AWA Ancient Wisdom Atlas texts, motifs, patterns

Comparative mythology corpus

Storytelling and Narrative as Sacred Power

108 tagged occurrences across 16 traditions.

The act of telling stories as a means of survival, transmission of wisdom, or sacred power. Includes frame narratives, stories within stories, and oral transmission as a technology of cultural memory.

108total occurrences
108child motifs
16traditions 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
Animal Storyteller Frame functional_variant 1 1
Book Completed By Divine Favor functional_variant 1 1
Contest Of Song Between Mortals And Goddesses functional_variant 1 1
Demonic Storyteller Frame functional_variant 1 1
Divine Song Transforms Nature Into Provisions And Wealth functional_variant 1 1
Divinely Affiliated Singer With Lyre role_variant 1 1
Efficacious Poetic Speech Alters Royal Action functional_variant 1 1
Enchanted Drink Causing Sleep At A Feast functional_variant 1 1
Hero Praised Through Catalogue Of Exploits Before Battle functional_variant 1 1
Human Wins Favor Of Demons Through Performance functional_variant 1 1
Incantatory Folk Poetry Linked With Pagan Religious Practice ritual_variant 1 1
Invocation Of Divine Witnesses For Heroic Catalogue uncertain 1 1
Oral Transmission Of Heroic Legend In Domestic Settings functional_variant 1 1
Pacification Through Poetic Speech functional_variant 1 1
Personified Speech Or Rumor As Persistent Divine Force symbolic_variant 1 1
Personified Vessels In Dialogue functional_variant 1 1
Poet Assuming Another Person Through Imitation functional_variant 1 1
Poetic Praise Increases Warrior Courage functional_variant 1 1
Poetic Song As Peacemaking Force functional_variant 1 1
Poetic Song Survives Death symbolic_variant 1 1
Public Contest Of Performers Before A Judging Crowd functional_variant 1 1
Public Recitation Leading To Civic And Sacred Recognition functional_variant 1 1
Rescue Of Oral Tradition From Loss functional_variant 1 1
Rival Praise Of Local Heroes uncertain 1 1
Rivalry Of Poetry And Philosophy functional_variant 1 1
Ruler Healed By Faithful Attendants And Honors Them Through Poetic Commemoration uncertain 1 1
Sacred Narrative Displayed On Relic Shrines ritual_variant 1 1
Self Composed Epitaph Before Death functional_variant 1 1
Stories Ascribed To A Sacred Teacher uncertain 1 1
Storytelling Before A Ruler Wins Mercy functional_variant 1 1
Storytelling Frame Before A Cruel Ruler functional_variant 1 1
Tale As Repayment For Food And Drink functional_variant 1 1
Three Kinds Of Music Named From Childbirth Emotions functional_variant 1 1
Verbal Defeat Turning Into Violence functional_variant 1 1
War Camp Storytelling Of Heroic Feats functional_variant 1 1
Animal Centered Moral Tales broader_label 1 1
Authorship As Public Immortality symbolic_variant 1 1
Bardic Performance Nested Within The Main Narrative functional_variant 1 1
Blind Poor Bard Remembered As Sweetest Singer symbolic_variant 1 1
Comic Misunderstanding Of Learned Performance functional_variant 1 1
Dawn Suspense Reprieve child 1 1
Deity Praised By Natural And Human Singers functional_variant 1 1
Divine Musician And Leader Of Song role_variant 1 1
Divine Patronage Of Singers And Music functional_variant 1 1
Divinely Arranged Suffering Preserved In Song functional_variant 1 1
Domestic Lullaby Storytelling By Cradle And Fire functional_variant 1 1
Eloquence Represented As Golden Chains From The Mouth symbolic_variant 1 1
Embedded Tale Within Judicial Inquiry functional_variant 1 1
Emotional Contagion Through Represented Suffering functional_variant 1 1
