S^an Hai Jin 4:----------------------------------------------Gospel according to Matthew
:1:1 "Bushgrub" |
3:4 "locusts" |
:1:1 "Drieddark" |
3:12 "burn up ... with unquenchable fire" |
:1:1 "Food" |
4:4 Man shall ... live by bread" |
:1:2 "a noise like a grunting" |
5:4 "they shall be comforted" [referring to the Paraclete "comforter", which inspireth to speak in "unknown tongues"] |
:1:2 "gold" |
5:26 "the uttermost farthing" |
:1:2 "tadpoles" [they lack hands-&-feet; in adults, their hands-&-feet regrow if amputated] |
5:30 "thy right hand ... cut it off" |
:1:3 "hair" |
5:36 "one hair" |
:1:3 "from-from" |
5:37 "cometh of" |
:1:3 "jaws" |
5:38 "a tooth" |
:1:5 "yellow-cheek" |
5:39 "thy right cheek" |
:1:6 "silk" |
6:19 "moth" |
:1:8 "gold and jade" |
6:20 "treasures" |
:1:9 "Jackal" {"jackal" is, in Skt., s`iva, name of the god who, praesiding over the third eye, is full of light} |
6:22 "if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light" |
:1:9 "bristles" |
6:29 "arrayed" |
:1:10 "a flash" |
7:3 "in thine own eye" |
:1:11 "Great" |
7:5 "that which is holy" |
:1:11 "a boar and it contains pearls" |
7:6 "your pearls before swine" |
:1:11 "same-same" |
7:7 "ask and it [i.e., the same] shall be given you" |
:1:12 "Bamboo" [bamboo shoots as the staple diet of the panda] |
7:9 "bread" |
:1:12 "green jasper and green jade" |
7:9 "a stone" |
:1:14 "a fish" |
7:10 "fish" |
:2:1 "Hollowmulberry" |
7:14 "strait is the gate" |
:2:4 "Clothbean" |
7:15 "clothing" |
:2:5 "Lapping" [typical drinking by canines] |
7:15 "wolves" |
:2:6 "thorn ... trees" |
7:16 "thorns" |
:2:6 "willow trees" |
7:19 "tree that bringeth forth not ... fruit" |
:2:6 "Mixme" |
7:21 salvation is not by faith alone, but mixed with works, which "doeth the will of my ..." |
:2:6 fainting, swooning: "When it sees human beings, it 'goes to sleep'." |
7:22 "cast out devils" [which depart upon their falling unconscious at an hypnotic suggestion by the exorcist?] |
:2:8 "a great deal of rock crystal" |
7:24 "upon a rock" |
:2:9 "Hutits ... has ... a great amount of sandy gravel" |
7:26 "built his house upon the sand" |
:2:10 "Motherinlawshoot" |
7:29 "as one having authority" [unless defying them, one would normally be subject to the authority of one's in-laws] |
:2:15 flying "fox" |
8:20 "the foxes" |
:2:16 "Duckbeauty" |
8:20 "the birds of the air" |
:2:16 "needle stones" {cf. the stone loom in the Cave of the Numphai": Odusseus slept nigh there acc. to the Odusseis} |
8:24 Jesus "was asleep" |
:2:17 "It makes a noise like a howling ..." |
8:29 "cried out" |
:2:17 "far-far" |
8:30 "a good way off from them" |
:2:17 "great numbers of fraudulent strangers" |
9:10 "many publicans and sinners" |
:2:17 "a rat's tail ... will have frequent epidemics." [rat is symbol of 1st year in 12-year cycle] |
9:20 "a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years." |
:3:1 "Corpsehalberd" |
9:24 "dead" |
:3:1 "eyes" |
9:29 "eyes" |
:3:2 "Forked" [cf. "speak with a forked tongue"?] |
9:33 "the dumb spake" |
:3:3 "Allhook" |
9:35 "all ... every ..." |
:3:7 "join-join" |
9:38 "Pray ye therefore the Lord ... that he will send forth laborers into his harvest" [scil., of proselytes to join] |
:3:8 "Stridecorner" |
10:5 "Go ... into the way" (stride upon the roadway) |
:3:8 "like a ram" |
10:6 "the lost sheep" |
:3:9 "there are frequent winds" [winds may raise dust] |
10:14 "shake off the dust" |
:3:11 "use a single male sheep" |
10:16 "sheep" |
:4:1 "snubnose-dogwolf" |
10:16 "in the midst of wolves" |
:4:1 "a bird here which ... has a white head" |
10:16 "innocent as doves" |
:4:1 "rat's feet" |
10:17 "But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils" (will "rat on" you) |
:4:2 "Bluebody" [bluebottle flies?] |
10:25 "Beelzebub" |
