Rutra (cognate with Latin /LUTRa/ ‘otter’ – the otter-god being guardian, in Norse saga, of treasure of gold = Bodish "golden rosary") (Skt. /LUTa/ ‘spider’; /LUTAmaRkat.aka/ ‘ape’ [literally ‘spider little emerald’]) (Lat. /lutra/ & Skt. /luta/ are both feminine, /lutamarkat.aka/ masculine)
Hellenic & Latin aequivalents
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Vajrayana (most of this and the following passages from Sh&Sh) |
Hellenic & Latin |
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Rutra was born "as a black jackal, a bee with a painful sting, a worm" (ShNTCC, p. 154). Rutra, also named Kuntrin (given the empowerment-name "Black Salvation"), "was reborn several times as a huge sea monster" makara {cf. otter}; and afterwards in the Raks.asa-city Lanka of a woman who "used to consort with three Spirits -- a Deva in the morning, a Fire Genius at noon, and a Daitya in the evening. |
cf. e.g. the 3 stages of the day as mentioned in the riddle of the Sphinx |
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"Black Salvation" was reborn in the eighth month as the offspring of these three Spirits. The child was a terrible monster, black of color, with three heads, each of which had three eyes, six hands, four feet and two wings." |
cf. also Hellenic winged god Erot |
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"The mother who had given birth to this monster died nine days after its birth. ... the infant sustained his life by sucking the breasts of his mother's corpse. These yielded only a thin, watery fluid for seven days." |
"The mother who had given birth to this monster died nine days after its birth. ... the infant sustained his life by sucking the breasts of his mother's corpse. These yielded only a thin, watery fluid for seven days." "Sterope is called Airope, who was loved by Ares and died in childbirth; her son survived by sucking milk from the breast of his dead mother and was named Airopos". http://www.greecetravel.com/greekmyths/argos12.htm This woman is designated Aerope (not Airope) in CDCM. This form of Ares is named Aphneios (according to Paus. 8:44:6 -- Aph). |
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Rutra used as his "battle cry" : TUTra, Matra, MarUTra |
Latin god’s name /MUTunus (‘borrow money’) TUTunus/ = Priapos. This is the converse of /lutra/ < /lu-/ ‘pay off a debt’) : battles put one into moral (karmic) indebtedness, which must afterwards needs be paid off. |
10 demoi : "Although Pausanias says that Aleos was succeeded as king of Arcadian Tegea by his son Lykourgos, and Lykourgos by Kepheus’ grandson Echemos, Kepheus and Korythos both appear as kings of Tegea during Aleos’ lifetime. This confusion probably results from a tendency to refer to local Arcadian rulers and eponyms as kings of Tegea, the capital of Aleos’ kingdom; one of the ten demes (counties) of Tegea was named for Korythos and another for Echemos." http://www.greecetravel.com/greekmyths/argos12.htm
the 3 kaya-s :
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the __-kaya |
is __ |
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Dharma- |
Samanta-bhadra |
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Sambhoga- |
Vajra-dhara |
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Nirman.a- |
Vajra-pan.i |
the 4 daimonic guardianesses of the 4 gates into Malaya mountain (in Lanka), and their daughters :
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__-headed guardianess |
her daughter |
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mare |
White Mare-faced |
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sow |
Black Sow-faced |
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lioness |
Red Lion-faced |
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bitch |
Green Bitch-faced |
within the mountain, 8 female sentries, each having a daughter like unto herself :
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(1) Lioness, |
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(2) Tigress, |
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(3) Vixen, |
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(4) She-wolf, |
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(5) Vultur-ess, |
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(6) Kanka, [Cran-ess], |
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(7) Raven-ess, and |
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(8) Owl-ess. |
the 6 daughters of the Rutra-s:
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"She who maddens," |
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"She who frightens," |
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"The unsullied," |
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"She who dries one up," |
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"She who bears the Cup," and |
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"the bowl bearer". |
the 8 colored goddesses of the cemeteries in the directions, at "nerve-leafs of the conch-shell mansion" (brain)
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direct. |
goddess |
color |
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E |
Gauri-ma |
white |
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S |
Cauri-ma |
yellow |
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NW |
Candali |
yellow-white |
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N |
Vetali |
black |
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SW |
Ghasmari |
dark green |
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NE |
S`ona-ma |
dark blue |
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W |
Pra-mo |
red |
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SE |
Pus.kas`i |
red-yellow |
traversings of the body of Rutra interiorly, by 2 gods; and
of the body of his consort interiorly, by 2 (?) goddesses
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"Thereupon, Hayagriva at once entered the body of the Rutra by the secret path (Guhya) from below and piercing him right through from below up- wards, He showed His Horse's Head, on the top of the head of the Rutra. The oily fat of the Rutra's body made the Horse's head look green." |
(ShNTCC, p. 155) "Evil Pig" also traversed the interior of the body of Rutra, "entering through the top of the head and issuing by the rectum". {cf. the "man-headed mechanical boar" (GM 141.h) [of goddess Orthosian Artemis].} |
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"At the same time, Vajra-Varahi, His Consort, also entered the body of the Rutra's Consort Krodheshvari, in the same manner piercing and impaling her. She forced Her own Sow's head right up through the crown of the Demoness' head, until it towered above it. The Sow's head had assumed a black color, from having been steeped in the fat of the Rakshasi." |
Haya-griva was incarnate as Prama-deva.