Enchanting Power Of Words symbolic_variant 1 1
Enchantment Of The Soul By Speech functional_variant 1 1
Enduring Sacred Fame Guaranteed By Natural Permanence symbolic_variant 1 1
Enemy Rhetoric Exploiting Grievance functional_variant 1 1
Exile Of Deceptive Poetic Imitation uncertain 1 1
Foundation Text Of A Cultural Past functional_variant 1 1
Framed Past Life Exemplum functional_variant 1 1
Heroic Fame As The Remaining Possession Of The Dead symbolic_variant 1 1
Heroic Life Made Into Authoritative Epic Narration meta_artifact 1 1
Heroic Name Proclaimed Among Peoples functional_variant 1 1
Ill Timed Song As Danger Signal functional_variant 1 1
Last Minute Interruption Of Execution functional_variant 1 1
Last Minute Rescue From Execution functional_variant 1 1
Liberating Song Opens Bonds functional_variant 1 1
Liberator Threatened By Captive child 1 1
Lineage Of Poetic Authority And Patronage role_variant 1 1
Living Or Animated Speech symbolic_variant 1 1
Lost Ancient Tribes Remembered Through Tradition And Scripture functional_variant 1 1
Magical Satire And Insult Song functional_variant 1 1
Magical Song As Overpowering Force functional_variant 1 1
Marvelous Voice Producing Abundance And Delight functional_variant 1 1
Music Summons A Shade Giving Grove over_specific_label 1 1
National Songs Preserved In Memory Before Writing narrower_than 1 1
Nearly Extinguished Speech Revived Into Living Word symbolic_variant 1 1
One Eyed Wanderers With Separate Marvelous Histories over_specific_label 1 1
Oral Preservation By Trained Bards functional_variant 1 1
Oral Songs Arising From Communal Memory Of War functional_variant 1 1
Oral Tradition Passed To Future Generations functional_variant 1 1
Personified Report As Supernatural Agent symbolic_variant 1 1
Poems As Pearls Gathered After Death symbolic_variant 1 1
Poet Challenges Ruler Through Witty Reply functional_variant 1 1
Poet's Work Appropriated By False Claimant functional_variant 1 1
Poet Satirist Compels Or Redirects Obligation functional_variant 1 1
Poetic Contest Between Rival Poets functional_variant 1 1
Poetic Contest With Prize Dedication functional_variant 1 1
Poetic Immortality Of Heroic Pair symbolic_variant 1 1
Poetry As Fertile Garden Or Nursery symbolic_variant 1 1
Praise Or Rebuke Restores A Warrior's Courage functional_variant 1 1
Public Display Contest Of Sacred And Poetic Texts functional_variant 1 1
Regulation Of Divine Stories For Youth Education functional_variant 1 1
Rhyme As Persuasive Sacred Style symbolic_variant 1 1
Ritual Completion Of Scripture Through Divided Recitation ritual_variant 1 1
Ruler Orders Wondrous Event Recorded functional_variant 1 1
Sacred Opening Formula ritual_variant 1 1
Songbird Preserving Memory Of Former Heroes symbolic_variant 1 1
Speech As Enchantment Of The Mind functional_variant 1 1
Speechless Captive Finds Alternate Communication functional_variant 1 1
Staged Grief As Coercive Strategy functional_variant 1 1
Storytelling As Condition For Release functional_variant 1 1
Storytelling As Survival child 1 1
Storytelling At Fire And Tree Shade narrower_than 1 1
Successive Heroic Arrivals And Recognition By A Knowledgeable Speaker functional_variant 1 1
Third Party Arbiter Profits From A Quarrel functional_variant 1 1
Unmade Textile As Prolonged Device functional_variant 1 1
Unspoken Verse As Illness Relieved By Recitation functional_variant 1 1
Untranslatable Contest Or Repartee Based On Wordplay functional_variant 1 1
Voluntary Bride Intercession child 1 1
Wit Overwhelms Supernatural Force child 1 1
Woman Weaving The War Caused Around Her symbolic_variant 1 1

