Iban Gawai Batu = Kojiki
section |
citation (BW&RM, pp. 224 to 241) |
section |
citation (K) |
1.c |
"a jew's harp with long strings." |
23 |
"the heavenly speaking-lute" |
2.c |
"lashed by the Tawang trader's ropes." |
24 |
"Without having yet untied even the cord" |
3.c |
"Telu Aur, a single seed" |
25 |
"a single eulalia" |
4.c |
"He who can slash the tidal bore as it rises, Patinggi Serit Ahmit has also come, He who can sail with a swiftlet patterned plate." |
27 |
"there came riding on the crest of the waves in a boat of heavenly Kagami (Ampelopsis serinaefolia?) a Deity dressed in skins of geese" |
5.c |
"Warning us to gather the deities' names." [Is this to be accomplished by spying on them?] |
31 |
"Na-naki-me (Name-Crying-Female)" & "Ama-no-sagu-me (Heavenly-Spying-Woman)" |
6.c |
"spurs as on enteliet birds. This is the country of Siasi whose legs are yellow, He is Nendak Nendai whose tail feathers are red." |
31 |
"made the wild goose of the river the head-hanging bearer, the heron the broom-bearer, the kingfisher the person of the august food, the sparrow the pounding-woman, the pheasant the weeping woman" |
7.c |
"ensenga fish-traps, ... buba fish-traps" |
32 |
"gone to Cape Miho to ... catch fish" |
8.c |
"at a cut hole in the rock ... Whence things come so easily ... The distributor" |
32 |
"on the nethermost rock-bottom ... butler to offer up the heavenly august banquet" |
9.c |
"like an eagle ... plunging in the water" [fish-eagle ?] |
32 |
"turned into a cormorant, went down to the bottom of the sea, took in his mouth red earth from the bottom" {earth-diver myth of Siberia & North America} |
9.c |
"Sigai's ears are quick to hear" |
33 |
"His Augustness Truly-Conqueror-I-Conquer-Swift-Heavenly-Great-Great-Ears" |
10.c |
goddess "Silin Ilin, whose cloth will never decay" |
33 |
"Her Augustness Myriad-Looms-Luxuriant-Dragonfly-Island-Princess" |
11.c |
"sloping bridge planked with bamboo joints" |
34 |
"Floating Bridge of Heaven" |
12.c |
"air bubbles of adulterous crocodiles" |
36 |
Saruta = "Bubble-Bursting-August-Spirit" |
13.c |
"a circle of rangki-shell ring." |
39 |
"fish-hook" [usually made of sea-shell] |
14.c |
"fire-stones" |
40 |
"the tide-flowing jewel and the tide-ebbing jewel" |
16.c |
"overgrown with numerous rembai trees" |
40 |
"a multitudinous[-ly branching] cassia-tree" |
17.c |
Manang Bidu, guardian of the cemetery gate." |
40 |
"palace of the Deity, Ocean-Possessor. When thou reachest the august gate of that deity['s palace]" |
18.c |
"crowded with with charcoals, ... Selampandai, Who forges" |
40 |
"His Augustness Fire-Subside" |
19.c |
"come to the edge of a diamond" |
42 |
"Her Augustness Luxuriant-Jewel-Princess ..., straightway leaving" |
20.c |
"binyang beranyi palm[-tree], Cut off by the falling rain" |
42 |
"His Augustness ...-Thatch-Meeting-Incompletely" |
23.c |
"spinning tops" |
44 |
"a palace raised on one foot" [cf. palaces of +Men-glo,d & of Astika snake-burner each on single pillar as if axis, and Welsh Caer Sidi revolving] |
23.c |
"Semalendik (abortionist)" {Aztec goddess Ayo-pec^tli "tortoise-rideress", goddess of childbirth (and abortionists ?)} |
44 |
"a person riding towards them on the carapace of a tortoise" |
24.c |
"which glitters across one's face" |
44 |
"to fight facing the sun" |
BW&RM = SARAWAK MUSEUM JOURNAL, Vol XIII No. 27 (Borneo Writing and Related Matters = "Special Monograph, No. 1"). Kuching, 1966. pp. 32 to 286 Tom Harrisson & Benedict Sandin: "Borneo Writing Boards."
K = Kojiki http://www2.plala.or.jp/wani-san/kojiki.html