9 Vasu-deva-s {9 Prati ...}------------------9 regents of the night
1. {Prati-Vasu-deva As`va-griva "horse-throat": cf. the narrow-throated fire-mare +Vad.ava} |
1. Xiuh-tecuhtli the fire-god |
2. Dvi-pr.s.t.ha: his father Brahma the primaeval god |
2. Itztli the primaeval god (from whom originated all the other deities, according to the account in Hartley Burr Alexander) |
3. {Prati-Vasu-deva Naraka, who remained unborn, an embryo} |
3. Piltzin-tecuhtli the god of youth |
4. Purus.a-uttama: his father Soma (king of the plants) |
4. Cin-teotl the maize-god |
5. Purus.a-simha: his father S`iva (whose skull was shattered, in commemoration whereof the skulls of human corpses are shattered before their cremation) |
5. Mictlan-tecuhtli the skeletal god (personifying human corpses) |
6. Purus.a-pun.d.arika " ... white water-lily" |
6. +Chalchihuitlicue, with pond |
7. Datta: his mother S`es`avati (cf. S`es.a, the water-snake). [Datta was originator of the Tantra, the texts advocating nudism.] |
7. nude +Tlazol-teotl, with snake draped over her |
8. {Prati-Vasu-deva Ravana, who lifted a mountain} |
8. Tepe-yollotl "mountain-heart" |
9. Kr.s.n.a "black" |
9. black-headed Tlaloc |
Ratna Prabha Vijaya: S`raman.a Bhagavan Mahavira. Vol. 1, Part II. Sri Jaina Siddhanta Society, Ahmedabad, 1948. p. 120: "Prati-Vasude`va". p. 121: "Vasude`vas". |
Codex Borgia, p. 14. |
Ainu----------------------------------Welsh--------------Tehuacan
Gwydion the cobbler adopted the boy Llew Llaw Gyffes. |
2. Itztli the knife-footed |
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"kesorap, "a fabulous bird with speckled feathers" (p. 137 -- spotted eagle?) "is shot down by a human man who used to be wealthy but now is poor" (p. 138; cf. pp. 139-141). |
Llew Llaw Gyffes shot a wren. |
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The kesorap "enables the poor man to take back all his possessions" (ibid., p. 138). |
The 9 Vasu-deva-s correlate with the naks.atra Punar-vasu Punar-vasu "restoring goods". |
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Llew Llaw Gyffes, for whom as wife there was created, out of flowers, a woman. |
3. Piltzin-tecuhtli whose wife was +Xochi-quetzal "flower-precious" |
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the Owl-god Kotan-kor-kamui (ibid., p. 137) |
The flower-wife of Llew Llaw Gyffes was transformed in an owl. |
5. the skull-headed owl |
the serpent-form (p. 147, fn. 6) of the Ainu fence-goddess +Nusa-kor-huchi |
7. +Tlazol-teotl's snake |
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Goronwy of the pierced stone. |
8. Tepe-yollotl the cavern-god. |
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Govannion, who killed [Llew Llaw Gyffes' twin-brother,] the boy Dylan who swam like a fish. |
9. Tlaloc, with a fish. |
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Donald L. Philippi: Songs of Gods, Songs of Humans. U. of Tokyo Pr, 1979. |
Mabinogion |
Codex Borgia |