Tradition Frequency

Relative bars compare traditions inside this family.
Greek 33 Celtic Irish 15 Islamicate Folklore 13 Sufi 9 Buddhist 7 Finnish/Karelian 6 Islamic 6 Roman 5 Celtic Welsh 3 Hindu 3 Greek/Roman 2 Persian 2 Ainu 1 Indigenous Australian 1 Japanese 1 Norse 1

How Each Tradition Tells It

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Greek

How This Tradition Tells It

33 occurrences

In Greek, this family appears through Divinely Affiliated Singer With Lyre (1), Invocation Of Divine Witnesses For Heroic Catalogue (1), Personified Speech Or Rumor As Persistent Divine Force (1). The strongest concentration is currently in The Iliad and Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica. This is a deterministic summary of 33 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.

TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
Aesop's Fables; a new translation THE FARMER, HIS BOY, AND THE ROOKS / THE ASS AND THE DOG / THE ASS CARRYING THE IMAGE / THE ATHENIAN AND THE THEBAN; lines 4178-4195 high Rival Praise Of Local Heroes record
Aesop's Fables; a new translation THE GOAT AND THE VINE / THE TWO POTS / THE OLD HOUND / THE CLOWN AND THE COUNTRYMAN; lines 2862-2889 high Public Contest Of Performers Before A Judging Crowd record
Aesop's Fables; a new translation THE KINGDOM OF THE LION / THE ASS AND HIS DRIVER / THE LION AND THE HARE / THE WOLVES AND THE DOGS; lines 3763-3778 medium Enemy Rhetoric Exploiting Grievance record
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica ENDNOTES / PREPARERS NOTE / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION; lines 1108-1144 medium Poetic Contest Between Rival Poets record
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica ENDNOTES / PREPARERS NOTE / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION; lines 366-450 medium Poetic Contest With Prize Dedication record
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica INTRODUCTION / BIBLIOGRAPHY / HESIOD / HESIODS WORKS AND DAYS; lines 2169-2282 medium Personified Speech Or Rumor As Persistent Divine Force record
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica THE EXPEDITION OF AMPHIARAUS / THE TAKING OF OECHALIA / THE PHOCAIS / THE MARGITES; lines 8294-8325 medium Divinely Affiliated Singer With Lyre record
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica THE MARGITES / THE CERCOPES / THE BATTLE OF FROGS AND MICE / OF THE ORIGIN OF HOMER AND HESIOD, AND OF THEIR CONTEST; lines 9018-9053 medium Public Recitation Leading To Civic And Sacred Recognition record
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TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica THE MARGITES / THE CERCOPES / THE BATTLE OF FROGS AND MICE / OF THE ORIGIN OF HOMER AND HESIOD, AND OF THEIR CONTEST; lines 9018-9053 high Self Composed Epitaph Before Death record
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica XVIII. TO HERMES / XIX. TO PAN / XX. TO HEPHAESTUS / XXI. TO APOLLO; lines 7229-7248 medium Deity Praised By Natural And Human Singers record
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica XXII. TO POSEIDON / XXIII. TO THE SON OF CRONOS, MOST HIGH / XXIV. TO HESTIA / XXV. TO THE MUSES AND APOLLO; lines 7271-7287 high Divine Patronage Of Singers And Music record
Phaedrus PHAEDRUS / INTRODUCTION. / ON THE DECLINE OF GREEK LITERATURE. / PHAEDRUS; lines 2636-2763 medium Authorship As Public Immortality record
Phaedrus PHAEDRUS / INTRODUCTION. / ON THE DECLINE OF GREEK LITERATURE. / PHAEDRUS; lines 2765-2908 medium Speech As Enchantment Of The Mind record
Phaedrus PHAEDRUS / INTRODUCTION. / ON THE DECLINE OF GREEK LITERATURE. / PHAEDRUS; lines 3313-3435 high Enchantment Of The Soul By Speech record
The Iliad BOOK XIII. / ARGUMENT. / BOOK XIV. / JUNO DECEIVES JUPITER BY THE GIRDLE OF VENUS.; lines 14216-14272 high Invocation Of Divine Witnesses For Heroic Catalogue record
The Iliad CONCLUDING NOTE. / INTRODUCTION. / THEODORE ALOIS BUCKLEY. / POPES PREFACE TO THE ILIAD OF HOMER; lines 1209-1300 medium Poetry As Fertile Garden Or Nursery record
The Iliad CONCLUDING NOTE. / INTRODUCTION. / THEODORE ALOIS BUCKLEY. / POPES PREFACE TO THE ILIAD OF HOMER; lines 1471-1552 medium Living Or Animated Speech record
The Iliad CONCLUDING NOTE. / INTRODUCTION. / THEODORE ALOIS BUCKLEY. / POPES PREFACE TO THE ILIAD OF HOMER; lines 1939-2031 medium Lineage Of Poetic Authority And Patronage record
The Iliad THE FIFTH BATTLE AT THE SHIPS; AND THE ACTS OF AJAX. / BOOK XVI. / ARGUMENT / THE SIXTH BATTLE, THE ACTS AND DEATH OF PATROCLUS; lines 15781-15909 high Heroic Fame As The Remaining Possession Of The Dead record
The Iliad THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE. / A. POPE / END OF THE ILIAD; lines 23454-23581 medium Blind Poor Bard Remembered As Sweetest Singer record
The Iliad THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR. / CONCLUDING NOTE. / A. POPE / END OF THE ILIAD; lines 23454-23581 high National Songs Preserved In Memory Before Writing record
The Iliad THE TRIAL OF THE ARMY, AND CATALOGUE OF THE FORCES. / BOOK III. / ARGUMENT. / THE DUEL OF MENELAUS AND PARIS.; lines 4305-4445 medium Woman Weaving The War Caused Around Her record
The Iliad The Iliad / CONCLUDING NOTE. / INTRODUCTION.; lines 288-380 high Poet's Work Appropriated By False Claimant record
The Iliad The Iliad / CONCLUDING NOTE. / INTRODUCTION.; lines 586-663 medium Oral Preservation By Trained Bards record
The Iliad The Iliad / CONCLUDING NOTE. / INTRODUCTION.; lines 825-909 medium Oral Songs Arising From Communal Memory Of War record
The Odyssey BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII / BOOK XXIV / FOOTNOTES:; lines 11743-11857 medium Unmade Textile As Prolonged Device record
The Odyssey THE MEETING BETWEEN NAUSICAA AND ULYSSES. / BOOK VII / RECEPTION OF ULYSSES AT THE PALACE OF KING ALCINOUS. / BOOK VIII; lines 3496-3597 high Bardic Performance Nested Within The Main Narrative record
The Odyssey THE MEETING BETWEEN NAUSICAA AND ULYSSES. / BOOK VII / RECEPTION OF ULYSSES AT THE PALACE OF KING ALCINOUS. / BOOK VIII; lines 3787-3798 high Divinely Arranged Suffering Preserved In Song record
The Republic BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII. / BOOK IX. / BOOK X.; lines 23819-23921 medium Emotional Contagion Through Represented Suffering record
The Republic PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE. / BOOK I. / BOOK II. / BOOK III.; lines 12131-12273 high Poet Assuming Another Person Through Imitation record
The Republic THE REPUBLIC. / PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE. / BOOK I. / BOOK II.; lines 11782-11797 high Regulation Of Divine Stories For Youth Education record
The Republic The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 165-251 medium Exile Of Deceptive Poetic Imitation record
The Republic The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 5618-5704 medium Rivalry Of Poetry And Philosophy record
Celtic Irish

