<Arabi^ mythology
major goddesses & their male relations:-
>al-LAT, 1 of 3 sistren -- derived from latta "to pound, bray, crush" (A-ED, p. 1006) [this is done to egg-shells in vodun] |
LEDa, 1 of 3 sistren -- she was wife of Tundareos, cognate with "to tund", scil. (praesumably) the egg-shell of Nemesis (since its fragments are displayed in the temple of the Leuk-ippidai, |
BE^D.a "egg" |
1 of the Leuk-ippidai being PHOIBe |
MaNAh "fate" (EAI, p. 144), another of the 3 sistren -- she was imported (EAI, p. 151) from Ma->ab, a country cognate with <ibri^ >ob "oracle from ghosts" |
huper-MNEstra, another of the 3 sistren -- mother of Amphi-araos, who explained the name Arkhe-moros ("beginning of doom") |
>al-<uzza "mighty" (EAI, p. 131), still another of the 3 sistren -- she was worshipped at al-Hira together with SABAD (EAI, p. 134), = SUBUD of Indonesia |
[W]Althaia, cognate with "wield" (scil., power), still another of the 3 sistren, and mother of the woman raped by the horned god Akheloios -- cf. the horned god SABAZios |
the altar of >al-<uzza was GaBGaB (EAI, p. 139): GB "to attack (of fever)" (A-ED, p. 778) |
Althaia burned up her own son praeternaturally (cf. a fever) |
>al-Lahh, father of the 3 daughters. He is the enemy [originally, hunter ?] of swine |
putative father of the 3 daughters was Thestios, who drowned himself in the river afterwards known as Akheloios; in grief for his son Kaludon, in whose name was the swine hunted; but: |
Muh.ammad [who is actually worshipped, to the exlusion of >al-Lahh, by the Gulat] rode into heaven, into the praesence of >al-Lahh, on a flying white horse |
actual father [of the 3 daughters] was Glaukos, who after being eaten alive was renamed TARaKS-ippos = TARKS.ya, in the Veda a winged horse |
This white horse was Buraq; and meaning of the name >al-Lahh is "insane" |
Leuk-ippos "white horse" was king of MESSEenia, cognate with Samskr.ta MATTA "insane" |
LATT (of Ta>if, sitter on square rock to praepare square meals, EAI, p. 103) |
[another Leuk-ippos was paramour of Daphne, whose father is] LADon = Kemetian 3TN (god worshipped at Tel Amarna) |
Concerning Zamzam = <ibri^ Zamzummi^m:-
>isaf (a man) & Na>ilah (a woman) had sexual intercourse in a temple, and thereupon were transformed into stone (EAI, p. 153). |
Kadmos (a man) & Harmonia (a woman) had sexual intercourse in a temple, and thereupon were transformed into stone. |
These copulating stone figures (EAI, p. 157), displayed in their nudity (EAI, p. 158), were located at a water-well, Zamzam (EAI, p. 153). |
Kadmos had slain the dragon-guardian of the water-spring of Ares. |
>iSAF= >aSAP, the music-composer for Dawi^d |
Kadmos retrieved lyre-strings (according to Dionusiaka of Nonnos). |
ZAMZAM is cognate with ZAMan "time, duration" |
Kadmos & Harmonia dwelt among the En-KHELEoi -- cf. HALA-Yudha (= Sam-kars.ana) whose wife experienced 28 maha-yuga-s of time-duration of her lifespan contracted while attending a musical concert |
Other goddesses include:-
RUD.a / Rd.w / Rd.y, depicted as "a female dancer, naked and holding her tresses in her hands" (EAI, p. 163) |
RUPin.i (the wife of Kama) is similarly depicted. |
Kutra "the most rich" (EAI, p. 164), a female |
Dhanis.t.ha = (?) Themisto (wife of ATHAMas = >ADAM the 2nd) |
Suwa< (female, EAI, p. 168; apparently wife of WADD, EAI, p. 169 -- wadi^ is a wadeable rivulet) = <ibri^ woman's name S^u<a> "a call for help" |
wife of Vadi (Norse) / WADe (Old English) who waded http://home.earthlink.net/~jordsvin/Paths%20To%20The%20Gods/Wayland%20Smith%20Article.htm |
Male gods include:-
HUBaL |
HUmBLe the 2nd (grandson of HumBLe the 1st in Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus) http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/OMACL/DanishHistory/book1.html , he willingly resigned his kingship; just as Lae:rtes (grandson of KePHaLos) likewise did. |
