S^uar

Thraike

Erin

[In the dream of false awakening :] In the clouded night-sky, flashing lightning is viewed, and immediately afterwards,

"Orpheus was killed by lightening" ("D&HS", p. 374).

a "huge disembodied human head" (JPSW, p. 138) is viewed.

Orpheus, whose decapitated headed remained oracular,

Bran, whose decapitated headed remained oracular,

had been a musician : by music he had tamed Kerberos in the realm of souls of the dead,

had heard praeternatural music putting him to sleep (VBSF 2)

while visiting the soul of his dead wife, Euru-dike.

when a divine woman -- who controlled (VBSF 31) a magical branch --

invited him to visit the Island of Women.

S^uar

Hellas

<ibri^

Bharata

[In the dream of false awakening :] In the clouded night-sky, flashing lightning is viewed, and immediately afterwards,

Elusion (site struck by lightning) is now home of

Kronos.

cognate with /KRoNo-/ is the hero’s name /HaRRaN/, denizen of the city /H.ARRAN/.

cognate with /H.ARRAN/ is /CARAN.A-/, the divine musicians.

a "huge disembodied human head" (JPSW, p. 138) is viewed.

Trapi^m (human heads) were praeserved at H.arran.

Erin

Hellas

Island of Women

Island of the Seirenes, sailed past by (GM 154.d) Orpheus

"coloured lambs" (VBSF 38)

during the quaest for the golden fleece

Moninnan’s sea-faring chariot was pulled by horses over "waves beating across the clear sea" (VBSF 35).

Erekhthonios (serpent-tailed, GM 25.d) owned mares whose fillies (begotten by Boreas, who "has serpent tails for feet", GM 48.d) "could race ... over the crests of waves." (GM 48.e).

Erin

Hellas

Anahuac

Moninnan’s horses strolled athwart the waves.

In various siddha legends, a pond is strolled athwart by stepping from waterlily to waterlily.

"Red-headed flowers" (VBSF 35) were envisioned by Manannan

/PoDa-/ may indicate Skt. /PaDma/ (‘red waterLILY’) in the name of Poda-leirios,

*/LIRIan/ (> /Tlillan/) is ‘red’ in Nahuatl in

the son of LI`R.

where /LEIRIos/ is ‘of the LILY’.

the name of /Tlillan-tlapallan/ (< *labari ‘black’ = Anatolian "labarum"),

The tale of the 3 daughters of king Li`r (Lear) in paralleled in frigid Lapland.

the (Avalon-like) country in traveling toward which (by Quetzal-coatl and his troupe) the hunchbacks froze.

VBSF

Hellas

53

dragon

The "seal" may refer to those seals accompanying (GM 169.a) Proteus, who likewise rendered a prophecy. Is the "dragon" shape of Monga`n aequivalent to Dio-nusos, "a horned child crowned with serpents" (GM 27.a)? Dio-nusos was entertained by (GM 27.d) Proteus at Pharos.

wolf

54

silvern-antlered stag

speckled salmon

seal

white swan

Erin

Hellas

Monga`n’s married Dub-Lacha, who was abandoned (CM&DLM 27) by her husband Cuimne in favor of another woman, Ibbell (CM&DLM 23).

Dio-nusos’s married Ariadne, who had been deserted by her husband Theseus (GM 27.i) in favor of another woman, Antiope.

Monga`n was slain by Artur (VBSF, n. 26:7).

Dio-nusos was slain by Perseus (according to scholia on Iliad 14.319 – G&I 4.17).