Iban Gawai Tajau = itinerary of Theseus

stanza

citation (BW&RM, pp. 146-167)

section

citation (GM)

1.c

"the nearly dry lagoon"

95.d

"waded across"

3.c

"climb a notched ladder"

96.b

"As the tree sprang upright again, they were hurled high" {cf. Solomon Is. catapulting of souls of the dead into sky}

3.c

"in "barking deer" style"

96.c

birth of Melan-[h]ippos "black horse"

3.c

"he who is the great tortoise [accurately, "turtle"] chief, Able to swim against the great current"

96.f

"the sea, where a giant turtle swam about"

5.c

"mother of Engkechong Burong Ruai"

97.c

+Medeia was mother of Medeios (DCM, p. 260)

5.c

"rawai jar"

97.c

"a cup"

6.c

"they pass the lamps, Which light the darkness"

97.e

"He lighted lamps"

8.c

"divorced wife"

97.f

wife separated (divorced)

11.c

"Who cuts out the shape of shields, And

97.g

Pallas [cf. the Palladion, the shield made by +Athene]

 

can walk over the edge of the sky?"

97.g

"sprang the ambush"

12.g

"Sabang Api who stands on a tiny ladder"

98.k

Mino-tauros in the labyrinth

13.c

"Kaling Alu ridge"

98.m

"the harbour"

13.c

"a lying bachelor, Who walks in a funny way"

98.m

"the two effeminate-looking youths" [98.e these two had practised "how to ... walk like women."]

17.c

"made of long red beads"

98.o

"made ... of ... red Indian gems"

17.c

"a deer's antler still upon the skull"

98.u

"the closely compacted horns of countless she-goats"

20.a

"Ansang Rengaya, king of the sea"

98.v

Aigeus "deliberatlely cast himself into the sea, which was thenceforth named the Aegean."

25.c

"has extremely clever quick hands"

99.e

Demi-ourgoi "artificers"

26.c

"She [Ini Andan] is the guardian of whetstones so full of luck, Looking for their owners"

100.b

+Anti-ope had as her suitor Soloo:n ("egg-shaped weight", GM, Vol. 2, p.408)

28.c

"Suddenly the flat earth door is open"

100.h

"bursting in ... the doors"

29.c

"full of thorny palm[--tree]s

101.c

"would jab at its leaves with a ... pin"

32.c

'the forest of luxuriant trees"

101.l

"dark oak-woods"

33.c

"a single hut"

103.c

"palace" of Hades

33.c

"guarded by a striped python, victorious."

103.c

"Coiled serpents hissed all about them"

35.c

"where the travellers spread their awning mats. It is occupied by God ..."

104.b

"where philosophers meet and express ... views on the nature of the gods."

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."

GM = Robert Graves: The Greek Myths. 1955.