:4:3 "sap like blood" {mentioned in the Popol Vuh of the Maya, whose religious emblem is the cross} |
10:38 "And he that taketh not up his cross and followeth after me, is not worthy of me." |
:4:3 "many fine cowrie shells" {used as monetary currency in West Africa} |
10:41 "reward" |
:4:3 "scent-herb ... of farting" |
11:4 "A reed shaken with the wind?" |
:4:4 "Girlstew" |
11:11 "born of women" |
:4:5 "Leader" |
11:14 "this is Elias, which was for to come." |
:4:5 "the match-rest" |
11:16 "liken this generation" |
:4:6 "Childpawlonia" |
11:16 "children" |
:4:7 "the joinflaw" |
11:17 "We have piped for you, and ye have not danced ..." |
:4:7 "eats humans" |
11:19 "gluttonous and a winebibber" [viz., eater & drinker of the Eucharist, bread & wine transsubstantiated into human flesh & human blood] |
:4:8 "Toil" |
11:20 "mighty works" |
The Classic of the Eastern Mountains. In:--
Anne Birrell (transl.): The Classic of Mountains and Seas. Penguin Classics, 1999. pp. 55 to 64
S^an Hai Jin 5:-------------------------------------------------Gospel According to Matthew
:1:1 "sheath-plant" |
11:25 "hid these things from the wise and prudent" ["these things" being secret scriptures, repraesented by the sword, their being hidden will have been within a sheath] |
:1:1 "It can cure bad eyesight." |
11:26 "good in thy sight." |
:1:2 "Stagechild" |
11:27 "the Son will reveal" [in drama?] |
:1:2 "forgetful" |
11:29 "rest [repose] for your souls" {repose for the souls of the deceased is in the river Lethe "forgetfulness", according to the Pythagoreans} |
:1:3 "Drainhog" |
12:28 "cast out devils" [into swine ?] |
:1:3 "Porcupine-fish" |
12:40 "whale's belly" |
:1:4 "Oniondeaf" |
13:15 "dull of hearing" |
:1:5 "Spume" |
13:22 "choke" |
:1:6 "mental anguish " |
13:42 "there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth" |
:1:7 "Goldstar. It has numerous sky-pendants" |
13:43 "the righeous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father." |
:1:8 "Greatterror" |
13:49 "So it shall be at the end of the world" |
:1:8 "Owlvalley" {the Athenians, editors of the most sacred of Hellenic books, the Ilias, assigned to their own city the owl-goddess; so that the owl is depicted as having its own house in Codex Borgia, p. 12} |
13:57 "in his own country, and in his own house." |
:1:8 "abundant iron" |
14:3 "put him in prison" [in "irons" ?] |
:1:9 "Oakvale" |
14:6 "danced" {cf. Orphic dance of the trees} |
:1:10 "Cryforest" |
14:9 "was sorry" |
:1:11 "Oxhead" |
14:11 "his head was brought" |
:1:11 "ghost herb" |
14:12 "the [headless] body" {cf. Chinese headless specters} |
:1:13 "Fifty-two" |
14:17 "five ... and two" |
:1:13 "Joinvale" |
14:19 "commanded the multitude" |
:1:14 "Shade" |
14:23 "the evening was come" |
:1:14 "grindstones and patterned stones" |
14:28 Peter (Petros) "a rock" |
1:14 "Young" |
15:4 [intended as a commandment to the young:-] "Honour thy father and mother" |
1:15 "Drumchalice" |
15:17 "whatsoever entereth in at the mouth ... is cast out into the draught" {having been drafted, can be "drummed out of service" ?} |
:1:15 "glory-herb" |
15:19 "blasphemies" [use of profanity and foul language is the very glory of the military] |
:1:15 "lunacy" |
15:19 "grievously vexed with a devil." |
:2:2 "showlook" |
16:1 "shew them a sign" |
:2:3 "Porcupine" (cf. :1:3) |
16:4 "the sign of the prophet Jonas" (cf. 12:40) |
:2:4 "Fresh" (unfermented, unleavened ?) |
16:6 "beware the leaven" |
:2:4 "humming snakes which ... have four wavy wings." |
16:16 "the Son of the living God." (alias dictus "the Son of Man", elsewhere identified with the "serpent" s`rap having 6 wings) |
:2:4 "a stone chime" |
16:18 "this rock" |
:2:5 "Sunny" |
17:2 "his face did shine as the sun" |
:2:5 "change their shape" |