How This Tradition Tells It

15 occurrences

In Celtic Irish, this family appears through Enchanted Drink Causing Sleep At A Feast (1), Hero Praised Through Catalogue Of Exploits Before Battle (1), Oral Transmission Of Heroic Legend In Domestic Settings (1). The strongest concentration is currently in Gods and Fighting Men and Heroic Romances of Ireland. This is a deterministic summary of 15 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.

TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
Gods and Fighting Men CHAPTER I. OISIN'S STORY / CHAPTER II. OISIN IN PATRICK'S HOUSE / CHAPTER III. THE ARGUMENTS / CHAPTER IV. OISIN'S LAMENTS; lines 15091-15228 medium Songbird Preserving Memory Of Former Heroes record
Gods and Fighting Men CHAPTER I. THE LAD OF THE SKINS / CHAPTER II. BLACK, BROWN, AND GREY / CHAPTER III. THE HOUND / CHAPTER IV. RED RIDGE; lines 7054-7083 high Pacification Through Poetic Speech record
Gods and Fighting Men CHAPTER II. MEARGACH'S WIFE / CHAPTER III. AILNE'S REVENGE / BOOK NINE: THE WEARING AWAY OF THE FIANNA. / CHAPTER I. THE QUARREL WITH THE SONS OF MORNA; lines 13786-13882 high Poetic Song As Peacemaking Force record
Gods and Fighting Men CHAPTER III. THE ARGUMENTS / CHAPTER IV. OISIN'S LAMENTS / NOTES / I. THE APOLOGY; lines 15253-15337 medium Oral Transmission Of Heroic Legend In Domestic Settings 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 IX. THE HIGH KING'S SON / CHAPTER X. THE KING OF LOCHLANN AND HIS SONS / CHAPTER XI. LABRAN'S JOURNEY / CHAPTER XII. THE GREAT FIGHT; lines 8041-8132 high Poetic Praise Increases Warrior Courage record
Gods and Fighting Men CHAPTER VII. THE FIRST FIGHTERS / CHAPTER VIII. THE KING OF ULSTER'S SON / CHAPTER IX. THE HIGH KING'S SON / CHAPTER X. THE KING OF LOCHLANN AND HIS SONS; lines 7824-7919 high Praise Or Rebuke Restores A Warrior's Courage record
Heroic Romances of Ireland THE APPARITION OF THE GREAT QUEEN TO CUCHULAIN / INTRODUCTION / THE APPARITION OF THE GREAT QUEEN TO CUCHULAIN / FROM THE YELLOW BOOK OF LECAN (FOURTEENTH CENTURY); lines 12247-12408 high Magical Satire And Insult Song record
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TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
Heroic Romances of Ireland THE EXILE OF THE SONS' OF USNACH / INTRODUCTION / THE EXILE OF THE SONS OF USNACH / BOOK OF LEINSTER VERSION; lines 4080-4185 medium Marvelous Voice Producing Abundance And Delight record
Heroic Romances of Ireland THE RAID FOR THE CATTLE OF FRAECH / TAIN BO FRAICH / Part I / LITERAL TRANSLATION; lines 9868-9987 high Three Kinds Of Music Named From Childbirth Emotions record
Heroic Romances of Ireland THE RAID FOR THE CATTLE OF REGAMON / LITERAL TRANSLATION / THE DRIVING OF THE CATTLE OF FLIDAIS / INTRODUCTION; lines 11464-11571 high Poet Satirist Compels Or Redirects Obligation record
The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge HERE FOLLOWETH ILIACH'S CLUMP-FIGHT / HERE NOW THE DEER-STALKING OF AMARGIN IN TALTIU / THE ADVENTURES OF CUROI SON OF DARE FOLLOW NOW / THE REPEATED WARNING OF SUALTAIM; lines 14027-14156 high Successive Heroic Arrivals And Recognition By A Knowledgeable Speaker record
The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge THIS IS THE ROUTE OF THE TAIN / THE MARCH OF THE HOST / THE YOUTHFUL EXPLOITS OF CUCHULAIN / THE SLAYING OF ORLAM; lines 4468-4620 medium Hero Praised Through Catalogue Of Exploits Before Battle record
The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge / THE ANCIENT IRISH EPIC TALE / TAIN BO CUALNGE / WITH TWO PAGES IN FACSIMILE OF THE MANUSCRIPTS; lines 87-104 medium Heroic Name Proclaimed Among Peoples record
The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge WORKS ON THE TAIN BO CUALNGE / THE PILLOW-TALK / THIS IS THE ROUTE OF THE TAIN / THE MARCH OF THE HOST; lines 2516-2635 medium War Camp Storytelling Of Heroic Feats record
Islamicate Folklore

