Karanga myths
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Karanga (KM) et al. |
Zulu (SS) et al |
Hellenic et al. |
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Samatutu (‘Owner of Wind’) produced wind from egg. |
[Orphic] "Wind-egg" (A:B); [Epikouros] egg constituted of wind (A, p. 113) |
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109 |
Allied to talking trees, |
Having fallen in love with tree-like man (p. 37), |
Pomegranate-tree of god Rimmon (PAM). |
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1-toothed old woman was placed "under a big heavy stone." |
goddess Ninhavanhu-Ma became an owl (p. 38). |
Persephone’s owl Askalaphos was imprisoned under a stone (A). |
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128 |
˝ of man split in twain, Divirimbe, |
God’s face "was completely displaced to one side." (pp. 40-1) |
Kalais & Zetes |
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slew divine bird. |
Attack by divine birds (p. 42-4). |
repelled the Harpuiai bird-goddesses (H). |
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131 |
Boy spoke from within bull’s corpse; |
To goddess Nandi-mukhi (‘Cow-mouth’) |
Humans spake from within hollow brazen bull of god Ataburios (Ph). |
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that boy’s singing induced growth of pumpkins. |
was addressed discussion of pumpkins (HP). |
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EAS, p. 276b |
[Hawai>ian god] Wakea (who made world out of calabash) = [Mangaian god] ˝-fish Vatea. |
Akala-kusman.d.a (‘timeless pumpkin’) is of the fish-eating Neda-Nedi (BS, Song 11:2). |
Ataburios is (EKhPRT, n. 62) related to the ‘Green Man’ who revived fishes. |
KM = Herbert Aschwanden (transl. by Ursula Cooper) : Karanga Mythology. Mambo Pr.
SS = Vusamazulu Mutwa: Song of the Stars. Station Hill Openings, Barrytown (NY), 1996.
EAS = David H. Kelley & Eugene F. Milone : Exploring Ancient Skies. Springer Verlag, 2005.
HP = "History of the Pearl" http://nitaai.net/forums/viewtopic1.php?thank_you=1&pid=5157
BS = http://nitaaiveda.com/NITAAI_Yoga_Forums/Swami%27s_Writings_and_Articles/Baul_Sangit.htm
A:B = Aristoph. Birds, 690 ff. (Kern, O.F. 1)
A = Alexander Jacob : Atman.
PAM = http://www.paghat.com/pomegranatemyths.html
A = http://www.theoi.com/Khthonios/Askalaphos.html
H = http://www.theoi.com/Pontios/Harpyiai.html
Ph = http://www.nndb.com/people/837/000097546/
EKhPRT = http://khidr.org/khidr-turkey.htm