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TSIMS^IAN SEQUENCE
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HELLENIC STANDARD SEQUENCE (Apollodoros) OF
MYTHIC EVENTS [forwards sequence]
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CHINESE STANDARD SEQUENCE (Mountains
and Seas Classic) OF MYTHIC
LOCALITIES [backwards sequence]
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CYMRY (Mabiongion);
I`SLAND (Edda);
BHARATIYA
(Puran.a;
Veda);
QIC^E (Popol
Vuh)
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"at Artemis's order and [Klutaimnestra]'s
plea, [Akhilleus] intervened, saved [Iphi-geneia], and sent her to
[Skuthia]" (GM
@161.e). ["Every sailor ... shipwrecked ... is publicly
sacrificed to ... Artemis." (GM @116.b)]
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"the Country of Ranger People" (CM&S,
p. 136 10:16). {The Taurik khersonesos
may be regarded as Iphi-geneia's assigned ranging-ground, the duty
of her patrol being to disallow entry by any strangers.}
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[Tlingit] "causes the Bear to fall on his
knife" (TsM,
p. 681).
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"Artemis ... substituting ... at the altar
... a she-bear ..." (GM
@161.e) to be slain.
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"[Philo-meleides]"
(GM
@161.f -- BNP
, s.v."Philomeleides")
[\philo-\ 'loving' + \Meleides\
= \Meliades\
'nymphs of fruit-trees'.
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{\Philo-meleides
could also imply loving to
worship by means of mala
(Skt for 'rosary of beads'). \BEAD\ is cognate with \Buddhi\ (<
*\BHUDH-ti), the name of one of the 2 wives of Gan.a-pati (PE,
s.v. "Gan.apati 6)").}
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"[Phulo-nome],
daughter of [Tragasos, ... called on the flautist [MOLPos] as a
witness" (GM
@161.g). [\MOLPe\
'a "game
at ball"']
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"three drops of the
charmed liquor flew out of the cauldron and fell upon the finger
of Gwion Bach." (Gu:M,
p. 472 ) [This act was of playing
catcher, as though in a game at
ball.]
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{GAN.a-patI "in the guise of
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Gwion [< *\GWONI\] Bach, when reborn as
"Taliesin", recounted :
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{Moon-denizens
"roast frogs, great numbers of which are always flying in the
air" (L:AD
I.23).}
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"I have fled with vigour, I have fled as a
frog,
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a crow went and sat on the brink of the
Kaman.d.ulu [ascetic's ewer] and ... holy water ... distributed
among devotees" (PE,
s.v. "Gan.apati 5)").}
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I have fled in the
semblance of a crow, scarcely finding rest" (Gu:M,
p. 475). After his death, Gwion Bach
became redincarnate as
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Tenes
and his sistre "were washed ashore on the island ... hitherto
called [Leuko-PHRUs], which means 'white brow'." (GM
@161.g)
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"Open[-]brow Country" (CM&S,
p. 136 10:16). [This may referr to the shining, through the
forehead, of
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Taliesin 'Radiant
Brow', found, as an infant, abandoned in a "leathern bag upon
a pole of the weir" (for catching salmon : Gu:M,
p. 474). [\TaliEsiN\ might be
abbreviated to \TENes\;
likwise, Latin divine name \TALaSSIoN-\
might be a deformed variant of \TALieSIN\.]
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[cf. also
\PHRUne\
'toad' : a certain species of toad employeth the pineal gland as
3rd eye.]
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luminance
emanating from the cakra Ajn~a
of the pineal gland.]
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"pretends to cut bait off his own"
(TsM,
p. 681).
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"[Tenes]
... cut the cables of ... ship" (GM
@161.g).
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"The land of Chest[-]slave" (CM&S,
p. 136 10:16). [slave-of-love
via heart-strings?]
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"a servant called [Mnemon]
accompanied him for the purpose of reminding ... of" Tenes,
but "failed to remind" (GM
@161.h). [Was his speech paralyzed?]
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{Due to his neglect to worship Gan.a-pati,
Indra's "hands became benumbed, and he stood aghast."
(PE,
s.v. "Gan.apati 7)", p. 273b).}
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Taliesin paralyzed
the speech-organ of bards, reducing them to "pouting out
their lips, and making mouths at the king" (Gu:M,
p. 480).
