Deluges in the Kumu-lipo (Kumu-uli-po)
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Manu-antara |
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the 7 Po-s |
the 7 R.s.i-s (7 simultaneous dynasties in the Svayam-bhuva Manu-antara) |
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210 |
909 |
a goddess entitled "sea that made the chiefs fall down" |
end of Svayam-bhuva Manu-antara |
215 |
1114 |
the 2nd goddess entitled "sea that made the chiefs fall down" |
end of Sva-rocis.a Manu-antara |
221 |
1316 |
the 3rd goddess entitled "sea that made the chiefs fall down" |
end of Auttama Manu-antara |
109 |
1533-5 |
The sea rages, rises over the beach. Rises silently to the inhabited places Rises gradually up over the land |
end of Tamasa Manu-antara |
[subsequent, prior to Maui] |
Raivata Manu-antara -- cf. Raivata = Kakudmin (Vayu Puran.a 2:26:1; 2:24:25) of Kus`a-sthali, who (2:24:26-27), with his daughter (+Revati), for one Muhurta listened to music in the world of Brahma; so that, maha-yuga-s elapsed, his city had been re-named Dvara-vati |
The foregoing is perhaps an inaccurate assessment, because Manu-s number more than this.
Better would be to suggest ½-kalpa-s (in the nomenclature of the Bhaga-vata Puran.a) , thus:-
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kalpa, etc. |
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210 |
909 |
the 1st goddess entitled " sea that made the chiefs fall down" |
end of 1st ½ of S`abda-brahman kalpa |
215 |
1114 |
the 2nd goddess entitled "sea that made the chiefs fall down" |
end of 2nd ½ of S`abda-brahman kalpa |
221 |
1316 |
the 3rd goddess entitled "sea that made the chiefs fall down" |
end of 1st ½ of Padma kalpa |
109 |
1533-5 |
[4th sea-rising = goddess entitlement] The sea rages, rises over the beach. Rises silently to the inhabited places Rises gradually up over the land |
end of 2nd ½ of Padma kalpa |
109 |
1530-45 |
the 5 Po-s (the 5 "Nights"), namely: |
Pan~ca-ratra "the 5 Nights" |
1530 |
Po-la'a (immediately before the 4th deluge) |
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1539 |
Po-elua "2nd Night" |
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1540 |
[the 3rd] "Stormy Night" |
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1541 |
[the 4th] "Night of Plenty" |
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1545 |
[the 5th] "Passing Night" (immediately after the 5th deluge ?) |
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1544-5 |
[the 5th ?] deluge |
Varaha kalpa, at beginning of which earth is covered with deluge |
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123, cf. 126 |
cf. p. 127, ll. 1927-8 |
+Wahine-lalo-hana[u], by whose relatives the land is overwhelmed with flood (but quake in Kumu-lipo account = end of Ollin-tonatiuh), after: |
1st (?) maha-yuga in [some Manu-antara of] Varaha kalpa |
[shape-shifting god = S`ata-rupa "hundred-form" as the 2rd of 4 yuga-s in the 2nd maha-yuga] |
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123, |
cf. pp. 125-7, ll. 1850-1901 |
stars have been brought as: |
Zeus seduced +Kallisto, and from this union Arkad- was born -- +Kallisto was maid-servant to +ARTEMIs (whose name is, etymologically, +ARCAMI-, aequivalent to R.CIka as the 3rd of 4 yuga-s in the 2nd maha-yuga) [stars revolve around Arkad- (Ursa Minor, the "Lesser Bear")] |
123, |
cf. p. 127, ll. 1904, 1914 |
food -- |
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118 |
cf. p. 125, ll. 1811-2 |
Wakea's son the taro (a food--plant)-god Ha-loa was buried [alive ?] |
veda-vyasa of 3rd maha-yuga was BHARGaVa: cf. PHLEGUAs who fell alive into a pit |
123 |
"Hina-kawe'o-a "craves food," and |
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123 |
Wakea sets up a row of images (ki'i), conceals himself in one of them, and from this union is born the same "cock on the back of Wakea" |
Hermes (= row of hermai, i.e. phallic idols having faces) was speaker: cf. -mukha "mouth, face" as regents of 1st & 2nd yuga-s of 4th maha-yuga |
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135 |
1985-6 |
series of brethren, all (each) named "Maui" |
series of 4 brethren, all (each) named Sana-, as the 4 yuga-s of the 5th maha-yuga |
After death of Maui, beginning of praevalence of death for all living beings |
Mr.tyu "death" as Veda-vyasa of 6th Maha-yuga |
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138 |
2055 |
Hulu-at[-the]-yellow sky: cf. Chinese convention of [clods of] soil as yellow |