some Hellenic aequivalents :
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Vajrayana |
Hellenic |
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Kuntrin’s servant Prama-deva (given the initiation-name "Arya-s`raddha") |
Telephos, son of (Auge) a sister of Kepheus the father of Sterope / Aerope. |
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Thubka-Z`onnu is Ucchus.ma (‘food leftover from a meal’). Trailokya-vijaya drew Ucchus.ma from his anus (RC, p. 215), so that Ucchus.ma is (apparently) god of haemerrhoids. |
Teuthran- |
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The son of Ucchus.ma (by adultery with the consort of Rutra) is Vajra-kumara, who "is a phurbu" (RC, p. 216). |
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Vajra-kumara "rolls ‘Mt. Meru phurba’ in the palms of this hands" (ETS, p. 246b); and |
This occurred on Mt. Teuthrania. |
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is "three-headed" (loc. cit.). |
3-headed Erulos (CDCM, s.v. "Erylus") was slain by Euandros the son of Ekhemos (CDCM, s.v. "Evander 3") the son (CDCM, s.v. "Echemus") of Aeropos. (Timandra is mentioned, already by Hesiodos, as mother of Aeropos -- DAA, p. 94). |
Bibliography :-
ShNTCC = Robert A. Paul : The Tibetan Symbolic World. U of Chicago Pr, 1982. (reprinted under the title : The Sherpas of Nepal in Tibetan Cultural Context. Motilal Banarsidass Publ, 1989.) http://books.google.com.au/books?id=PDAS4t3JJpoC&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155&dq=Rutra+Tibetan&source=bl&ots=XevYoeAQoA&sig=BDZjOQNv15kA76ckbD8VsD8eIgk&hl=en&ei=-y4dSuWfLpC0tge_w6CSDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4
Aph = http://www.mythindex.com/greek-mythology/A/Aphneius.html
GM = Robert Graves : The Greek Myths. 1955.
CDCM = Pierre Grimal : A Concise Dictionary of Classical Mythology. 1990.
RC = Rob Linrothe : Ruthless Compassion. Serindia Publ, 1999. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=AdtYxZoG228C&pg=PA215&lpg=PA215&dq=Rutra+Tibetan&source=bl&ots=AXQpI1ldvh&sig=jGvbMWTu5jgoZ8XatIzYAUZ9UEA&hl=en&ei=-y4dSuWfLpC0tge_w6CSDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10
ETS = Robert Beer : Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs. "The Wheel of Sharp Weapons".
DAA = ACTS OF THE COPENHAGEN POLIS CENTRE, Vol. 6 = Thomas Heine Nielson & James Roy (eds.) : Defining Ancient Arkadia. 1999. http://books.google.com/books?id=Aa9IFGkrhi8C&pg=PA94&lpg=PA94&dq=Aeropos+myth&source=bl&ots=LQ3V0UUxIs&sig=kG2Cwk_ZfleYTTSD7FTvMm1uh_Y&hl=en&ei=bVEdSpymPOCrtgfz6ImIDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPA94,M1
Sh&Sh = Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe) : Shakti and Shakta. London : Luzac & Co, 1918. Chapter 28 (taken from chapters 5-9 of the Golden Rosary of the Lotus-Born) http://www.sacred-texts.com/tantra/sas/sas28.htm – this is quoted at length (with "Rutra" altered to "Rudra") at http://www.khandro.net/deity_tale_of_two.htm