Hubal had divination-arrows (EAI, p. 172), and praesided over the 36 (not 360, EAI, p. 175, fn. 13) idols at the Ka<ba of Makka |
arrows may denote directions of constellations (scil., from the earth), as in Sagittarius & Kentauros; 36 are the dekanoi constellations |
du >al-KAFFe^n "owner of two palms (of the hands)" (EAI, p. 192) |
GAJa-asura, gaja being aequivalent to hastin "hand-possessing" |
du >al-H^alasa, worshipped as a "quartz stone" (EAI, pp. 196, 199) |
the god Varun.a [= Norse Vo,lund the son of Vadi] worshipped a linga of quartz |
YaGut (cf. Gatiy "NAUSea") = <ibri^ Y<us^ (B-r>s^yt 36:5, 14, 18) |
NAUSithoos, pilot of the ship to the MInoTauRos = MITRa |
(?) = S`e^< >al-Qo^m "[the god who] accompanieth (EAI, p. 204) or protecteth (EAI, p. 206) travellers" [not leonine] |
Man.i-bhadra (patron-god of travellers) = Irish Morna |
FALs, god of [circular] money-coins (EAI, p. 207) |
JALan-dhara (around whom was inscribed a circle, which circle he lifted) = Irish GOLL mac Morna |
Ya<UQ, cf. <o^q "hindering, impeding" = <ibri^ Ya<qaN (Dbry h-Ymym > 1:42) -- his sanctuary was (EAI, p. 215) at Bila<un [= nabi^< Bil<am who encountered encountered so many obstacles in attempting to formalize a curse] |
the daemones ViGHNa-s "obstacles" |
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Ma-naf, from NWF (EAI, p. 216), cf. nafyiy "negative" (A-E D, p. 1159): |
Nukteus may be cognate with "NUGatory"; |
cf. also nufaya "garbage" and (A-E D, p. 1151) naffa "to blow one's nose" |
Nukteus' father was noted for urinating |
>al->uqe^s.ir "shorter" (EAI, p. 219), so named because of hair-shortening (EAI, p. 220) |
Hrasva-roman "short-haired" |
<amm->anas "father's brother of >nos^" -- this will be a brother of S^eT |
some "brother" of TaD-purus.a |
>al-Jalsad, custodians of whose idol were the banu <allaq (EAI, p. 223), cf. <alaq "leech", <ibri^ <luqah "vampiress", and <ilq "precious thing, object of value". JAL- may = <ibri^ GULGOLet "skull", and -SAD may = <ibri^ S^ED "daemon" |
Kranaos, whose name is a variant of kranion "skull". |
Sa<d "good fortune", whose idol was at JuDDa (EAI, p. 226), cf. JaDD "good luck" (A-ED, p. 135), taJDiD "rejuvenation" (A-ED, p. 136) |
cf. [h]ethos "customs, manners", Samskr.ta sadhana "practice, exercise", said rejuvenate one's body |
Nasr (Aramaic Nas^ra, EAI, p. 229) "vulture" (mistranslated "eagle" in King James` version): vulture & cobra (each female) repraesented the 2 Mis.rayim -- |
2 "eagles" or 2 snakes which fed on liver of Tituos: |
In Deuteronomy, the Holy Spirit assumeth the form of a she-vulture hovering over her nestlings -- the name is imparted of YAH / Yhwh |
"liver" is in Latin jecur, in Samskr.ta YAKr.t |
Nuhm "greed" (EAI, p. 232; A-ED, p. 1178) |
cf. Latin nuc- "nut" -- (?) Hellenic Karuatid- goddesses |
<OP "compensation" (EAI, p. 233), <ibri^ <u^s. |
APam Napat = Latin Neptunus |
Su<e^r, in <ibri^ S`<i^r [though the correspondence of s : s` be irregular] |
Saturoi (viz., the Septuagint translation of S`<iri^m) |
minor deities:-
>al->aS`HAL "blue" (specifically, "blue-eyed") (EAI, p. 236) |
KoKALos |
>al->aSWAD "black" (EAI, p. 236) |
goddess SVADHa of SVADHis.t.hANA = [W]ATHENE |
>AWAL "interpreter" (EAI, p. 236) |
British AVALon |
<OP, "a bird of prey" (EAI, p. 237) |
AJamila / AJamid.ha = Zarathustrian ahura MAZDa |
Ba<im, <ibri^-style plural of BU<BU< "bugaboo, bogey" (A-ED, p. 79), cf. bw< "to surprise" (A-ED, p. 100) |
BHUta = PHUtalos, cultivator of the fig: when, surprised by the end of the world, stars will fall like figs (according to Revelation of St. John 6:13) |
BAJaR "big-bellied" (AEI, pp. 237-8) |
BAHu-Rupa "thick (Hellenic pakhu-) form" |
(?) = Bahir (EAI, p. 237), Bahir being the text of the Qabbalah, treating of the 10 Spi^ro^t (numbers) |