Lauga-aks.i "clod-eye" as yoga-acarya of 6th Maha-yuga, according to VS |
138 |
2056 |
>ai-kanaka, who required "disposition of the excrement" [HM, p. 242] |
Vi-rajas "without dust" as 2nd yuga of 6th Maha-yuga |
138 |
2057 |
Hema "the left side" |
Jaigir-sayva "shouted to the left side" as yoga-acarya of 7th maha-yuga, |
139 |
2059 |
Ka-ha>i [born at >i-ao, HD, p. 385 -- ao "cloud"] |
Megha "cloud" as 2nd yuga in 7th maha-yuga, according to VS |
139 |
2060 |
Wahie-loa, who made an attempt to fetch a birth-gift [HM, p. 259] |
-vaha [vah "to attempt"] as 3rd yuga in 7th maha-yuga |
139 |
2061 |
La>a, who constructed as his vehicle a supernatural canoe |
Su-vahana "good vehicle" as 4th yuga in 7th maha-yuga |
239 |
2062 |
Luanu>u "dressed in kapa (tapa "barkcloth")" |
Vasis.t.ha [in whose presence exiles dressed themselves in barkcloth, RA, Ayodhya Khanda, 37) as Veda-vyasa of 8th Maha-yuga |
239 |
2063 |
Ka-mea "the cause" |
founders of Sankhya philosophy of divine causation of physical events, as 1st to 3rd yuga-s in 8th maha-yuga |
239 |
2064 |
Pohu-ka>ina [pohu "calm"; ka>ina "succession"] |
R.s.abha, latest in succession of mythical founders of Jaina philosophy of mind-calming, as yoga-acarya of 9th maha-yuga |
239 |
2065 |
Hua, who alleged to have sent his bird-catchers to the mountains (HM, p. 381) |
Giri-s`a "mountain-inhabitant" as 4th yuga in 9th maha-yuga, according to S`RS |
239 |
2066 |
Paunui-kaikea- [kaikea "sapwood"] |
Tri-dhaman "triple-tube [in physiology, the tubes carrying the sap-like body-fluids]" as Veda-vyasa of 10th Maha-yuga |
239 |
2067 |
Hua-nui->e- "fruit-great-strange [i.e., illegitimate child recognized by father against social convention (& forcibly so)]" |
Bala-bandhu "force-kinsman" as 1st yuga in 10th maha-yuga |
239 |
2068 |
Paunui-kuaka->oloke>a [kuaka "vision"] = |
Mitra, the god having 1,000 eyen, as 2nd yuga in 10th maha-yuga, according to S`iP |
(HM, p. 378) Paunui-makua [makua "sunfish'] |
Ketu-s`r.nga [cf. ketu-vallabhaka "sea-monster"] as 3rd yuga in 10th maha-yuga |
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239 |
2069 |
Haho, founder of a society of chiefs of whom "their shadow falling on the ground [would] render it tapu." (loc. cit.) |
= Nara [gnomon of sun-dial], 2nd (should be 4th) yuga of 10th maha-yuga, according to S`iP |
139 |
2070 |
Palena = [Maori] Pare-ngako, descendant (AHM 4:66) of Tu-haha [= Haw. Haho] [pale "to parry, fend off"] |
Tri-vr.t "tripling turning" [cf. kru^b with "sword which turned every way" (Br>s^yt 3:24) posted at entrance to garden of <eden as guard -- i.e., to parry weapons of attackers ?] Veda-vyasa of 11th Maha-yuga |
139 |
2071 |
Hana-la>a- "wood-shavings sacred" [cf. wood-shavings left dangling from prayer-sticks whittled Ainu-style] brethren |
Lamba "dangling" as 2nd yuga in 11th maha-yuga |
239 |
2073 |
Maui-loa, ruler of Maui, is son of the younger of the two brethren, namely of Hana-la>a-iki; whereas the rulers of Hawai>i descend from the elder of the two brethren, namely from Hana-la>a-nui (HM, p. 389) |
Thersandros, ruler of Thebai, is son of the younger of two brethren, namely of Polu-neikes; whereas Lao-damas, the son of the elder of the two brethren, ruled in Illuria (over the Dassaretai = Datta-atreya ?) |
ADRastos |
AD-tRi, as yoga-acarya of 12th maha-yuga = ADRastos |
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239 |
2074 |
Alau "branching of lineage" |
Tisamenos, in whose time there was the departure of many under Peneleos, whose later descendant was Philotas |
239 |
2076 |
LONO-MAI |
When A-nanda was asked by Maha-Kas`yapa (Kas`yapa being 2nd yuga in 13th maha-yuga) to remove the flag-staff, he was performing the pilaster-toppling act of S^ims^o^n, who died from speaking of the decaying lion, much as Maru died when RONGO-MAI appeared (deceitfully -- AHM 1:108) as a decaying whale |
239 |
2078 |
Alo "upper surface of a bowl" |
Varijas "bivalve-shell" as 4th yuga in 13th maha-yuga, according to KP |
239 |
2080 |
Mapu-leo "[wind-]wafted voice" |
S`ravan.a "hearing" as 3th yuga in 14th maha-yuga, |
239 |
2081 |
Pa>u-kei [pa>u "mat for covering canoe"; kei "dignified"] |
S`ravis.-kat.a as 4th yuga in 14th maha-yuga, according to S`iP [s`ravis. "more famous"; kat.a "straw mat"] |
The notion of a woman (goddess) as a tide (sea) which collapsed dynasties is paralleled in the Nostoi, as, e.g., in the case of +Klutaemnestra as terminating the dynasty of Aga-memnon at the sailing of war-ships to Ilion (Ilium).
