Iban Gawai Umai = voyage of the Argo

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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)]

     

[So also according to Pindaros, 4th Pythian Ode, did these events praecede the voyage to Kolkhis (of GM 151.a-154.f)]

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}

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"]

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.

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