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

#

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}

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.