Abstract
The play portrays the history of salvation by means of the allegory of life as a journey from Paradise back to God. Two incidents are dramatized, which share the same basic pattern of temptation, fall, repentance, and reconciliation, but are developed very differently, each becoming a short allegory. The first is rather unusual: man falls into a muddy lake, and as Christ pulls him out he falls (becomes muddy, i.e. assumes human nature) and saves man. Cleaned with the waters of baptism, he is ready to continue his pilgrimage. I explain the philological background of the allegory; its early development; and its moral content.
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