the tetraktus of 10 according to PUTHagoras, who was the archetypeof the BUDdha of the 10 bhumi-s |
>al-BUJJah |
Latin BUHo "owl" / Boohoo |
Balaj (<ibri^ BILGay) ibn >al-Muharraq "emerging son of the lighted" (EAI, p. 238) |
PHILoKtetes, who lighted the funeral pyre |
BAWANa |
Bhava & his wife BHAVANi |
>al-DaWaR (the name of a jail, EAI, p. 240) & (EAI, p. 239) MA-DWaR |
DHUR-jat.i & MADHURa |
>al-D.aMar "lean" (EAI, p. 240), cf. d.amir "conscience" (AE-D, p. 637) |
PoMona (fruit-goddess, cf. "fruits of the spirit"), wife of Vertumnus ("turning", scil. from sin) |
D.ARiH. "tomb, grave" (EAI, p. 240; A-ED, p. 632) |
Latin PARCae, the fate-goddesses |
dat >anwat "things suspended" (EAI, p. 241) -- "tree ... pilgrims used to hand their clothes ... on its branches, then proceed to perfom the pilgrimage to the Ka<ba in complete or partial nudity" (loc. cit.) |
Acyuta Kr.s.n.a hid the clothing of the go-pi-s (cow-herderesses) in a tree, compelling them to display themselves nude (according to the Bhagavata Puran.a) |
>al-D.E^Zanan (dual of d.e^zan) "two tombs" (EAI, p. 242) |
? PICti -- cf. portrait-coffins from Hellenistic Aiguptos |
du >al-LaBBa -- The term "La-ba-tu" is one of the attributes of Is^tar (EAI, p. 242) |
Latin goddess LiBitina (in Liburnia ?), goddess of the libido |
du >al-RiJL "the one with the leg" (EAI, p. 243) |
RaHuLa, son of S`akya-muni |
Farras "to prey upon" (EAI, p. 243); "to ravish, rape (a woman)" (A-ED, p. 825) |
Samskr.ta pra-matha "rape (a woman)": whence, the name Prometheus |
Farrad. "to impose on" (EAI, p. 243); cf. fard.a "notch, crevice; sea-port" (A-ED, p. 826) |
Pr.thu = Latin Portunus, god of sea-ports |
Ganm "booty" (EAI, p. 243): cf. <ibri^ <nami^m (a district of the Mis.rayim); or else, <nammelek (god of >as^s^ur) |
Hellenic anemos, Latin animus |
H.ALal "legal, legitimate" (EAI, p. 244; A-ED, p. 232) |
the god [Tantrik] a-CALa (of Arun.a-acala = Etruscan Aruns) |
Humam "bravery, protection" (EAI, p. 244) = <ibri Ho^mam -- cf. ta-hmim "lulling to sleep by singing" (A-ED, p. 1211) |
Hermes, who lulleth to sleep [Argos Pan-optes] by singing |
Jihar "loud-voiced" (EAI, p. 244), cf. jihar "publicity" (A-ED, p. 169) |
god Phanes (and cognates "banns", "banner") |
>al-GARIYYan "the two tombs (of those buried alive)" (EAI, p. 245) |
ARYaman, praesiding over the galaxy, path of the dead |
Kulal "crowned" (EAI, p. 249); "perfected, completed" |
Siddha "perfected" |
>al-MA-DAN = <ibri^ Mdan = As^s^urian Madanu (EAI, p. 250) |
DAN, founder of den-MArk (according to Saxo Grammaticus) |
Ma-rh.ab "hospitality, welcoming" (EAI, p. 251; A-ED, p. 382) -- reference to the welcoming by hostess Rah.ab in y-RiH.O^ (cf. <arabi^ RaH.aWiy "rotatory") |
RoCana Indra, RauCya Manu; & Vis.vaksena = [W]Iksion, on rotating wheel in sky |
>al-Muh.arraq "black" (EAI, p. 251), viz. (A-ED, p. 200) "charred, scorched" |
Dahana = Zaratustrian Az^i Dahaka, from Samskr.ta dah "to scorch" |
>al-Mu-n-t-abiq "the closed", bronze ventriloquist (EAI, p. 251), cf. (A-ED, p. 1103) anbiq "alembic (distilling-flask)" |
Eurukleia, for the Euruklides ventriloquists |
S`ums "sun (goddess, feminine !)" (EAI, p. 252); but cf. s^amasa "to be headstrong, balky (of horse)" (A-ED, p. 567) |
N.B. the horses of Phae:thon were balky |
>al-Zun "pantheon-display; lion" (EAI, p. 253) |
Olumpos (abode of Hellenic paantheon) |
The 5 statues, origin of:-
Wadd, Suwa<, YaGut, Ya<uq, & Nasr died within one month of each other (EAI, p. 180), according to >al-Kalbi^ |
5 Kemetian epagomenal days (intercalary) |
The jurHuM-ites formerly controlled (EAI, p. 181) Makka (and thus Zamzam) -- they are the city HaM in the Torah, HaMazi to the Sumerians. JUR is <ibri^ GUR, the prima materia for al-chemy. |
(?) The H^urrian city KUMiya, later COMMagene |
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[written 3\8\2006 (3rd of August, 2006)]