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"He throws in the red-hot stones."
(TsM,
p. 681)
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"[Tenes]
hurling a huge rock
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from a cliff"
(GM
@161.h).
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"Mount High" (CM&S,
p. 136 10:15).
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"[Akhilleus] also killed [Kuknos] with a
blow to the head, his only vulnerable part" (GM
@161.h). [\KUKn-\ may well be cognate with *\HUHm-\ > \Hymir\.]
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When Hymir's head had contacted a goblet,
"suddenly all his strength had ebbed from him."
Thereupon, To`rr and Ty`r returned to "Egil's farm" (NG
"LHy"). [\EGIL\ is cognate with \AKHILLeus\.]
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"He calls the animals and looks at their
backsides." (TsM,
p. 683) [It would be their tail
that is inspected.]
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"The land of Banner[-]tail Horse"
(CM&S,
p. 136 10:15). {"to fix the head of a horse to the trunk of
Yajn~a." (PE,
s.v. "Hayagriva
V.1)", p. 312a)}
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As`va-griva
('Horse-Throat', also known as Haya-griva)
is (TS`PC
4.I.17) a Prati-vis.n.u (protagonist of Vis.n.u) or as (TS`PC
I.VI.11) the 1st of the 9 Prati-vasu-deva-s.
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"a water-snake approached the altar and
bit [Philo-ktetes]
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"The Big Snake eats elephants" (CM&S,
p. 136 10:14).
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"the naga
called Kekara[-]lohita (PE,
q.v. : Vamana
Puran.am
8) caught hold of
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"his ankle has been broken in the house of
shadows" (TsM,
p. 683).
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in the foot." (GM
@161.i)
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"Its people have ... no feet." (CM&S,
p. 136 10:13)
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him
[i.e., Cyavana], dragged him {as though he lacked feet for
walking} and
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"[Kalkhant-] prophesied" (GM
@161.d). [cognate with (DMWA,
p. 1209a) \HALiylAJ\ 'emblic myrobalan', which is the primary
ingredient in the medicine of blind
Cyavana
(W"Chyawanprash")]
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"it has an inner skin that looks ... like
a yellow snake ..., and its fruit is like that of the pomelo."
(CM&S,
p. 136 10:12)
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bit
him. The serpent released him ..., and ... he visited
Naimis.aran.ya."
[\NIMIS.a\ 'blink of the eye'; \KEKARa\ 'squint-eyed']
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"Raven comes ... to steal the bait ... .
... Eventually his beak is caught, and ... the fishermen tear off
his beak. ... Meanwhile Raven makes an artificial jaw" (TsM,
p. 684).
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"battered furiously at his [i.e., that of
Kuknos 'swan'] face with the hilt of his sword" (GM
@161.f).
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"Notch Flaw has a dragon's head and lives
in the River Weak." (CM&S,
p. 136 10:11) [Are these "notches" gaps left in the jaw
when its teeth are pulled out?]
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"Vucub-Caquix
['7 Macaw'] ... was injured by a ... blowgun which struck him
squarely in the jaw"
(Popol
Vuh
1:6, p. 21). "Very
well, ... these teeth are pulled and others put in their place."
(Ibid., p. 24).
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"[Lukaon]
... was cutting fig-tree shoots for use as chariot-rails."
(GM
@161.i)
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"an officer called Chief Track"
(CM&S,
p. 135 10:10). [track for use by chariots?]
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Crossroads (CBM,
p. 14 centre).
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Instead of arousing Pitch, the same is left
reclining under a mat, until silent (TsM,
p. 683).
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"[Ant-enor
{'instead of arousing' (\enor-nu-mi\
'I arouse')}]" (GM
@162.a).
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Men are treated in their eyen (put to sleep?)
(CBM,
pp. 15-16).
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"Raven goes into the woods" (TsM,
p. 684).
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"Tall elm trees ... stand within his
precinct and overshadow the tomb."
(GM
@162.c)
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Double tree overshadoweth a skull-headed god
(CBM,
p. 19, lower registre).
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"brought up [Protesi-la[w]os]'s
ghost from [Tartaros] to animate the statue." (GM
@162.d)
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"The Lord of the Summer, Open" (CM&S,
p. 135 10:10). ["the rock split open to reveal Open"
(CM&S,
p. 238).]
