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IX. Awa texts

Wildcat-man

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

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).

p. 124

While the child was being held by its mother,

Thetis sought to make her son Akhilleus immortal (GM 81.r).

 

that Ilakia man pulled off his child’s toe.

Peleus’s son Akhilleus was shot in the heel (GM 164.k).

Snake-man

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.

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

p. 331

At Kuwofimpa, the 2 male ancestors of the Auyana, Bat-man and

cf. [highland Maya] Black-man of Zinacantan

 

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)

p. 332

For those 2 men, women broke snail-shells.

cf. conch-pectoral worn by [Aztec] Topiltzin, whose name-glyph a hound-headed serpent.

 

In a ravine, Python-man gripped roots of fiyu-tree with his teeth.

cf. South American Indian mythic composite Snake-trees

 

Python-man’s wife "gave birth ... to ... grasshoppers ... and all kinds of insects."

cf. [Navaho world-age of] Grasshopper-people

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

p. 356

At mt. Aimompa, younger brother killed wild cat in a spring-trap made of an ofonamba-tree;

 

p. 357

he beat his drum along the Wasari river :

cf. musical instruments which resounded in Sdom (LB, p. 118)

 

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

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)

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

p. 398

Old man was snapping and eating beetles raw.

Coyote was condemned to eat beetles (Cochiti myth – LS, p. 43).

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).

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).

 

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

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).

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

p. 687

Parrot and crow ate together.

parrot and crow brought maize (PV pt. 3, cap. 1) = parrot bringing Maize-god (ShS, p. 138)

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).

 

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.