Iban Gawai Batu = Kojiki

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citation (BW&RM, pp. 224 to 241)

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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