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Earthquake glyph (CBM,
p. 25 centre). [to split rock?]
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[Comox] Pitch's "two sons make war against
the sun" (TsM,
p. 684).
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"[Protesi-la[w]os]
founded the city of [SKIOne]."
(GM
@162.e) [\SKIOtos\
'striped']
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Under a half-darkened (1/2-overcome?) sun, a
striped
god provideth water for a
pair of helmeted warriors and for a
living skeleton (ghost?) (CBM,
p. 27 centre).
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"he tells his jaw to break off. It has a
long beard." (TsM,
p. 684)
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"[Troilos]
... being then ... with ... a flowing beard" (GM
@162.g).
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Denizens of the comets "have beards,
however, just above the knee" (L:AD
@I.23).
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[Nass] "his nose comes off." (TsM,
p. 684) {cf. vainly cutting off one's nose to spite one's face :
Thus, by giving away Briseis,
Priamos forfeited the survival his own city Ilion, merely in order
vainly to demonstrate his generosity toward his prime foe.}
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"[Troilos]
... loved Briseis
{'pressed', so named because she was compelled to become concubine
to her lover's foe Aga-memnon},
[Kalkhant-]'s ... daughter," but "[Kalkhant-] persuaded
[Aga-memnon]
to ask [Priamos] for her" (GM
@162.h).
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"there is a rhinoceros which ... is black"
(CM&S,
p. 135 10:9).
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The Jaina tirthankara
whose emblem is a rhinoceros is S`reya-ams`a-natha,
whose male s`asana-devata
is (TS`PC
4:I:25) IS`-VARa
: cognate with \IK[aW]ARos\, name of (DCM,
s.v. "Icarus") a Karian king, whose lover is Kalkhant-'s
sistre Theo-noe
('Divine Mind').
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"[Poseidon]
... knew that the royal line of [Aineias] must eventually rule"
(GM
@162.k).
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"The live-lively apes know the names of
humans.
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"Pitch desires to return when the sun
rises ..., but melts and runs over the halibut ... . ... They go
out together, but both Gum and Frost melt ... ." (TsM,
p. 683) [In melting, both pitch and gum become flat.]
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In "[Hupo-plakian [i.e., at the base of mt
PLAKos {\PLAKites,
PLAKoeis\ 'flat',
scil. topped}] Thebai],
...
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\Andro-MAKHe\
may be cognate with \MAHI\,
name of a Vaidik goddess associated with Vaidik goddess Id.a
(= mt Ide
in the Troad).
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"Raven takes
home the pitch that is gathered in the canoe
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another
[Eetion
{< *\AWACIson\}],
father of [Hektor]'s
wife [Andro-makhe],
... ruled" (GM
@162.l).
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These are animals like hogs" (CM&S,
p. 135 10:8). [piggy-banks, whereinto are gathered
coins (OBOLoi in corpses' mouths, alike unto their cognate, APPLes
in Christmas-porkers' mouth)]
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Skt participle \AVACIta\ 'gathered',
verb \AVACI\ 'gather (as, fruits from a tree)'
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in order to
calk the artificial whale that the animals have made." (TsM,
p. 683)
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"killed
[Eetion]
..., but did not despoil the corpse : ... it fully armoured {were
the armor's joints calked?} and around the barrow ...,
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[Is this whale aequivalent to the Tar-Baby (in
renditions of Creek {from Alabama} tribal myth)?]
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mountain-nymphs planted a grove of elm-trees."
(GM
@162.l)
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"Drift forest is 300 leagues square."
(CM&S,
p. 135 10:8) {drifting in a sea, as of the Sargasso Sea?}
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"set with trees; they had no roots, but
yet remained in their places, floating upright" (L:AD
@II.42).
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"as soon as Pitch dies, his house becomes
changed into a green spruce tree" (TsM,
p. 683).
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"Mount Blue[-]plane[-]tree" (CM&S,
p. 135 10:7).
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"Their ears are plane-leaves" (L:AD
@I.25).
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"He makes a new nose of bark covered with
pitch" (TsM,
p. 685).
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"Rhinoceros land" (CM&S,
p. 135 10:6).
