Eastern Family of the East New Guinea Highland ----------------------------------------------------------- IX. Awa texts Wildcat-man
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p. 116 |
A "wildcat-person", who owned arrows, was caught in a trap at Tanagogo. |
The war-god Ares was imprisoned by the sons of Aloios (GM 19.b). |
GM = Robert Graves : The Greek Myths. 1955.
Groundhog-woman
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p. 122 |
A Groundhog-woman became, while held onto by an Ilakia man, successively : tree, stone, possum, lizard. |
The goddess Thetis, became, while held onto by the man Peleus, successively : fire, water, lioness, serpent, cuttlefish (GM 81.k). |
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p. 124 |
While the child was being held by its mother, |
Thetis sought to make her son Akhilleus immortal (GM 81.r). |
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that Ilakia man pulled off his child’s toe. |
Peleus’s son Akhilleus was shot in the heel (GM 164.k). |
Snake-man
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p. 153 |
Snake-man’s children had a mother who cooked sweet potato. |
[Maori] Rongo, wearer of rainbow-belt (cf. Peruvian rainbow-snake as belt), is god of sweet potato. |
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p. 154 |
That woman’s mother (the Snake-children’s maternal grandmother) suffered her head bitten off by her Snake-man son-in-law. |
The Peruvian rainbow-snake-belt is worn by a god of headhunting. |
[pp. 632-633 XXXIII. Tairora texts – (p. 6320 woman married a Python-man; (p. 633) that woman’s mother (the Snake-children’s maternal grandmother) was swallowed by the Python-man.]
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XV. Auyana texts
Python-man
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p. 331 |
At Kuwofimpa, the 2 male ancestors of the Auyana, Bat-man and |
cf. [highland Maya] Black-man of Zinacantan |
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Python-man, made feathered headdresses; and then cut off, cooked, and ate the ear of a hound. |
[Maori] hero Ue-nuku killed, cooked, and ate a hound. cf. "lop-eared hounds" (GM 22.d) of Pan. (also Aztec hound’s ear as metonym for ‘hound’ as day-sign) |
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p. 332 |
For those 2 men, women broke snail-shells. |
cf. conch-pectoral worn by [Aztec] Topiltzin, whose name-glyph a hound-headed serpent. |
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In a ravine, Python-man gripped roots of fiyu-tree with his teeth. |
cf. South American Indian mythic composite Snake-trees |
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Python-man’s wife "gave birth ... to ... grasshoppers ... and all kinds of insects." |
cf. [Navaho world-age of] Grasshopper-people |
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p. 333 |
Python-man’s wife "jerked out his heart and tied it up." |
cf. separate survival of Topiltzin’s heart |
[p. 637-638 Tairora texts – Of 2 old men (both makers of feathered headdresses – p. 637) namely Popire and Papire of Kaberora, one became (p. 638) a bat and one became a python.]
Wild Cat
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p. 356 |
At mt. Aimompa, younger brother killed wild cat in a spring-trap made of an ofonamba-tree; |
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p. 357 |
he beat his drum along the Wasari river : |
cf. musical instruments which resounded in Sdom (LB, p. 118) |
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having found him at Tauwarufa, a woman "became a salty leaf – she became the native salt." |
cf. the wife of Lot.’s becoming a pillar of salt, nigh Sdom |
LB = Louis Ginzberg : Legends of the Bible. Konecky.
