Iban Gawai Umai = voyage of the Argo
section |
citation (BW&RM) |
section |
citation (GM) |
1.c |
"Reaching a dry sand beach," "scooping up" |
4th PO, line 89 |
Otos & Ephialtes [, whose mother "used to crouch on the seashore, scooping up" (GM 37.a)]: |
2.c |
"brushed by growing mango branches |
loc. cit. |
they "died" [and were afterward pilloried, GM 37.d] |
3.c |
"ringka baskets, Which hang down from the moon" |
4th PO, line 90 |
Tituos, who attempted to rape +Leto [much as was attempted on +Pistis in the Hypostasis of the Arkhones -- with the Manikhaian result of buckets of semen of her would-be rapists being raised by roped buckets to the moon] |
4.c |
"fragments of whitened stone" |
4th PO, line 138 |
"Cleaver of the Rock" |
4.c |
"Reaching the corner of a spinning stone" |
4th PO, line 183 |
Zetes & Kalai:s [, who praesided over "logan-stone", GM 150.c] |
5.c |
"the swirling water" {cf. "swirling elixir", in, e.g., the "Purple Texts" -- EDS, pp. 290, 337} |
4th PO, line 189 |
"the finest elixir" |
6.c |
"a cup" |
4th PO, line 193 |
"a golden goblet" |
7.c |
"the wheel on a chair's legs." |
154.g |
"tripods" [cf. 23.c "three-legged tables with golden wheels"] |
8.c |
"Lau Limbi with the iron coat" |
154.h |
Talos "the bronze sentinel" |
9.c |
"lifting the tepayan jar upside down." |
154.i |
"poured water libations" |
vol. 2, p. 248, n. 13 |
[N.B.: according to Herodotos, the foregoing events (of 154.g-i) praeceded the voyage to Kolkhis (of GM 151.a-154.f)] |
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[So also according to Pindaros, 4th Pythian Ode, did these events praecede the voyage to Kolkhis (of GM 151.a-154.f)] |
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10.c |
"does not move" |
4th PO, line 211 |
the Sumplegad-es "Clashing Rocks" were "put an end to" [immobilized, GM 151.a] |
12.c |
"Laut Ulop Mentali Dani, Who warns that the day is breaking" |
151.b |
Apollon "of the Dawn" |
14.c |
"thousands of river-mouths, ... occupied by Laja, Who has big eyes" |
151.c |
into "the reed-beds of the river" came [W]idmon (cf. Latin videre "to see") |
15.c |
"maiden Sunta Kantok Raba" |
151.d |
Asopos's daughter +Sinope "craftily chose virginity" |
15.c |
"maiden Lenjai Tampok Binjai, Who spreads a mat to welcome the Malays." |
151.e |
the +Amazon-es [such as 153.f +Antiope, who 100.a rendered hospitality] |
16.c |
grandfather (? uncles' father) "Whose raised platform is made from a huge boulder." |
151.f |
"of their grandfather ... on a black stone in the temple of" Ares |
17.c |
"Come to the foot of the Pauh Jenggi tree, And to the trunk of the Sibau Bali tree" |
151.g |
+Philura "was metamorphosed into a linden-tree." |
22.c |
"love charms" |
152.a |
love-charm: |
22.c |
"Reaching the petrified corpse" |
4th PO, line 214 |
"the dappled wryneck from Olympus, bound to the four spokes" [iung- "wryneck-bird" < *ISUnJH- : <arabi^ >ISAF, a hero who became petrified] |
23.c |
"violin" |
{inasmuch as the wryneck is a deemed snake-necked bird, cf. Maya (glyphic name) Kuk-c^an "bird-snake" whose emblem is the cross, with the Yaqui "thread-cross" consisting of a spiralled string strung around a cross, as if of a musical string-instrument} |
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23.c |
"the sound of a clock striking |
152.c |
+Khalki-ope [khalki- "brass", as in brass band or brass clock] |
three" |
152.d |
Kutisoros [cf. kutisos "a kind of clover"] |
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24.c |
"Ungkok, Who sits and bends in the dim moon light" |
152.g |
"of the tortured" Prometheus ..."at nightfall" |
24.c |
"Manang Asee, Who makes a fibre from the temeran bark" |
152.h |
"moored" [with hawser] |
25.c |
"on a [mountain-]range covered with lukut" |
152.h |
"sprigs of juniper" |
25.c |
"a swift stream over a waterfall" |
152.i |
Iphitos [son of Nau-bolos, DCM, p. 225. Nau-bolos is "boat-thrower"; and a waterfall can throw over it a boat] |
25.c |
"Selampetoh the excellent blacksmith" |
152.j |
"fetters" |
26.c |
goddess "Manang, Whose lower hair is entirely white" [her pubic hair being white would be a sign that she is deadly to men sexually attracted to her] |
152.j |
among the Sauromatai (Zyrians ?) "every girl must have killed a man in battle" |
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."
EDS = Stephen R. Bokenkamp: Early Daoist Scriptures. U. of CA Pr, Berkeley, 1997.
GM = Robert Graves: The Greek Myths.
PO = Pindaros: Pythian Ode.