The Conference of the Birds
The birds of the world assemble to find themselves a king and are told that one exists, the Simurgh, beyond seven valleys of hardship. The excuses come first - the nightingale cannot leave his rose, the parrot fears for his feathers - and the hoopoe answers each of them with a story. The Sufi quest-poem, where the road is the whole of the argument.
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Hero's Journey (Campbell)
Emotional arc (story shape)
Quest object (Greimas)
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