Mythology of the Yami tribe on the island of Botel (p. 12 [in Puyuma & Ami] Buturu) - Tobago (p. 11 [= in Sung-dynasty Chinese] Tambako = [in Ching-dynasty Chinese] An-tau-su = [in Japanese] Ko-to-s^o)
[p. 8 its language similar to that of Vasay, Itbayat, and Satang in the Philippines]
to the southeast of [in Japanese] Takasago (= [in Portuguese] Formosa = [in Chinese] Tai-wan)
naming at baptism
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p. 39, fn. 14 pointing finger at crown of head |
{cf. touching finger-tip to crown of head for exorcism} |
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growth of head & limbs outward from stone, to become man Sitoronan |
{cf.depiction in Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus of the Mixtec} |
pp. 39-40 origin-myth: 1st 2 men
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p. |
elder man |
younger man |
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39 |
origin from stone fallen from sky onto I-paptok {cf. Bodish myths of coming of human souls for incarnation via meteors; cf. also Zulu} |
origin from bamboo {cf. Zulu origin of first human Unkulunkulu from bamboo} |
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went to Ilatai; |
went to Ivalinu; |
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stopped at Imasapau and there found iron |
stopped at Kasavilugan and there found silver |
p. 40 "Long were the penes of these two and they were joined to their knee-joints. ... And from the knee-joints [of each] ... issued offspring: a male from the right knee-joint and a female from left [knee-joint]." {cf. [Australian aboriginal] myth of primordial man with long penis; [Latin] genu "knee" < gen- "to beget"}
pp. 40-41 origin-myth: social exchanges between knee-born men
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problem |
exchange |
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40 |
Result of marriage of siblings from knees of same man: blind child. [fn. 17 "A similar misadventure occurred ... in the Puyuma myth."] |
"wherefore they exchanged wives." |
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Silver bent against hardwood. |
they exchanged metals |
pp. 45-53 [Puyuma of southeastern Takasago (not Yami)] origin-myth
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p. |
Puyuma myth |
comparative |
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45 |
The god IBaGo caused that "the bamboo split open. First a woman sprang out of it, then a man. |
{IBoGa narcotic drug in Gabon} |
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... the woman to the path on the right round .... the man the path on the left. |
{[in Kojiki] walking around menhir, 1st woman greeted 1st man} |
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... The woman gave birth to a female child who had no bones and |
{female dancers are said to "have no bones" [in African metaphor]} |
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was blind." |
{cf. [Hellenic] blind goddess of Justice} |
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repeat of origin, with about ancestral woman +Paconsel & ancestral man Pacomarai: but on this occasion, "the man taking the path on his right, the woman on his [Ibago's] left." |
{[in Kojiki] in repeat of walking around menhir, 1st man greeted 1st woman} |
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They had children, "But when the first elder children grew older a skin disease covered the whole of their bodies." |
cf. p. 57 [Yami myth] anti-god Sariasap "changes them [some humans] to ... pockmarked [with disease]." |
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Iboga decided to quarantine them in the island of "Saffran (Kashoto)." "And the god threw a wooden bridge over the sea, joining the coast to the island. |
{Cf. Rama-candra's floating bridge to the island Lanka.} |
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In the island there was a very tall pole .... Flocks of black birds flew round and round the pole, and the sky was lifted up to where it is at present." |
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The younger of the children of +Paconsel & Pacomarai, in turn, had 4 children, whom Iboga cast into "a hole in the earth". |
[This "hole in the earth" may be the "subterranean house" in 7th plane (Lower part)] |
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47 |
There, "underground", "they were changed into large fish" in sea there. |
{Cf. people changed into fish in cavern-stream, according to the 8th of the <arabian 1,001 Nights: "citizens ... she transformed by her enchantments into fishes; the Moslems are the white, the Magians red, the Christians blue and the Jews yellow."} |
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The elder children (skin-diseased) had a daughter, who had "sharp teeth that encircled her vulva." |
