Iban Gawai Sakit = itinerary of Dio-nusos
stanza |
citation (BW&RM, pp. 101-115) |
section or page |
citation |
7.c |
"betel-nut" |
GM 27.b |
"staff tipped with a pine-cone" |
10.c |
"He who smokes the enemy skulls." |
GM 27.f |
"is was she who wrenched off his head." |
11.c |
"the kusing bat, ... the entawai bat" |
GM 27.g |
Dio-nusos transformed the daughters of Minuas into bats. |
16.a |
"the spider " |
LB, p. 137 |
"a spidery symbol" |
17.c |
"a seesaw bridge, Joined by a bridge made of midang wood" |
GM 27.c |
"built a bridge across the river with ivy and vine" |
17.c |
"boat" |
GM 27.h |
Dio-nusos in ship. |
19.c |
"Grandmother Manang Jaban, Throws to the sky |
LB, p. 137 |
"used it to stun the mother goddess ... It rose up and up into the sky [and became Kgwedi, the moon-goddess]". |
an image made from a fig tree. |
IP |
"The statue of Priapus was generally chopped roughly out from the trunk of a standing tree. It was usually shaped from fig-tree wood" |
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She is the possessor of ... a charm made of petrified fat ... |
LB, p. 137 |
"the moon [is devoured monthly by] ... the hyena-of-darkness, ... a little of her with each passing day, leaving always a small piece". {Cf. Zagreus' being devoured.} |
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She is possessor of a petrified rotan vine". |
Dio-nusos is god of the grape-vine. |
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GD, p. 101 |
"themselves enveloped by a perfected energy with shines as brightly as the moon. In the middle of this radiance they then see |
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20.c |
"And who also possesses a lump of gold." |
the golden towers on the Mountain of Mystery Metropolis [Xuandu], among which is |
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a hall of white jade". {Cf. the white gypsum enclosing the heart of Zagreus, GM 30.b} |
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"Masters of the Heavenly Heart ... used lightning-struck wood" (GD, p. 101). |
For the sake of Zagreus his slayers were struck "with thunderbolts." (GM 30.b) |
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21.c |
"Gunyi's weaving loom, Which stands upright to pierce the heart of the sky" {"Pole Star (the "heart of the sky")", GD, p. 101, would be naturally pierced by the caelestial axis of rotation} |
GM 30.b |
Dio-nusos originated from the resuscitated heart of the boy Zagreus. {"heart of the sky" being a Quiche` Maya expression; while Piltzin-tecutli carrieth a transfixed heart} |
22.c |
"a hill with a hole blown by |
LB, p. 138 |
"a deep cavern" |
the wind" {This is Bon.} |
DCM, p. 373 |
As son of Dio-nusos, the infant Priapos "was endowed with enormous genitals." {Cf. the Inuit male infant wind-god Sila, endowed with enormous genitals} |
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22.c |
"who can make the dead live again." |
GM 27.k |
Dio-nusos [like Maudgalyayana] resurrected his own dead mother +Semele. |
30.c |
"crystal" |
LB, p. 143 |
"Someone, it seems, in prehistoric times wanted diamonds very badly." |
30.c |
"honey from the kepayang nut." |
GM 27.b |
"fed him on honey" |
BW&RM = SARAWAK MUSEUM JOURNAL, Vol XIII No. 27 (Borneo Writing and Related Matters = "Special Monograph, No. 1"). Kuching, 1966. pp. 32 to 286 Tom Harrisson & Benedict Sandin: "Borneo Writing Boards."
LB = Lyall Watson: Lightning Bird. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1982.
GD = Livia Kohn: God of the Dao. U. of MI, Ann Arbor, 1998.
GM = Robert Graves: The Greek Myths. 1955.
DCM = Pierre Grimal (transl. by Maxwell-Hyslop): Concise Dictionary of Classical Mythology.
IP = "Introduction" to The Priapeia. http://www.public-domain-content.com/books/classic_greece_rome/priap/prpc.shtml
Tales of Dionysus http://www.geocities.com/medea19777/dionysus.html