Manikhaian World-Ages = Kic^e` World-Ages

Manikhaian = Tu-jia

p.

Manikhaian

p.

Tu-jia

       

602

each internal bodily organ is of a different biological species (animals)

20

each internal bodily organ is of a different biological species (plants)

       

GB

HChM

HChM = Lihui Yang & Deming An : Handbook of Chinese Mythology. Oxford U Pr, 2005.

Manikhaian = Kic^e`

p.

Manikhaian

p.

Kic^e`

       

604

"camp above the prison

of the bound ones"

406

man’s "flesh ... was limp, it could not move".

 

"fashioned trees"

408

"woodcarvings"

 

"crafts and heavenly mysteries" {"astrology" (1st H.no^k 8:2 – SR 4:7, p. 56) "made known to them the metals" (1st H.no^k 8:1 – SR 4:7, p. 55).}

412

"the last of his metal came out."

605

"abortions plunged down to earth."

415

"boys died".

 

Atlas {was "petrified" by Perseus (GM 39.d).}

416

"Zipacna ... was changed into stone."

606

"earthquake"

417

"Cabrakan was busy shaking the mountains."

 

"Jesus ... straightened the tracks of the wind".

419

"in the tube of the blowgun ... the puff of air".

 

"Jesus went down, seizing Eve until he reached" "the world below".{Forbidden fruit was first eaten by H.awwah (LB, p. 39).}

424

the maiden Xcic touched the fruit [which had been forbidden by the deities of the Netherworld (p. 423)].

 

"The old man ... is cruel".

420

"how to torment and wound".

608

"It bound mind in bone, ...

424

alive, talking human skull.

 

insight in vein,

425

sap as heart-blood.

 

the counsel

426

"they sat deep in thought".

 

in flesh, and

428

"Yours shall be the flesh".

 

consideration in skin."

430

"finish making the face".

 

"the door of the place". {doors are usually made of oak}

431

"within the oak grove ... . ... .

610

"now he runs up his road".

 

... ran out and went hopping".

613

"He ... scatters them."

 

"breaking into a thousand pieces".

614

"I have covered them with the breastplate".

433

"fishmen" {cf. armor-plate-covered catfish in Orinoco river}

617

"He summoned his aeons of peace.

 

"The only performed the dance of the puhuy [... churn-owl] {of the churn-owl (goatsucker) in the Lesser Antilles "their fat is compared to that of olive oil" ("G"), the olive-branch traditionally emblemizing ‘peace’},

 

He called his wealth". {emblem of Kuvera the wealth-god is the mongoose (a type of weasel)}

 

the dance of the cux [weasel], and

618

"fragrant roots."

 

the dance of the [armadillo] {by smell, armadillo findeth its food underground}, and

619

"It glanced up". [and thus viewed heaven]

 

they also danced the [centipede] {C^umas^ myth : "Centipede climbs to the heavens" ("Sh", p. 71a, citing BBH).} {"The centipede may also be ... the means used to move from one level of existence to another." ("AA")} and

 

"I saw their tent pitched and a roaring fire in it."

 

the chictic [that walks on stilts]." {This may be the Daddy-Longlegs who (in Miwok myth) enabled arrival at a house containing "red hot stones from the fire" ("BTh", quoted from AIM&L, p. 217).}

620

"He released the fish to go out to sea. He let the birds fly up into space. He let the sheep into their folds."

442

"place of emergence".

640

"no ants crawl in them.

436

"hordes of ants came and found them and dislodged them".

 

The green wreaths on their heads never lose color."

437

"They were also called Green Reeds because they had resprouted."

641

"no dogs howling".

435

"Cut my dog into pieces".

 

"devoid of living plants".

437

"The reeds ... dried up".

642

"swallowing height".

438

"they were lifted into the sky".

 

"we’ll soar on wings high over the dark powers ... .

 

"they went on thinking in the darkness, in the night ...

 

... in luminous dress you will gird on light".

 

And here their thoughts came out in clear light."

644

"skiff" in danger of sinking during storm.

 

maize is brought by "four animals" {these 4 animals brought maize in a canoe which was in danger of sinking}

 

"planets fell out of orbit. The earth shuddered ... . ...

439

"they turned around ... in the sky, and on the earth".

 

Each joint of my fingers and hands was loosened ... . ...

440

"now we’ll take them apart just a little" (said by deities disassembling humans).

 

My limbs fell cold. ... .

441

"We’ll die from the cold".

 

... I saw in the dark ... opposing forms."

 

"Jaguar Night asked".

645

"Who will rip off this body and dress me in a new one? ... .

443

"they gave themselves up ... that their hearts be removed" in order to have their bodies renewed.

 

I ... saw deaths hidden by the envoy. ... .

446

"Then they celebrated the hiding of Tohil".

 

... darkness fled. ... Light shone ... . ... .

447

"The light of dawn".

 

You are the garment of my body".

449

"You may have the skins ... our symbol which you shall show".

646

"First human, ... Fear and death ... will not ravage your with pain and wretchedness."

450

"May there be no ... want or misery."

       

GB, pp. 604-8, 641-5

ILK, pp. 406-49

GB = Willis Barnstone & Marvin Meyer (edd.) : The Gnostic Bible. Shambhala Publ, Boston, 2003.

GB, pp. 602-8 = "Kephalaion" 38

GB, pp. 617-38 "Songs of Thomas"

GB, 641-3 = "Huyadagman"

GB, 644-6 = "Angad Rosnan"

ILK = Miguel Leo`n-Portilla & Earl Shorris : In the Language of Kings. W. W. Norton & Co., NY, 2001.

ILK, pp. 406-49 = "Popol Vuh"

GM = Robert Graves : The Greek Myths. 1955.

LB = Louis Ginzberg : Legends of the Bible.

SR 4:7 = Scripture Research, Volume 4 Number 7 http://www.scriptureresearch.org/publications/Vol_4_No_07-new.htm

"G" = The American Cyclopaedia, s.v. "Goatsucker". 1874. http://books.google.com/books?id=7dcXAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=

"Sh" = Ron Cherry : "Shamanism" AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST, Vol. 53, No. 2 (summer 2007), pp. 70-2.

BBH = E. Krupp : Beyond the Blue Horizon. Harper Collins, NY, 1991.

"AA" = "Ancestral Art" http://www.ancestral.com/cultures/north_america/anasazi.html

"BTh" = "The Beginning of Thunder" http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/The_Beginning_Of_Thunder-Miwok.html

AIM&L = Richard Erdoes & Alfonso Ortíz : American Indian Myths and Legends. Pantheon, 1985.