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), |
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to discourage him from continuing to work. |
to discourage him from continuing to worship the Deity. |
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"The four sides of heaven lacked pillars, ... Heaven itself ... wobbling to and fro" (SC, p.74) |
"The pillars of heaven tremble" (26:11). |
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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 : |
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"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. |
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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; |
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dropped by a pinenut-eating parrot, |
woodpecker picked them out thence; |
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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"). |
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wolf broke through the ice-wall; |
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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. |
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Tian Wan was fastened to a "big stone" (loc. cit.), but escaped. |
Theseus overturned the boulder, and thus departed (GM 95.h). |
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Tian Wan was next "tied to a big fir tree." (loc. cit.) |
Theseus escaped becoming victim (GM 96.b) of Pituo-kamptes ("pinetree-bender"). |
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Theseus escaped the giant turtle (GM 96.f). |
Turtle : |
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Tian Wang came to protect from cloth-eating caterpillars, when he: |
Theseus promised to change the sail-cloth (GM 98.d), but instead: |
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"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.) |
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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"), |
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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; |
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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 : |
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"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.