREAM OF MAXEN WLEDIG / HERE IS THE STORY OF LLUDD AND LLEVELYS; lines 8432-8528 high Demon Obstructing Communication And Expelled By Wine record
Japanese

How This Tradition Tells It

2 occurrences

In Japanese, this family appears through Immortality Substance Withheld And Destroyed (1), Inexhaustible Food Supply (1). The strongest concentration is currently in Japanese Fairy Tales. This is a deterministic summary of 2 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.

TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
Japanese Fairy Tales COMPILED BY / PREFACE / JAPANESE FAIRY TALES / MY LORD BAG OF RICE; lines 379-393 high Inexhaustible Food Supply record
Japanese Fairy Tales THE FARMER AND THE BADGER / THE ADVENTURES OF KINTARO, THE GOLDEN BOY / THE STORY OF THE MAN WHO DID NOT WISH TO DIE / THE BAMBOO-CUTTER AND THE MOON-CHILD; lines 3062-3176 high Immortality Substance Withheld And Destroyed record
Islamicate Folklore

How This Tradition Tells It

1 occurrences

In Islamicate Folklore, this family appears through Improvised Intoxicating Drink As Relief During Captivity (1). The strongest concentration is currently in The Arabian Nights Entertainments. This is a deterministic summary of 1 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.

TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
The Arabian Nights Entertainments The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 4190-4274 medium Improvised Intoxicating Drink As Relief During Captivity record
Converges

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.

Diverges

Local Emphasis

Sufi leans toward Saintly Transformation Of Harmful Substance; Finnish/Karelian leans toward Animal Helper Obtains Magical Ingredient; Comparative leans toward Animal Part As Sacred Food, Luck Object, Divinatory Object, Or Token; Greek leans toward Binding Underworld Food; Hindu leans toward Cosmic Abundance Gathered To One Place; Norse leans toward Cosmic Nourishment By Milk Giving Animal.

Comparison Mode

Reading Rule

structuralthematiccontact not inferred

Timeline

Approximate eras from the cultural timeline index.
ca. 800-300 BCE

The Upanishads

Hindu - Vedic and early philosophical Sanskrit tradition - 4 tagged occurrences

ca. 750-400 BCE

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica

Greek - Archaic Greek poetic and hymnic tradition - 6 tagged occurrences

ca. 750-650 BCE

The Iliad

Greek - Archaic Greek heroic epic tradition - 6 tagged occurrences

ca. 200 BCE-200 CE

The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gita

Hindu - Sanskrit epic and devotional-philosophical tradition - 4 tagged occurrences

ca. 610-632 CE

The Koran (Al-Qur'an)

Islamic - Early Islamic revelation corpus - 10 tagged occurrences

ca. 800-1200 CE source traditions; 1905 retelling

Gods and Fighting Men

Celtic Irish - Medieval Irish mythic and heroic material - 8 tagged occurrences

ca. 800-1270 CE

The Poetic Edda

Norse - Old Norse mythological and heroic poetic tradition - 4 tagged occurrences

ca. 1100-1400 CE

The Mabinogion

Celtic Welsh - Medieval Welsh narrative and romance tradition - 3 tagged occurrences

1835-1849 CE compilation

Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland

Finnish/Karelian - Finnish/Karelian oral-poetry epic compilation - 6 tagged occurrences