Mubupa = >iyyob

Lisu of Yun-nan

<ibri^

>ugarit

Niwadi failed in his attempt, by deceiving Mubupa through bringing false news claiming that Mubupa's only son (p. 75) and wife (loc. cit.) had died,

S`at.an failed in his attempt, after news had been brought to >iyyob informing him of the deaths of his progeny (1:18-19),

 

to discourage him from continuing to work.

to discourage him from continuing to worship the Deity.

 

"The four sides of heaven lacked pillars, ... Heaven itself ... wobbling to and fro" (SC, p.74)

"The pillars of heaven tremble" (26:11).

 

The dragon-king was grasped through the nostril with a pair of silver tongs, by the moon-man (SC, p. 81).

"Canst thou put a ring through his nose?" (40:26) Thus the LiWYatan; but a son of LeWiY was :

 

"The dragon king had no choice but to politely offer his golden crossbow" (loc. cit.).

QHAT

Of >aQHAT was demanded (ULA), and eventually seized (UMD-G), his bow.

 

DANEL of Jubilees

4:20 (antediluvian father-in-law to H.no^k)

The father of this >aqhat, however, is given as DANIL.

SC

>YB

 

SC = Lucien Miller: South of the Clouds. U. of WA Pr, Seattle, 1994.

ULA = http://www.wellesley.edu/Religion/David_Bernat/Religion_207/Sample_Materials/ugaritic.html

UMD-G = http://home.comcast.net/~chris.s/canaanite-faq.html#A2C

pinenuts as origin of death

Lisu of Yun-nan

Paviotso at Honey Lake in northeastern CA

other NV & CA

Hellenic

 

blackbird found the pinenuts in the bow-wrapping where they had been hidden by their owners;

   

dropped by a pinenut-eating parrot,

woodpecker picked them out thence;

   
 

concealing them within his leg, blackbird feigned being dead when caught by the pinenuts' owners:

Northern Paiute at Winnemucca, NV hawk concealed stolen pinenuts in its own leg (SWShM, p. 260)

Zeus concealed in his own leg the embryo of Dionusos, demi-god whose emblem is the thursos ("pinecone-wand").

 

wolf broke through the ice-wall;

   

pinecone by falling on macaque baby caused the 1st death

coyote 1st placed the pinenuts in pinecones: thereupon coyote originated death [pinenuts in pinecones = corpses in coffins?]

6th peopling of the world: frog, by diving, brought up the 1st land, wherein coyote planted pinenuts (MSSM, 1)

One of the two Kerkopes, both of whom became monkeys upon viewing (GM 136.c) bare buttocks [i.e., baboons' ?], was (CDCM, s.v. "Cercopes") Phrun-ondas "frog ...".

       

SC, p. 77

AI, vol. 15, p. 149

   

Yaudanc^i Yokuts live visitors to the world of the dead are fed pinenuts by the bridge-wardens (IMSCC, 35)

AI = Edward S. Curtin: The American Indian. http://curtis.library.northwestern.edu/viewPage.cgi?showp=1&size=2&id=nai.15.book.00000232&volume=15

SWShM = SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 136

Anthropological Papers, No. 31

Some Western Shoshoni Myths

By JULIAN H. STEWARD

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON, D.C.

[1943] http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/ca/wsm/wsm08.htm

MSSM = UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS

IN

AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY

Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 1-28 March 27, 1919

"MYTHS OF THE SOUTHERN SIERRA MIWOK"

BY

S. A. BARRETT http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/myths_of_the_southern_sierra_miwok/

IMSCC = INDIAN MYTHS OF SOUTH CENTRAL CALIFORNIA.

BY

A. L. KROEBER.

[1907]

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS

AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY

VOL. 4 NO. 4 http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/ca/scc/scc37.htm

CDCM = Pierre Grimal (tr. by A. R. Maxwell-Hyslop): A Concise Dictionary of Classical Mythology. Basil Blackwell, 1990.

Tian Wan ("Heaven Prince") = Theseus

Buyi (Thai, mostly of southern Gui-z^ou)

Hellenic

Malay

The mother of Tian Wan, the Shrimp-woman, was afterwards abducted (SC, p. 98).

The mother of Theseus, Aithra, was afterwards abducted (GM 159.s).

Tale of Shrimp &:

Those who abducted her perished in a whirlpool (SC, p. 99).

Those who abducted her perished in the sacking of Ilion.

 

Tian Wan was fastened to a "big stone" (loc. cit.), but escaped.

Theseus overturned the boulder, and thus departed (GM 95.h).

 

Tian Wan was next "tied to a big fir tree." (loc. cit.)

Theseus escaped becoming victim (GM 96.b) of Pituo-kamptes ("pinetree-bender").

 
 

Theseus escaped the giant turtle (GM 96.f).

Turtle :

Tian Wang came to protect from cloth-eating caterpillars, when he:

Theseus promised to change the sail-cloth (GM 98.d), but instead:

 

"immediately transformed into an old man. An instant later, the old man became a puff of black smoke" (SC, p. 100).

left the black one in place, causing his old man (father) to decease (GM 98.v). (Sails catch gust-puffs.)

 
 

Theseus was rescued from Aidoneus by Heraklees (GM 103.e).

Shrimp's children were rescued from Otter by Mouse-deer (MD&OCh).

GM = Robert Graves: The Greek Myths. 1955.

MD&OCh = http://www.st.rim.or.jp/~cycle/MYdeerE.HTML

Hellenic

Z^uan (Thai, mostly of Guan-xi)

constellation & netherrealm

killed by the thursos (pine-wand) wielded by his own mother was the son of the spartos ("sown man"),

   

viz. sprouted from sown tooth of the dragon who had guarded the water-spring of Ares the war-god.

Whilest "from the tooth-seedling" (SC, p. 147) grew:

Ahom "If the Umbrella stars ... are redder ... there will be war" (TA&S, p. 87 -- C48).

Ophion the serpent (GM 1:a) with his consort the goddess Euru-nome.

the gourd-ark of Fuyi [= Fu-xi, he and his sister being depicted serpent-tailed] and his sister;

 

That dragon had been slain by (SCDM, s.v. "Cadmus") Kadmos, who was son of Ogugos, the ante-diluvian (ibid., s.v. "Ogygus").

Bubo, erstwhile plucker of Thunder-god's beard, rode the deluge-waters aboard his own umbrella (loc. cit.).

Danish Torkill, plucker of Loki's beard, in the netherworld (HD)

 

At the behest of the Dragon-king, that deluge subsided :

 
 

"Bubo's red heart" (SC, p. 148) became a planet.

Corresponding (TA&S, p. 113) to the Tai "umbrella" constellation is the Khu'n constellation "red dog" -- with <arabic kalb "hound" liken <arabic qalb "heart".

TA&S = B. J. Terwiel & Randoo Wichasin: Tai Ahoms and the Stars. Southeast Asia Program, Cornell U., Ithaca, 1992. ["Assam" AhO-M = Mi-AO, cf. also AO naga]

HD = Saxo Grammaticus: Historia Danorum.