Thus, the femininity of the ½-kalpa cycle may be constrasted with the masculinity of the Manu-antara-cycle, the two cycles running [& overlapping] concurrently (co-aevally) [rather than the Manu-antara cycle within the ½-kalpa-cycle].
THE KUMULIPO
A Hawaiian Creation Chant
translated and edited with commentary by
MARTHA WARREN BECKWITH
Chicago University Press
Published 1951
HM = Martha Warren Beckwith: Hawaiian Mythology. Yale U. Pr, 1940.
HD = Mary Pukui & Samuel Elbert: Hawaiian Dictionary. U. Pr of HI, 1971.
AHM = John White: Ancient History of the Maori. Wellington, 1887 (Vol. I).
RA = Rama-ayana
KP = Kurma Puran.a-m
S`iP = S`iva Puran.a-m
VS = Vayaviya Samhita
S`RS = S`ata-Rudra Samhita
Another possible parallelism might be:-
7th maha-yuga |
Kadmea |
SUR-vahaka, VS |
Nukteus the son of Hurieus (< *SURyu-) |
11th maha-yuga |
Thebai |
LAmBa-uDAra |
LABDAkos |
LAmba |
LAi[w]os |
Lamba-aks.a "dangling-eyed" |
Oidipod-, who blinded himself |
Kes`a-lamba "hair dangling" |
Kreon's praematurely white-haired protagonist Erginos |
12th maha-yuga |
Doris |
Ad-TRi, who created the moon |
Amphi-TRuon, who hurled cudgel at cow's horns [cf. "horns" of moon] |
SaDHYa |
Ptere-la[w]os, whose daughter was +Koma-iTHoI |
Varijas the bivalve-shellfish |
the bivalve-shellfish god was husband to Aphrodite, who was (according to Lucianus) first nurtured by Nereus |
13th maha-yuga |
Thraike |
NARa-ayan.a sea-god |
NEReus sea-god |
BALi |
BOReas, son-in-law of Nereus |
14th maha-yuga |
Samothraike |
Su-RAKS.AN.a |
aLEKTruON the rooster |
S`ravan.a "hearing" |
[hearing of cockcrow by adulterous couple] |
S`ravis.t.ha-ka [cf. S`ravis.t.ha, one of the naks.atra-s] |
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15th maha-yuga |
Roma |
Veda-s`iras |
Euandros / Evander, son of inventrix of alphabet |
Trayya-ARUn.i "the triple Arun.i" |
ERYlus, who had three separate lives & three bodies: he was son of another inventrix of the alphabet. |
Kun.i-BAhU [cf. Bahu, another of the naks.atra-s] |
FAUnus (?) |
Ku-s`arira "evil body" |
Cacus |
As such, these various sequences may be in different Manu-antara-s.