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Prati-eka-buddha-s are metaphorically
characterized as rhinokeroi.
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"He calls Screech Owl, pulls off his beak"
(TsM,
p. 685).
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"Owl[-]sunny Country" (CM&S,
p. 135 10:5).
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"A stick is pushed through his body ... .
... he ... then flies away. The child to whom he has been given
shouts, "My food is flying away, mother!" (TsM,
p. 685)
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"Tattoo[-]brow Country" (CM&S,
p. 135 10:4).
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On the forehead of each S`aiva devotee is
marked a tri-s`ula
(PE,
q.v. : Vis.n.u
Puran.a
3:2; a 3-pronged fork for impaling
food),
which is made by
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"[Akhilleus] also brought away the swift
horse [PEDAsos]"
(GM
@162.l). [\PEDAlion\
'rudder'] {Pedasos
may archetypally be a flying vehicle steered by a human pilot.}
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Vis`va-karman,
maker also of the vimana
(ae:rial chariot for flying) Pus.paka. "a white horse you
gave to PEDU" (R.VS
1:8:6)
"with nineandninety" (AV"Pedu" -- R.VS
10:
39:10), possibly Uran.a.
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"a gold ring hung upon a child"
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"Sag[-]ear country" (CM&S,
p. 135 10:4).
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"Astounded ..., they both agreed to resign
their claims ...
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"Lord[-]worry country
{worried about the injustice of one's claims?}
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in favour of [Sar-pedon]"
(GM
@162.n). [\sar\ 'psar
(starling)-shaped'
+ \pedos\
'mahaleb-cherry for axle']
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lies east of Turn[-]corner land."
(CM&S,
p. 135 10:4) {Among birds whose flights can turn abruptly, are the
starlings.}
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"Zeus had rained blood at the death of
[Sar-pedon]."
(L:AD
I.17) [star-fallen cherry-liqueur?]
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"He comes down the river on several rafts,
which he mans with what seem to be people" (TsM,
p. 685) but are not real.
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"[Odusseus] on a foraging expedition to
[Thraike]
... came back empty-handed" (GM
@162.o). (His seeming
intent is surely a fake.)
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"The land of Cinnamon Forest Eight[-]trees
{these
8 trees likely repraesenting a personal bribe, given by
Thraikians,
so as not
to forage}
lies
east of
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"It
has seven gates, each made of a single Cinnamon Plank." (L:AD
II.11) {Cf. also Sindbad's cavern-built raft
of aromatic timbers.}
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[Haida] "he wants ... sea eggs {roe}; they
throw these at him" (TsM,
p. 686). [roe glisteneth as do nuggets]
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PALA-medes
successfully went on a similar expedition, but returned "with
a ship-load" of loot (GM
@162.o). [\PALA\ 'nugget']
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Turn[-]corner land." (CM&S,
p. 135 10:3)
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To loot the Thraikians
could invite aggression from them : the Hellenes were in imminent
danger of this if they would not punish Pala-medes.
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"[Aga-memnon],
[Odusseus], and {Dio-medes]
were all implicated in this plot" (GM
@162.q).
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"Mount Three Sky[-]sons Block" (CM&S,
p. 135 10:2).
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These 3 blocked
Pala-medes
scheme to destroy the Hellenes by provoking the Thraikians.
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"Mink makes a fire in the whale's stomach
and dries the herrings" (TsM,
p. 687).
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{Because Mink was once partially "roasted",
"he smells again like roasted meat." ("WhMS")}
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"We ... keep a good fire ... in ... the
monster [i.e., within the whale]" (L:AD
@I.34).
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"cut a hole into the whale from on top ...
down to the stomach" (TsM,
p. 688).
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"pretending
to have discovered a treasure in a deep well" (GM
@162.r).
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"The land of Basin" (CM&S,
p. 135 10:1). {'Basin, bowl; haloed moon' are each, in Skt,
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In the palace on the Moon there is "a well
of no great depth; any one going down the well can
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"Porpoise Woman can hear what he says; she
interprets his words" (TsM,
p. 686).
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\kun.d.a\
: through Kun.d.alini
Yoga one "may hear voices
or sounds from other realms"
("ChEAP").}
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hear every word spoken on our Earth" (L:AD
@I.26).
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