17:11 "restore all things" |
:2:5 "someone bawling with rage ... will have a major flood" |
17:15 "he is a lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth ... into the water" |
:2:6 "Offspringmy" |
17:17 "O faithless and perverse generation ..." |
:2:7 "Rape"[-seed ?] |
17:20 "a grain of mustard seed" |
:2:8 "Lonethyme" |
17:21 "prayer and fasting" [viz., while in solitude ?] |
:2:9 "like a baby" |
17:25 "their own children" |
:2:11 "lucky jade, which is then to be thrown" {as during the Muslim hajj, nigh >arafat.} |
17:27 [by sheer luck] "thou shalt find a piece of money: that take and give" |
:3:1 "man-all" |
18:1 "Who is the greatest" |
:3:2 "the Secret City of the Great Deity" |
18:4 "the kingdom of heaven." |
:3:2 "has a small waist" |
18:6 "hanged about his neck" |
:3:2 "cormorant" |
18:6 "drowned in the depth of the sea." |
:3:2 "have a baby" |
18:10 "these little ones" |
:3:2 "make them goodlooking" |
18:10 "behold the face of my Father" |
:3:3 "Uprightturn" |
18:12 "seek that which is gone astray?" |
:3:3 "it will ward off weapons" |
18:14 "it is not ... that one ... should perish" |
:3:4 "Helpthyme" |
18:15 "thou hast gained thy brother" |
:3:4 "Hustlebustle" |
18:17 "let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican" [hustled out of the Church] |
:3:5 "the 'nine cities'" |
18:20 "where two or three are gathered together in my name" |
:3:5 "Great Meet" |
18:20 "there am I in the midst of them" |
:3:5 "Cucumber" {<arabic law explicitly requireth the forgiveness of the debt in cucumbers owed by a wayfarer who may pick them to assuage hunger} |
18:27 "forgave him the debt" |
:4:1 "the River Sweet" {at the river Medu "sweet" in Sikelia, women remarried (GM)} |
19:9 "whoso marrieth her which is put away" |
:4:2 "Clawmark" |
19:12 "made eunuchs of men" |
:4:3 "Govern" |
19:12 "He that is able to receive it, let him receive it." [i.e., be governed by it] |
:4:5 "Handle" |
19:15 "he laid his hands on them" |
:4:6 "Whiteedge" |
19:17 "there is none good but one, that is, God" [by ascribing purity (whiteness) only to God, humans are edged out] |
:4:7 "Bearsear" |
19:18 "bear false witness" |
:4:7 "Floatmoat ... and there are many human-fish" |
19:21 "go sell that thou hast, and give to the poor" [i.e., "float a loan" to the Church of Ebion ("pauper")] |
:4:8 "Male" {the (<ibri^) male is characterized as to be circumcized; and the reputed relic, in France, of the foreskin of Jesus, was carried by a camel, in the epoch of Charlemagne} |
19:24 "camel" |
:4:8 "arrow-bamboos" |
19:25 "Who then can be saved?" [Jesus seemed to have "shot down the claims" of the rich to their own being salvageable.] |
:4:8 "flatter-bamboos" |
19:26 "with God all things are possible." [This unexpected restoration of salvageability to the rich is evidently intended as a piece of catering flattery.] |
:4:9 "Cheerlift" |
19:28 "the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory" [i.e., "shall be elevated (lifted) to the throne", praesumably amid raucous cheers] |
:4:9 "Clear" |
20:12 "equal" payments [thereby "clearing" accounting-records] |
:4:11 "dress the sacrificial victim in a colored cloth" |
20:18 "they shall condemn him to death" [in trial "colored with praejudice"] |
:5:1 "Lewdbed" |
20:20 "Then came to him the mother ... desiring a certain thing of him." |
:5:1 "curious" |
20:21 "What wilt thou?" |
:5:2 "Head" |
20:28 "came ... to minister" [viz., as head of it, to the Church (his bride), by "giving head" to her] |
:5:2 "they have three eyes" |
20:34 "their eyes received sight" |
:5:2 "and are eared" |
21:2 "an ass" [asses are noted for their ears] |
:5:2 "the rasping of metal" |
21:12 "overthrew ... the moneychangers" |
:5:3 "Hangaxe" |
