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" |
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"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". |
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"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)]. |
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"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. |
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the counsel |
426 |
"they sat deep in thought". |
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in flesh, and |
428 |
"Yours shall be the flesh". |
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consideration in skin." |
430 |
"finish making the face". |
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"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’}, |
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He called his wealth". {emblem of Kuvera the wealth-god is the mongoose (a type of weasel)} |
the dance of the cux [weasel], and |
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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 |
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"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).} |
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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 ... |
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... in luminous dress you will gird on light". |
And here their thoughts came out in clear light." |
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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} |
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"planets fell out of orbit. The earth shuddered ... . ... |
439 |
"they turned around ... in the sky, and on the earth". |
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Each joint of my fingers and hands was loosened ... . ... |
440 |
"now we’ll take them apart just a little" (said by deities disassembling humans). |
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My limbs fell cold. ... . |
441 |
"We’ll die from the cold". |
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... I saw in the dark ... opposing forms." |
"Jaguar Night asked". |
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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". |
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... darkness fled. ... Light shone ... . ... . |
447 |
"The light of dawn". |
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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.