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3. square crest of hill |
p. 86 mountains & lakes |
Mt. >ra^rat. at deluge with square ark (Br>s^yt 8:4) |
p. 87 couple were seen copulating and the gods were informed of this |
No_h.a was seen naked and his sons were informed of this (Br>s^yt 9:22) |
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4. climbing house |
p. 88 building tower |
tower of Ba^bel -- |
7. fool |
confusion of languages: "lacking intelligence" |
confusion of languages (Br>s^yt 11:9) |
8. Sibau MELANau |
p. 89 serpent blocked rivers, |
par<o_h as dragon in river of Mis.rayim http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?word=eze+29:3&version=kjv&st=1&sd=1&new=1&showtools=1 Mis.rayim = land of MELAN-podes |
10. paddy |
causing deluge |
par<o_h's daughter at river: bullrushes (S^mwt 2:5) |
11. climb mountain |
Mo_s^eh arrived at Mt. H.o_re_b (S^mwt 3:1) |
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12. travellers take a respite |
remove shoes (S^mwt 3:5) |
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15. cool |
"snow" (S^mwt 4:6) |
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16. women regain physical health after giving birth to babies |
+S.ipporah circumcised her infant son (S^mwt 4:25) |
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17. magic plant |
magic rod (S^mwt 7:9) |
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18. cock to 2nd heaven |
p. 90 partridge to sky |
quail (S^mwt 16:13) |
20. [? miscegenation] women & their bird-husbands |
p. 91 wooden phallos attracteth woman to copulate |
S^it.t.i^m-wood (BMdbr 25:1) attracteth woman to miscegenation (BMdbr 25:4): |
24. double-arrowed warrior |
Pi^nh.a^s grasped spear (BMdbr 25:5) |
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p. 94 cockroach went to fetch sweets: |
honey (Dbrym 32:13) |
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p. 95 ashes were falsely mixed into them |
bitter foods (Dbrym 32:32) |
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25.Tuton sitteth all day |
p. 96 suns remain in sky |
sun & moon simultaneously in sky (Yhs^w< 10:12) http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?word=jos+10:12&version=kjv&st=1&sd=1&new=1&showtools=1 |
p. 98 thumbs were cut off green frog; |
thumbs were cut off >do_ni^-Bezeq (S^pt.ym 1:6) |
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29. moon |
moon |
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32. maker of mankind; |
p. 100 giving of intelligence & wisdom to humans |
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p. 102 tail |
Lu^z "coccyx, tailbone" (S^pt.ym 1:26) |
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p. 103 burial under upside-down basket |
burial at Timnat-H.eres (S^pt.ym 2:9) -- timnat "portion" (i.e., potsherd) + h.eres "itch" (i.e., for scraping) http://bible.crosswalk.com/Lexicons/Hebrew/heb.cgi?search=2777&version=kjv&type=eng&submit=Find -- cf. residing, Diogenes-like, under upside-down urn, during "scraping on the urn with a piece of brick" from the outside (ODG, p. 34) |
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valley of rocky shelters |
quarries (S^pt.ym 3:26) |
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37. change to best clothing; |
pp. 104-5 gold clothing was awarded, but not retained |
despoiled of gold earrings (S^pt.ym 8:26) |
take a bath; |
p. 108 bathing |
river-fords (S^pt.ym 12:5) |
produce foods from own bodies |
produce honey from corpse of lion (S^pt.ym 14:8) |
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Clayton H. Chu: Three Worlds of Iban Shamanism. PhD diss., Columbia U., 1978. pp. 120 to 124 |
A.R. Foning: Lepcha. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1987 |
ODG = Chen Kaiguo & Zheng Shunchao (tr. by Thomas Cleary): Opening the Dragon Gate. Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1996 |