21:13 "a den of thieves" {Odusseus found himself in a den of thieves where axes were hanging from rings} |
:5:5 "Twigvale" |
21:19 "he saw a fig tree ... and found ... leaves only" |
:5:6 "wells ... which ... are dry in summer" |
21:20 "How soon ... withered away!" |
:5:7 "Successbutt" |
21:22 "And all things, whatsoever ye ask ... ye shall receive" |
:5:10 "Stage" |
21:33 "a tower" |
:5:11 "bright blue jade" |
21:42 "The stone which the builders rejected ... it is marvellous" |
:5:11 "Corpse" |
21:44 "on whomsoever it will fall, it will grind him to powder." {cf. West African myth of "Death" itself having been grinded} |
:5:12 "Goodmore" |
22:3 "to call them that were bidden" [to "make good on" their promise to be more guests] |
:5:12 "More" |
22:10 "as many as they found, both good and bad" |
:5:12 "Nipple" |
22:12 "was speechless" [as unable to speak as though sucking a nipple ?] |
:5:13 "Malignforcetail" |
22:13 "cast him into outer darkness" |
:5:13 "Dragonmore" [the Dragon being the emblem of the emperor] |
22:21 "render unto Caesar" [more] |
:5:14 "Ascension" |
22:30 "the resurrection" |
:5:14 "Yellowsour" |
23:4 "grievous" |
:5:15 "Darkstop" |
23:13 "ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in" |
:6:1 "Whitesilkram" |
23:27 "ye ... whited ..." |
:6:1 "Highhorse Reptile" |
23:33 "ye generation of vipers" |
:6:1 "Stinging Insects" |
23:34 "scourge" |
:6:1 "a single male chicken" |
23:37 "a hen" |
:6:3 "Gable" {Cf. "House of Many Gables"} |
24:7 "nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom" |
:6:3 "Heron" {in Skt., kanka "heron" is used figuratively to mean "praetended Brahmana"} |
24:11 "false prophets" |
:6:3 "Crossgoblet" |
24:24 "false Christs" [each of them touting a rosary Holy Cross and a goblet Holy Grail ?] |
:6:4 "Seeall" |
24:30 "then shall all ... see" |
:6:4 "Ebb" |
24:35 "Heaven and earth shall pass away" |
:6:4 "Young" |
24:36 "day and hour" [younger than the day is the hour] |
:6:4 "Grain" |
24:38 "eating and drinking" [viz., bread and beer ?] |
:6:5 "Dragdrip" |
24:40 "one shall be taken, and the other left." |
:6:5 "See" |
24:42 "Watch therefore ..." |
:6:5 "purple stones" |
24:49 "with the drunken" |
:6:6 "Whitestone" |
25:34 "the foundation of the world" |
:6:6 "Kindness" |
25:36 "I was a stranger, and ye took me in" |
:6:6 "Runnel" |
26:7 "poured it" |
:6:6 "kohl-stones" |
26:12 "did it for my burial" |
:6:7 "Papermulberry" |
26:13 "be told for a memorial of her" |
:6:8 "Secret" |
26:48 "gave them a sign" |
:6:8 "Porcupine" [in :2:3, "Porcupine" = Yonah, who expected to be able to destroy, singlehandedly, the city of Nineveh] |
26:61 "This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God" |
:6:8 "wood being split" |
26:65 "rent his clothes" |
:6:9 "Common Valley" |
27:7 "the potter's field, to bury strangers in" |
:6:9 "Bamboo" |
27:29 "a reed" |
:6:9 "Common" |
27:29 [as commoners,] "they bowed the knee before him" |
:6:9 "chiming stones" |
27:29 ["chiming in",] "they mocked him" |
:6:10 "Assist" |
27:32 "they found a man: ... him they compelled to carry the cross" [so assisting Jesus] |
:6:10 "Satedip" |
27:34 "They gave him ... to drink ... gall" [intending to besot him with a sponge dipped in gall, an anodyne] |
:6:10 "many human-fish" |
27:37 "THE JEWS" |
:6:10 "the Graveheap" |
27:52 "And the graves were opened ..." |
:6:10 "numerous coloured jade gemstones" |
27:60 "a great stone" |
:6:11 "frog-fish" |
27:61 "Mary Magdalene" [she was reputed to have been a prostitute, a slang Greek term for which was phrune "female frog"; in Egyptian, a female frog is praesent at the scene of sexual intercourse between Isis and Osiris] |
The Classic of the Central Mountains. In:--
Anne Birrell (transl.): The Classic of Mountains and Seas. Penguin Classics, 1999. pp. 67 to 102