{Cf. [Maori] +Hine-nui-te-Po, etc.} |
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She was "put ... inside a box which they ... cast into the sea." |
{Cf. Hemi-thea "1/2-goddess" who was put into a chest and cast into sea, GM 161.g} |
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Her 2 children (by sweet-potato man) were transformed, by her throwing boiling fat onto them, into 2 crows. |
[p. 48, fn. 22 "the Scottish legend of the Twa Corbies"] |
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Children crying out kit-kite (lizard's cry) were "fed ... on insects, snakes, snails and centipedes." |
[Cf. "scraps and refuse" fed to children in 7th plane (Lower part)] {Cf. centipedes etc. of Minos} |
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Elder brother climbed via kite-string to heaven. |
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In order to cure his younger brother, elder brother threatened him with knife. |
{Cf. cure of Iphiklos by Melampous after his being threatened with knife by Phulakos, GM 72.e} |
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During earthquake, uncle was lanced by elder brother, whose hands and feet thereupon became paralyzed. |
{cf. Erp} |
creatrix & creator of the universe
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p. 57 Yami |
Taino of Cuba |
<ibri^ |
Indo-nesia |
S.C. & Biafra |
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+Nunurao |
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[or else, by a couple, namely:] |
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[in the east] +Terayc^a-pada / +Takaru-pada |
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[&, in the south, her husband] TAMAGiSanga the rain-god |
TAMAGoStat |
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[their work of creating humans being uglified by the god in the north, namely:] |
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Sari-ASAP |
>ASAP |
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[there are also 2 war-deities:] |
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TOLA-SULO |
TOLAh |
SULO i. |
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[&] Tapali-SePE |
SaPElo i. |
(figured on pp. 54-56) the 8 superposed elliptical planes of the Yami cosmos
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p. |
ordinal #, counting downwards |
function of plane |
major S^I deities {cf. ati-S`aY-in ("reclining beyond") in sky} |
other |
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58 |
1st |
rain, lightning, thunder |
storm-god's son is depicted (p. 54) bent over backwards {cf. Kemetian god} |
unknown as to how long a time was god (p. 58) {cf. Kala, Zrvan} |
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60 |
2nd |
longhouses (condominium-houses): all made of gold, in 7 endogamous villages (p. 62) |
S^imo-ra-po & +S^imo-mi-ma (p. 55) |
Tau-ro-to (Tau-du-to divinities: Si Torijau / Si Umina & Si Animus / Si Vidai, pp. 61-62). Goddess thence married mortal man for 9 years (p. 63) |
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3rd |
wild-haired pot-bellied gods (p. 55) {cf. Lamba-udara} |
S^ipariud & S^ivairai |
demigods who become rats, are thieves {cf. Whiro & Hermes} |
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64 |
4th |
only goddesses: they determine humans' lifespan |
+S^i-nun-manuri |
+Pi-na-lun-ao goddesses spilling water from bowl {cf. +Danai:des} |
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67 |
5th |
islands, canoes |
[this world] |
the Yami |
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6th |
butterflies, preying-mantises, cocoons |
[ordinary underworld for multiple souls] |
the Yami-anito: the 8 souls of each Yami |
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69 |
7th ["(Upper part)", p. 55] |
[clump of balung-bung grass concealing entrance to that underworld accessible to the living] |
[earthly opening called Ginu-awungo into that underworld enterable by the living] |
{cf. [Latin] mundus, [Hopi] sipapu: ritual entrances to the underworld} |
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55 |
7th "(Lower part)" |
"subterranean house" {Siberian-style} |
[p. 68 here are "children ... feeding ... only on scraps and refuse."] |
women (depicted long-haired, p. 55 on right) |
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70 |
8th |
earthquakes |
Kamurai the serpent |
"five massive tree trunks" (p. 57) supporting upper planes |
p. 59 there is a sun on on the 2nd & 7th planes, "the 5th one having two." (p. 71 "alternate planes")
p. 68 "the 3rd, 6th and 8th planes of existence (in the 9 plane scheme) are ... anito counterparts of the corresponding divine (2nd), Yami (5th) and human (7th) planes immediately above them"
GM = Robert Graves: The Greek Myths. 1955.
Arundel del Re: Creation Myths of the Formosan Natives. Hokuseido Press, Tokyo, n.d.