25 Bodish yoga-bandha-s = Iban mythic countries
comparison of Bodish sequence of yoga-postures with Iban mythic countries in sky-world
YY (pp. 372-3) |
SPWP |
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# |
yoga posture |
p. |
l. |
characteristic of deity of mythic country |
1. |
Camel |
581 |
cord-twiner at full-moon [p. 415, l. 46 : lansat-tree bearing fruit only on single branch] {cf. golden bough held by Aineas} |
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2. |
Conch |
583 |
Oil-Vial maiden [p. 415, l. 51 : "bottle"] |
|
3. |
Flame |
591 |
491 |
"wasps" [also p. 419, l. 84] {cf. wasps to make it shine at night (NShOT 2:3:191)} |
4. |
Turtle |
593 |
500 |
"fresh-water turtle" |
5. |
Plough |
595 |
510 |
"swivel-mount" (empty socket for pivot) {cf. swiveling Plough-constellation (Ursa major)} |
6. |
Snake |
597 |
529 |
maiden of swinging-gait [cf. swaying motion of serpent traveling across tree] |
7. |
Curved knife |
599 |
538 |
"tusk of small-pig" [curved] |
8. |
["voice" (p. 172)] |
" |
539 |
"bell"[the chiming bell, of instruments, most closely resembling the sound of human speech] |
10. |
Spider |
" |
542 |
"anoint with poison" |
11. |
Bow |
601 |
560 |
flower-drier {cf. flower-arrows of archer Kama} |
12 |
Half-Moon |
603 |
568 |
"Frogmouth" [crescent-mouthed] |
14. |
Vulture |
605 |
581 |
"halo of full-moon" {cf. Soma in eye of vulture} |
15. |
Triangle |
607 |
592 |
janitrix of door [triangular, cut from the slanting buttresses of jungle-trees] |
18. |
Trident |
609 |
598 |
drought-causer ["heat" (p. 264)] |
19. |
Tigre |
611 |
611 |
maina-bird {the mynah is similar to ("M") Becoming a Tiger} |
20. |
Jewel |
613 |
624 |
Renuk {‘my heart’ in Palauan : cf. Kemian ‘heart’ /i,b/ cognate with Skt. /yabh/ ‘to have sexual intercourse’ – " ‘white and white’ ... (... sperm and ovule-blood)" (p. 280)} |
21. |
Wheel |
" |
633 |
"drum" [circular-rimmed] |
23. |
["madness" (p. 318)] |
615 |
643 |
C^elun the manan [manan-s’ behaviour is oft deemed madness] |
24. |
Frog |
" |
647 |
"Frog" |
At least some of these may repraesent external souls : the camel Kabyle (GB, p. 686), the wasp Mongolian (GB, p. 688), the snake Tatar (GB, p. 687), the dove Magyar (GB, p. 687), the sword Tatar (GB, p. 688).
The association of Camel with Golden bough is <arabian : S.alih.’s She-Camel (whom "they hamstrung", M&GB p. 56 – with the hamstring-tendon cf. the cord twined at full-moon), which She-Camel was slain by by a pair : S.aduf’s (/s.adaf/ ‘conch’) husband (M&GB, p. 22), and Qudar, also known by (M&GB, p. x) the (posthumous) name Abu RiGal (‘sucking the mother’, LA-L 2:169a), whose corpse "was buried together with the golden bough" of the Tamud.
YY = Namkhai Norbu (transl. from the Tibetan, into Italian, by Adriano Clemente; transl. from the Italian by Andrew Lukianowicz): Yantra Yoga : a Stainless Mirror of Jewels. Snow Lion Publ, Ithaca (NY), 2008.
SPWP = Clifford Sather: Seeds of Play, Words of Power. Tun Jugah Foundation, 2001.
NShOT = Gregory G. Maskarinec: Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts. Harvard U. Pr, 1998.
"M" = "Mynahs" http://natureofbeast.typepad.com/the_nature_of_the_beast/mynahs/
GB = Frazer : The Golden Bough. 1922. http://books.google.com/books?id=4bT3ACjkRasC&pg=PA686&lpg=PA686&dq=
M&GB = Jaroslav Stetkevych : Muh.ammad and the Golden Bough. IN U Pr, 1996. http://books.google.com/books?id=OVXC72Td6CsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=camel+%22golden+bough%22&source=bl&ots=WJuOWhHv85&sig=kc-P1SR1iDBFvtJEhTv3jwxMJOg&hl=en&ei=grCkTNj9AsH7lwfNlb3XCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCgQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Righal&f=false
LA-L = Lexicon Arabico-Latinum. Beirut, 1975.