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Qur>an sura Naml (N)

Hellenic

:18

emmets (according to the most usual translation; but

Prompted by Daidalos, an emmet solved the problem posed by Minos to Kokalos (GM 92.i).

‘termites’ according to an alternative translation -- TAQ)

The hoopoe sometimes nesteth in "termite mounds" (FH).

:20

hoopoe

The hoopoe was figured in "Minoan" art at Knossos (Ch, p. 51).

:24

The queen of S^ba< was "prostrating before the sun".

Ikaros (son of Daidalos by the female slave Nau-krate – GM 92.d) was overcome by the sun’s heat (GM 92.f).

:41

S^lomoh (Sulayman) commanded the >ifrit : "Remodel her mansion for her."

For Kokalos, Daidalos was "erecting many fine buildings." (GM 92.h)

:58

"a miserable shower" (consisting apparently of asphalt – S&G) fell upon the folk of S`iddi^m.

"they poured boiling ... pitch upon Minos" at Kamikos (GM 92.i).

:67

"we turn into dust".

Hoopoes take dust-baths.

:81

"the blind"

Male hoopoes often blind each other.

:88

"the mountains ... are moving, like the clouds."

The hoopoe "is able to detect piezo-electrical charges in the atmosphere" (SLB). {Piezo-electricity is a result of pressure : mountains, through their weight, also exert pressure.}

H.adit

European

"Green birds" in paradise

[god of the Picentes in Picenum] Picus "possessed a green woodpecker" (CDCM, s.v. "Picus").

The father of Picus was Sterces, or Sterculus ‘Dung-heap". {Sterces must repraesent the hoopoe, which constructed its nest of animal-dung. -- "many hoopoes use old woodpecker’s holes for their mesting sites." (FF, p. 59)}