Here is another possible inter-cultural correlation:-
Hellenic |
Polynesian |
Zulu |
Cahuilla |
Norse |
(+Althaia' huband) [W]oineus invented wine. |
Za-Ha-Rrellel in a bowlful of fluid saw the goddess +Ma (I, p. 28). |
Bo,lverk drank from sacred vessels proffered to him by the daughter of Tjazzi. |
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Heat scorched the approachers to +Ma (I, p. 30). |
Fire on the walls of A`s-gard scorched the approaching Tjazzi. |
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Rehua's son Kai-tangata died by defaecating at the post of +Whai-tiri (AHM 1:85); or, |
Gorogo, the frog-men, captured Odu's escaped wife +Amarava, thrashing her into "a forced marriage" (I, p. 45). |
The creator-god died by defaecating into the mouth of a frog (NIE, p. 33), the frog's mouth being afterwards pinned shut with a thorn (ibid., p. 43). |
The lips of Loki were sewn shut. |
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+Whai-tiri's husband Kai-tangata was disgusted with their baby's faeces (AHM 1:96). |
Odu beat with a paddle [the buttocks of ?] +Amarava (I, p. 48). |
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After an attempted cure of the creator-god by snakes, |
Snake-venom drippeth upon Loki in the netherworld. |
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and by a horsefly, -- whereas golden hair was appreciated by the wife of bat-man (ibid., p. 70) -- |
Loki had taken the form of a horsefly to bite the dwergar who were manufacturing golden hair for To`r's wife Si`f. |
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Meleagros ("guinea-fowl") was born along with: |
Matuku the bittern was robbed of birds (HM, p. 260) by: |
Vulture-footed monster trailed +Amarava (I, p. 52). |
Crow failed to suck poison out of creator-god (ibid., p. 33). |
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an olive-branch, which was afterwards burned as firewood by woman (+Althaia), killing him. |
WAHIE-ROA "long log of firewood" (HM, p. 259). |
World-tree-god rode a fish (I, p. 32); as also Odu rode (ibid., pp. 38-40) a shark: a woman attempted (ibid., pp. 42-43) to burn to death Odu. |
Coyote was sent on needless mission to fetch firewood for cremating corpse of creator-god. |
Ygg-drasil |
Kai-tangata had praesented to him the extracted heart of a slave (AHM 1:95). |
Coyote extracted heart from burning corpse of creator-god. |
Deer-heart of clay-giant. |
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To Meleagros, +Atalante awarded honors for the swine-hunt. |
Marquesan woman gave each day a pig for VEHIE-OA (HM, p. 262) |
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On supposed behalf of his mother +Penelope "duck", Tele-makhos helped slay her suitors, but especially Amphi-nomos whom she liked best. |
On behalf of his mother +Marimba, Kahawa combatted her suitor Nangai (I, p. 77); Kahawa amputated his own hand for counteracting his mother (I, p. 78). |
Coyote was carried aloft by ducks (ibid., pp. 68) |
Ty`r had his hand bitten off by Fenrir the wolf. |
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Sister to [W]oineus was +Deianeira, attemptedly raped by AKHELOIos, cf. +AHALYa, woman viewed by the 1,000 eyen of the god. |
+"Lizuli, the whore of eternity, dances nightly before the thousand eyes of the Most Ultimate." (I, p. 87) |
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Hephaistos, inventor of a net-trap for adulterers, had his legs broken. |
Malinge, inventor of a noose-trap (I, p. 86), had his "legs broken with clubs" (I, p. 89). |
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Telephos was about to be killed with a sword his own mother Auge -- she did not recognize him because: |
Lumukanda about to be killed with a sword his own mother, without her knowing who he was (I, p. 129). |
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he had been reared by Koruthos "helmet". {Koruthos was name of the king of the Turrhenians, and founder of Cortona.} |
That mother was buried with "Her helmet on her head" (I, p. 130). {The "Strange Ones" may be the "Peoples of the Sea", who included Etruscans.} |
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Telephos tripped over a vine. |
Lumukanda "tripped over a mangrove root." (I, p. 135) |
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Telephos married +Argi-ope "lightning-face". |
A lighting-flash praesaged the advent of goddess +Watamaraka (I, pp. 143-44). |
Lightning-hammer to sanctify marriage of goddess +Freyja to Trym. |
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Telephos partook in the translating (by assumption) of woman +Iphigeneia from Aulis to be priestess of the Tauroi. |
Lumukanda had met former slave-woman +Luluma, who became (I, p. 145) translated (by assumption) in the empress's body. |
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+Persephone was carried off into the netherworld by Hades: |
+Mulinda was sealed in a cave by Vamba (I, p. 188), |
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the realm of Hades was harried by Theseus[, whose buttocks were torn off there, and whose wife Phaidra was attacked by warrior-women -- Amazones], and |
Mukingo [, who was wounded in his buttocks (I, p. 192), and whose wife Nolziwa was captured by cannibal-women], and |
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Peirithoo:s. Hades was wounded in his shoulder. |
Dombozo, who was bitten in his shoulder (I, p. 193). |
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MELANTHIos who was slain with the servant-women. |
MALANDEla, whose > 800 wives were entombed (I, pp. 225-6): |
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Cave of the Numphai on Ithake. Cavern-rivers Akheron-Kokutos-Puriphlegethon in Thesprotia of queen Kalli-dike. |
of 850 women, 516 followed +Nomikonto (I, p. 240); 228 women reached the cavern-river Lulungwa-Mangakatsi (I, p. 241); along that river 3 + 2 + 1 + 5 women died (I, p. 242); |
{Cf. Charles Leland: Algonkin Legends of New England.} |
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Skulle -- multi-headed, long-necked monster at alternative to oceanic whirlpool. |
Two-headed, long-necked, split-pupil-eyed monster at cavern-river (I, p. 243). |
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Mino-tauros. |
Burumatara "old bull" gigantic bull-god guarding exit from netherworld (I, p. 247). |
NIE = Ruby Modest & Guy Mount: Not for Innocent Ears. Sweetlight Books, Angelus Oaks (CA), 1980.
I = Vusamazulu Mutwa: Indaba. Johannesburg, 1964.