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.