How This Tradition Tells It

13 occurrences

In Islamicate Folklore, this family appears through Storytelling Before A Ruler Wins Mercy (1), Storytelling Frame Before A Cruel Ruler (1), Dawn Suspense Reprieve (1). The strongest concentration is currently in The Arabian Nights Entertainments. This is a deterministic summary of 13 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.

TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
The Arabian Nights Entertainments The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 1740-1858 high One Eyed Wanderers With Separate Marvelous Histories record
The Arabian Nights Entertainments The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 1860-1970 high Storytelling As Condition For Release record
The Arabian Nights Entertainments The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 4887-4981 high Last Minute Interruption Of Execution record
The Arabian Nights Entertainments The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 4983-5074 high Embedded Tale Within Judicial Inquiry record
The Arabian Nights Entertainments The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 4983-5074 high Last Minute Rescue From Execution record
The Arabian Nights Entertainments The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 4983-5074 medium Ruler Orders Wondrous Event Recorded record
The Arabian Nights Entertainments The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 5485-5587 high Storytelling Before A Ruler Wins Mercy record
The Arabian Nights Entertainments The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 67-194 medium Storytelling Frame Before A Cruel Ruler record
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TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
The Arabian Nights Entertainments The Arabian Nights: Scheherazade volunteers and secures the dawn reprieve high Dawn Suspense Reprieve record
The Arabian Nights Entertainments The Arabian Nights: Scheherazade volunteers and secures the dawn reprieve high Storytelling As Survival record
The Arabian Nights Entertainments The Arabian Nights: Scheherazade volunteers and secures the dawn reprieve high Voluntary Bride Intercession record
The Arabian Nights Entertainments The Story of the Fisherman: sealed jar, murderous genius, and return to the vessel high Liberator Threatened By Captive record
The Arabian Nights Entertainments The Story of the Fisherman: sealed jar, murderous genius, and return to the vessel high Wit Overwhelms Supernatural Force record
Sufi

How This Tradition Tells It

9 occurrences

In Sufi, this family appears through Efficacious Poetic Speech Alters Royal Action (1), Personified Vessels In Dialogue (1), Poetic Song Survives Death (1). The strongest concentration is currently in Poems from the Divan of Hafiz and The Persian Mystics: Jámí. This is a deterministic summary of 9 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.

TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
Poems from the Divan of Hafiz GERTRUDE LOWTHIAN BELL / LONDON / WILLIAM HEINEMANN / INTRODUCTION; lines 415-498 medium Poet Challenges Ruler Through Witty Reply record
Poems from the Divan of Hafiz GERTRUDE LOWTHIAN BELL / LONDON / WILLIAM HEINEMANN / INTRODUCTION; lines 594-680 medium Poems As Pearls Gathered After Death record
Poems from the Divan of Hafiz TRANSLATED BY / GERTRUDE LOWTHIAN BELL / LONDON / WILLIAM HEINEMANN; lines 66-125 high Poetic Song Survives Death record
Poems from the Divan of Hafiz XXXIV / XXXVI / XXXVII / XXXIX; lines 3892-3989 high Ruler Healed By Faithful Attendants And Honors Them Through Poetic Commemoration record
The Persian Mystics: Jalálu'd-dín Rúmí THE TRUE MOSQUE / A PRAYER / ALL RELIGIONS ARE ONE / APPENDIX: A NOTE ON PERSIAN POETRY; lines 2319-2416 high Efficacious Poetic Speech Alters Royal Action record
The Persian Mystics: Jámí A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN / SIXTH GARDEN / JOCULARITY / A WEAVER AND A LEARNED PROFESSOR; lines 2041-2066 high Comic Misunderstanding Of Learned Performance record
The Persian Mystics: Jámí PHANTOM RELATIONS / AN OLD HAG WHO DESIRED ONLY PLEASURE / PLAGIARISM / THE AFFLICTED POET; lines 2115-2151 high Unspoken Verse As Illness Relieved By Recitation record
The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam LXIV. / LXVI. / LXVII. / LXVIII.; lines 1504-1526 high Personified Vessels In Dialogue record
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TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam STANZA / STANZA / STANZA / STANZAS WHICH APPEAR IN THE SECOND EDITION ONLY; lines 5045-5111 high Nearly Extinguished Speech Revived Into Living Word record
Buddhist

How This Tradition Tells It

7 occurrences

In Buddhist, this family appears through Animal Storyteller Frame (1), Demonic Storyteller Frame (1), Sacred Narrative Displayed On Relic Shrines (1). The strongest concentration is currently in Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 and More Jataka Tales. This is a deterministic summary of 7 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.

TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 ON THE HISTORY OF THE BIRTH STORIES IN INDIA. / T. W. RHYS DAVIDS. / TABLE I. / INDIAN WORKS.; lines 2337-2496 medium Animal Storyteller Frame record
Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 ON THE HISTORY OF THE BIRTH STORIES IN INDIA. / T. W. RHYS DAVIDS. / TABLE I. / INDIAN WORKS.; lines 2337-2496 medium Demonic Storyteller Frame record
Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 ON THE HISTORY OF THE BIRTH STORIES IN INDIA. / T. W. RHYS DAVIDS. / TABLE I. / INDIAN WORKS.; lines 2337-2496 medium Stories Ascribed To A Sacred Teacher record
Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 PART I. / PART II. / SUPPLEMENTARY TABLES. / THE BIRTH STORIES.; lines 276-361 medium Animal Centered Moral Tales record
Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 THE BARLAAM AND JOSAPHAT LITERATURE. / SUMMARY. / PART II. / ON THE HISTORY OF THE BIRTH STORIES IN INDIA.; lines 1657-1752 high Sacred Narrative Displayed On Relic Shrines record
Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 THE BARLAAM AND JOSAPHAT LITERATURE. / SUMMARY. / PART II. / ON THE HISTORY OF THE BIRTH STORIES IN INDIA.; lines 2024-2110 high Framed Past Life Exemplum record
More Jataka Tales THE PENNY-WISE MONKEY / THE RED-BUD TREE / THE WOODPECKER AND THE LION / THE OTTERS AND THE WOLF; lines 722-771 high Third Party Arbiter Profits From A Quarrel record
Finnish/Karelian

How This Tradition Tells It

6 occurrences

In Finnish/Karelian, this family appears through Divine Song Transforms Nature Into Provisions And Wealth (1), Incantatory Folk Poetry Linked With Pagan Religious Practice (1), Rescue Of Oral Tradition From Loss (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 DR. J.D. BUCK, / AN ENCOURAGING AND UNSELFISH FRIEND, AND TO HIS AFFECTIONATE FAMILY, / THESE PAGES ARE GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED. / PREFACE; lines 771-863 medium Incantatory Folk Poetry Linked With Pagan Religious Practice record
Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland DR. J.D. BUCK, / AN ENCOURAGING AND UNSELFISH FRIEND, AND TO HIS AFFECTIONATE FAMILY, / THESE PAGES ARE GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED. / PREFACE; lines 771-863 high Rescue Of Oral Tradition From Loss record
Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 21489-21680 high Ill Timed Song As Danger Signal record
Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 11875-12035 high Divine Song Transforms Nature Into Provisions And Wealth record
Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 2212-2381 high Magical Song As Overpowering Force record
Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II / EPILOGUE; lines 25223-25327 high Oral Tradition Passed To Future Generations record
Islamic

How This Tradition Tells It

6 occurrences

In Islamic, this family appears through Enchanting Power Of Words (1), Lost Ancient Tribes Remembered Through Tradition And Scripture (1), Public Display Contest Of Sacred And Poetic Texts (1). The strongest concentration is currently in The Koran (Al-Qur'an). This is a deterministic summary of 6 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.

TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
The Koran (Al-Qur'an) A TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS / THE KORAN. / PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE / SECTION I.; lines 1026-1112 medium Lost Ancient Tribes Remembered Through Tradition And Scripture record
The Koran (Al-Qur'an) PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE / SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III; lines 3269-3318 high Ritual Completion Of Scripture Through Divided Recitation record
The Koran (Al-Qur'an) PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE / SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III; lines 3269-3318 high Sacred Opening Formula record
The Koran (Al-Qur'an) PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE / SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III; lines 3321-3372 medium Public Display Contest Of Sacred And Poetic Texts record
The Koran (Al-Qur'an) PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE / SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III; lines 3375-3422 high Enchanting Power Of Words record
The Koran (Al-Qur'an) PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE / SECTION I. / SECTION II. / SECTION III; lines 3375-3422 high Rhyme As Persuasive Sacred Style record
Roman

How This Tradition Tells It

5 occurrences

In Roman, this family appears through Contest Of Song Between Mortals And Goddesses (1), Music Summons A Shade Giving Grove (1), Personified Report As Supernatural Agent (1). The strongest concentration is currently in The Aeneid of Virgil and The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII. This is a deterministic summary of 5 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.

TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
The Aeneid of Virgil BOOK EIGHTH / THE EMBASSAGE TO EVANDER / BOOK NINTH / THE SIEGE OF THE TROJAN CAMP; lines 5936-6013 high Poetic Immortality Of Heroic Pair record
The Aeneid of Virgil BOOK THIRD / THE STORY OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WANDERING / BOOK FOURTH / THE LOVE OF DIDO, AND HER END; lines 2222-2307 high Personified Report As Supernatural Agent record
The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE FIFTH. / EXPLANATION.; lines 8101-8206 high Contest Of Song Between Mortals And Goddesses record
The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 10277-10351 high Speechless Captive Finds Alternate Communication record
The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / BOOK THE TENTH. / EXPLANATION.; lines 4205-4260 medium Music Summons A Shade Giving Grove record
Celtic Welsh

How This Tradition Tells It

3 occurrences

In Celtic Welsh, this family appears through Tale As Repayment For Food And Drink (1), Liberating Song Opens Bonds (1), Untranslatable Contest Or Repartee Based On Wordplay (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 CONTENTS / INTRODUCTION / C. E. G. / THE LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN; lines 352-444 medium Tale As Repayment For Food And Drink record
The Mabinogion PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED / THE DREAM OF MAXEN WLEDIG / HERE IS THE STORY OF LLUDD AND LLEVELYS / TALIESIN; lines 9223-9356 high Liberating Song Opens Bonds record
The Mabinogion THE DREAM OF MAXEN WLEDIG / HERE IS THE STORY OF LLUDD AND LLEVELYS / TALIESIN / FOOTNOTES; lines 9549-9572 medium Untranslatable Contest Or Repartee Based On Wordplay record
Hindu

How This Tradition Tells It

3 occurrences

In Hindu, this family appears through Enduring Sacred Fame Guaranteed By Natural Permanence (1), Heroic Life Made Into Authoritative Epic Narration (1), Staged Grief As Coercive Strategy (1). The strongest concentration is currently in The Ramayan of Valmiki. This is a deterministic summary of 3 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.

TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
The Ramayan of Valmiki BOOK II. / Canto I. The Heir Apparent. / Canto VI. The City Decorated. / Canto IX. The Plot.; lines 10821-10989 high Staged Grief As Coercive Strategy record
The Ramayan of Valmiki CONTENTS / INVOCATION.(1) / BOOK I.(6) / OM.(8); lines 1157-1236 medium Enduring Sacred Fame Guaranteed By Natural Permanence record
The Ramayan of Valmiki CONTENTS / INVOCATION.(1) / BOOK I.(6) / OM.(8); lines 1157-1236 medium Heroic Life Made Into Authoritative Epic Narration record
Greek/Roman

How This Tradition Tells It

2 occurrences

In Greek/Roman, this family appears through Divine Musician And Leader Of Song (1), Eloquence Represented As Golden Chains From The Mouth (1). The strongest concentration is currently in Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome. This is a deterministic summary of 2 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.

TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome MARS. / NIKE (VICTORIA). / VICTORIA. / HERMES (MERCURY).; lines 3894-3936 high Eloquence Represented As Golden Chains From The Mouth record
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome VENUS. / HELIOS (SOL). / EOS (AURORA). / PHOEBUS-APOLLO.; lines 2279-2363 high Divine Musician And Leader Of Song record
Persian

How This Tradition Tells It

2 occurrences

In Persian, this family appears through Book Completed By Divine Favor (1), Verbal Defeat Turning Into Violence (1). The strongest concentration is currently in The Persian Literature, Volume 2, The Gulistan. This is a deterministic summary of 2 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.

TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
The Persian Literature, Volume 2, The Gulistan CXVII / CXVIII / CXXII / THE CONCLUSION OF THE BOOK; lines 4883-4921 medium Book Completed By Divine Favor record
The Persian Literature, Volume 2, The Gulistan XVIII. / CHAPTER VI / CHAPTER VII / XVIII; lines 3846-3931 medium Verbal Defeat Turning Into Violence record
Ainu

How This Tradition Tells It

1 occurrences

In Ainu, this family appears through Domestic Lullaby Storytelling By Cradle And Fire (1). The strongest concentration is currently in Aino Folk-Tales. This is a deterministic summary of 1 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.

TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
Aino Folk-Tales LOCAL SECRETARIES. / HONORARY SECRETARIES. / INTRODUCTION. / AINO FOLK-LORE.; lines 351-433 low Domestic Lullaby Storytelling By Cradle And Fire record
Indigenous Australian

How This Tradition Tells It

1 occurrences

In Indigenous Australian, this family appears through Storytelling At Fire And Tree Shade (1). The strongest concentration is currently in Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies. This is a deterministic summary of 1 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.

TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies WITH INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW LANG, M.A. / CONTENTS / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION; lines 227-287 medium Storytelling At Fire And Tree Shade record
Japanese

How This Tradition Tells It

1 occurrences

In Japanese, this family appears through Human Wins Favor Of Demons Through Performance (1). The strongest concentration is currently in Japanese Fairy Tales. This is a deterministic summary of 1 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.

TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
Japanese Fairy Tales THE STORY OF PRINCE YAMATO TAKE / MOMOTARO, OR THE STORY OF THE SON OF A PEACH / THE OGRE OF RASHOMON / HOW AN OLD MAN LOST HIS WEN; lines 7000-7120 high Human Wins Favor Of Demons Through Performance record
Norse

How This Tradition Tells It

1 occurrences

In Norse, this family appears through Foundation Text Of A Cultural Past (1). The strongest concentration is currently in Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas. This is a deterministic summary of 1 tagged motif occurrences, not a claim of historical transmission.

TextLine RangeConfidenceChild MotifExtraction
Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas / CONTENTS / LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / INTRODUCTION; lines 296-325 medium Foundation Text Of A Cultural Past 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

Buddhist leans toward Animal Storyteller Frame; Greek leans toward Divinely Affiliated Singer With Lyre; Persian leans toward Book Completed By Divine Favor; Sufi leans toward Efficacious Poetic Speech Alters Royal Action; Roman leans toward Contest Of Song Between Mortals And Goddesses; Islamicate Folklore leans toward Storytelling Before A Ruler Wins Mercy.

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 - 3 tagged occurrences

ca. 750-400 BCE

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica

Greek - Archaic Greek poetic and hymnic tradition - 33 tagged occurrences

ca. 750-650 BCE

The Iliad

Greek - Archaic Greek heroic epic tradition - 33 tagged occurrences

ca. 300-100 BCE

Dhammapada, a Collection of Verses

Buddhist - Early Buddhist verse collection - 7 tagged occurrences

ca. 200 BCE-200 CE

The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gita

Hindu - Sanskrit epic and devotional-philosophical tradition - 3 tagged occurrences

ca. 610-632 CE

The Koran (Al-Qur'an)

Islamic - Early Islamic revelation corpus - 6 tagged occurrences

ca. 800-1200 CE source traditions; 1905 retelling

Gods and Fighting Men

Celtic Irish - Medieval Irish mythic and heroic material - 15 tagged occurrences

ca. 800-1270 CE

The Poetic Edda

Norse - Old Norse mythological and heroic poetic tradition - 1 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