Yoruba----------------------------------------------------------<ibri^
"Osanyin is owner of the herbs ... in the various leaves" (p. 71). |
>a^da^m clad himself in leaves. |
E-GuN is [exile ?] in forest. |
QayiN was exiled to land of Nod. |
O-GuN "is the patron of blacksmiths" (p. 70). |
Tu^bal-QayiN was the first blacksmith. |
Os^osi "is a pioneer deity" & "hunter" (p. 70). |
Nimrod "was a mighty hunter". |
"the primordial village" ILE-ife (p. 73) |
primordial ("without father, without mother") Melki^-s.edeq, priest of >el <ELYo^n ("god most high") |
Oba-tala is "the father of laughter" (p. 66). |
>abram is the father of Yis.h.aq "laughter". |
S^ango "imprisoned an incognito" Oba-tala; but "upon recognizing" Oba-tala, S^ango released him (p. 67). |
The king of Gra^r seized the wife [each] of >abram & of Yis.h.aq while they were incognito husbands; but upon recognizing their husband-status, the king of Gra^r released the wife [of each]. |
Of S^anGo, the 3 wives, all rivers -- +Oya, +oS^uN, +OBa (p. 74). |
{S^uQ "to overflow"} The 3 wells of Gra^r -- <es`eq, S`it.Na^h, rh.OBo^t (BR>S^YT 26:20-22), rh.OBo^t meaning "streets": |
Orun-mila is "a quaternity" (p. 68). |
Ya<qob had 4 spouses. |
ES^U & Orun-mila "are the closest of friends" (p. 68). |
<ES`aW & Ya<qob are brethren. |
ES^U "travels the earth" (p. 69). |
<ES`aW travelled while hunting. |
Oba-tala saw "the redness" of ES^U's clothes, while S^ango saw only "their blackness"; each afterwards "reverses" this point of view and "both apologize" (p. 69). |
<ES`aW was known as >do^m "ruddy"; and was [mistakenly] recognized (by Yis.h.aq) for his clothing; this point of view was afterwards reversed, with apology duly rendered. |
ES^U "is a trickster who delights in confusion, mayhem ..." (p. 69). |
{ditto for <ES`aW / >do^m, in mediaeval literature} |
For Orula, the wristlet "is placed on the left wrist" (p. 284), whereby |
Huitzil-opochtli "hummingbird to the left" |
"we are at the fork before two roads" (p. 286). |
led the Aztecs out of Aztlan, much as Mos^eh led of of Mis.rayim. |
+Osun of "the little bells" (p. 283). |
Huitzil-opochtli's sister +Coyol-xauhqui ("silver bells") = +Miryam the sister of Mos^eh. |
S^OPPona "is a deity ... of ... epidemic diseases". "He is addressed as Oba luwaiye, "king of the world"." (p. 71). |
Yho^S^U^<a exterminated (like an epidemic ?) the indigenous population [of Kan<an]. He was the first s^apat. ("judge"). |
"Oko is a phallic deity ... with huge genitals." (p. 76) |
Cf. with the Sardinian place-name Sassari: Si^sra> who {according to mediaeval legend} repeated copulated with |
"His emblem is an iron rod and |
{cf. magnet-god Magnet-, father (according to Hesiodos) of hymen[-bursting] god Humenaios, whose attribute is the torch: "torches" (for smoking out bees from their hives) [feminine plural !] Lappido^t being the alleged huband (in S^PT.YM 4:4) of:} |
his messengers are the honey bees." (p. 76) |
+Dbo^ra^h "female honey-bee": cf. beehive-shaped nuraghi in Sardinia. |
S^ango "assuming the titles and emblems of an older [oris^a] Jakuta ... as hurler of thunderbolts" (p. 73). |
>bi^-melek of Gra^r was namesake to that >bi^-melek who at Tebes. was slain by (S^PT.YM 9:53) a millstone's being dropped upon his head. |
The legitimate son of biaGE, Adototo`, became dispossessed of his inheritance by his brethren; but regained it (p. 233). |
The son of GIl<ad, Yeptah., became dispossessed by his brethren (S^PT.YM 11:2); but was appointed chief nevertheless (S^PT.YM 11:11). |
OBi was confronted by a beggar (p. 232). |
>iyOB was reduced to beggary. |
Joseph M. Murphy: Ritual Systems in Cuban Santeria. PhD diss., Temple U., 1980. |
TNK |