Sumerian

Vais.n.ava

The hand of Enkidu

Hastin (‘Handy’) the elephant-avatara of Indra-dyumna of Pandya,

was caught in the door to the realm of HUwawa.

was seized by HUHU the Gandharva (according to the BhUP 8:2-4 – SBhP, p. 167).

Jagat-natha lore

Inuit

Indra-dyumna of Malava established worship of driftwood (floating logs) as god Nila-madhava.

A god manifested as "driftwood" shared his 2 wives (a mother and her daughter) with Kiviuq ("WW").

Indra-dyumna owned a sacred pond of ox-urine (according to the MBh).

Kiviuq’s vixen-wife (PTL 10, p. 194) excreted urine which was mentioned by fox (PTL 10, p. 195). Kiviuq did "urinate" among the Pamiuliin women ("WW").

Inuit

Aztec

Amongst living "human skulls" resided bee-goddess Igutsaqjuaq

cf. Aztec depictions of skull-headed bee-deity

-- who at first failed to see Kiviuq --

cf. ‘blind god’ Ixquimilli, who

carried an ulu ("Crescent-shaped knife used by women") ("BW"), until

is identified with Itztla-coliuhqui ‘curved knife of

"she dropped her ulu and it shattered with a tinkling sound. That caused ice to form on the water."

obsidian’ (obsidian shattering easily when dropped on a hard surface), who is also god of ice.

Inuit & Aztec

Hellenic

Bee-goddess at first failed to see hero, who spat upon her ("BW").

Goddess Lotis at first failed to notice Priapos, who was about to violate her sexually (CDCM, s.vv. "Priapus", "Lotis"). (This is also told of Hestia, GM 20.b.)

Ulu

Priapos "carries a pruning-knife." (GM 18.e) [pruning-knives are bent-bladed]

Nahuatl

Inuit

Topilzin Quetzal-coatl left buttocks-prints impressed in the rock where he sat.

"Kiviuq ... had made a dent on the rock where he sat." ("WW")

Topilzin’s son was named Pochotl (AN, p. 67)[; or, alternatively, he made a cross out of 2 pochotl trees by piercing (in spearlike manner) one pochotl tree through another pochotl tree.]

Kiviuq had 2 sons : he referred to them by the term /ASiGAI/ ("WW"). {/ASaGAI/ is the Masai term for ‘spear’.}

Inuit

Maori

A wood-chipper for whom "when he threw them into the water, they would turn into fish!" "told Kiviuq to sit on a large fish to cross the big water. ... Sitting on the back of the large fish he crossed the lake." ("GW")

Tini-rau told Nae (Kae) to sit on the pet "fish" Tutu-nui; sitting on the back Tutu-nui, he crossed the sea ("ST" 2, p. 264).

A woman, in displaying her daughter’s skin, was recognized when her own "legs" became uncovered. ("WW")

"highborn women doffed their garments and ... then performed an extravagant posture-dance, with ... open mouths, while some made strange movements with their legs." ("ST" 8, p. 266)

One of Kiviuq’s sons was able "to recognize his father’s teeth." ("WW")

Nae (Kae) was to be recognized "By the sign of a broken tooth" ("ST" 2, p. 264).