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Seven Sleepers

Septem dormientes la ἑπτά κοιμώμενοι grc

Story in Christian folklore and the Qur'an

  • Also called Ashab-i Kehf, The Seven Sleepers

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Two clocks, kept apart

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From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Connections

How Seven Sleepers connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Identification 2

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One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.

Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification

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5 statements on this record

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