Pine forest
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p. 361 |
"Now this couple -- the husband put his penis in a net bag and put it over his shoulder in order to carry it." |
"S`iva is literally castrated" (GD, p. 57) |
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p. 362 |
This couple "went ... to Kofarufa" ("pine forest"). |
in the "Pine Forest" (GD, p. 58) – according to the Vamana Puran.a. |
TK = Catherine Benton : God of Desire : Tales of Kamadeva. S.U.N.Y., 2006. http://books.google.com/books?id=bFpgBgIaFAEC&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq=sages+"pine+forest"+Purana&source=bl&ots=yQxcdy7K1n&sig=HdxUXtCJP5_csdVFrwXhStq7cHY&hl=en&ei=6b2qSrG8GIqNtge3_PnUBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=sages%20%22pine%20forest%22%20Purana&f=false
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XVI. Usarufa text
Beetle-eater
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p. 398 |
Old man was snapping and eating beetles raw. |
Coyote was condemned to eat beetles (Cochiti myth – LS, p. 43). |
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p. 399 |
2 women were severely beaten by a younger brother, jealous of old man’s gifts to his elder brother. |
"As part of a reenactment of an ancient myth describing their fight with the giant rhinoceros beetle god, Kayapo ... receive ... pain" (MPI). |
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p. 400 |
After being stranded atop a tree by his younger brother (who did this in order to steal elder brother’s 2 wives), elder brother was rescued by |
On account of a woman who he was raping, Old-Man-Coyote was trapped by the tree which she became (Crow myth – M&TCI, p. 45). |
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drab-colored birds (the last of which was a hawk), all of whom he painted with gaudy colors in gratitude. |
The colors owned by the Coyote-god were imparted to birds as their coloration (Navaho myth -- IB, p. 110). |
[p. 480 XXIII. Gadsup texts -- After being stranded atop a pine-tree by his elder brother (who did this in order to steal younger brother’s wife), younger brother was rescued by birds (including a hawk). Thereupon, younger brother transformed himself into "a beautiful bean" {cf. the life-token acacia-plant which repraesented one of the 2 brethren in the Kemetian "Tale of the 2 Brethren" (T2B)}; after she had been picked by one of the wives, "he exploded out of that bean," (p. 481) and shot an arrow to create a water-spring {cf. the water-spring created at Lerne (for Amumone the Danai:d) by Poseidon (GM 60.g).}]
LS = Ray A. Williamson : Living in the Sky. U of OK Pr, 1987. http://books.google.com/books?id=MryjN_Z8z0QC&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&dq=
MPI = http://www.insectia.com/beta/e/dr_c2213273.html
M&TCI = Robert Harry Lowie : Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians. 1918. http://books.google.com/books?id=pTITAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA45&lpg=PA45&dq=
IB = Stanley Fishler : In the Beginning. 1953. http://sacred-texts.com/nam/nav/itb/itb08.htm
T2B = http://www.piney.com/DocEgTaleTwo.html & http://reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/texts/anpu_and_bata.htm
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XXXIII. Tairora texts
Hounds
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p. 664 |
Man’s "mother had married a male dog." |
Woman and her hound (named P>an-hu) were ancestors of the Yao (MH) = Hmon (HDC). |
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p. 664 |
That man was devoured alive by his own hounds. |
cf. Aktaion, devoured alive by his own hounds (GM 22.i) |
MH = http://www.unitediumien.org/MienHistory.php
HDC = "Hmong Dab Pog Couple". HMONG STUDIES JOURNAL, 2003, 4:1-20 http://hmongstudies.com/ChaHSJ4.pdf
pp. 687-688 Parrot & Crow
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p. 687 |
Parrot and crow ate together. |
parrot and crow brought maize (PV pt. 3, cap. 1) = parrot bringing Maize-god (ShS, p. 138) |
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p. 688 |
Woman praetended to have been sexually violated : therefor, |
Natoro-i-rani’s wife (abducted along with him) committed adultery (AHM 7, p. 18). |
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parrot’s finger was amputated. |
cf. finger of [Sumerian] Enkidu caught in door? |
PV = Popol Vuh http://www.geocities.com/Athens/academy/7286/popolvuhmain.html#anchor105121 ;
Goetz & Morley (transl.) 1954 http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/popol_vuh/book/pv32.htm p. 105
ShS = Douglas Gillette: The Shaman's Secret. Bantam Books, 1997. (Tikal incised bone)
AHM 7 = John White: The Ancient History of the Maori, his Mythology and Traditions. Vol. VII. U. of Waikato, Hamilton (N.Z.), 2001.
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ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES IN THE EASTERN HIGHLANDS OF NEW GUINEA, Vol. I = Howard McKaughan (ed.) : The Languages of the Eastern Family of the East New Guinea Highland Stock. U of WA Pr, Seattle, 1973.