p.

line

deity

created __

110

91

Buenz-guj (= Pan-gu)

too many suns

93

too many stars

114

157

Deih-vuenz ("Earthly King")

360 kinds of tree

159

360 kinds of long-grass

116

179

the Sky-gods

1^st the chicken (gaeq)

180

2^nd the hound (ma)

181

3^rd the pig (mou)

183

4^th the goat (yienz)

184

5^th the water-buffalo (vaiz)

185

6^th the horse (max)

186

7^th the human-being (vunz) limbless

202

Fuz-yih (= Fu-xi)

arms & legs added onto thitherto limbless humans

118

228

Cauz-si

houses

120

252

Sui-cauz (= Sui-jen)

fire

263

Mbwn ("Heaven")

big rice (haeux laux)

264

Salary rice (haeux loeg)

278

taro (biek)

279

sweet-potato (sauz)

280

Ragimillet (haeux vaen)

281

a peach

282

an orange

122

283

white rice (haeux hau)

292

big hemp (ndaij laux)

305

Sui-cauz

clothes (made of the big hemp)

124

333

Fuz-yih

12 moons

334

12 suns

349

universal deluge "that reached to the sky"

354

Fuz-yih & his younger sister

marriage (between themselves, brother and sister)

126

366-7

their child

"was like a long stone, ... was like a mill-stone"

130

426-7

Saenz-noenz (S^en-nun)

split in the sky (to form path, road for him to descend, ll. 429-30)

443

Daiq-boz Ginh-sinh (Tai-bo Metal-star)

spake to Saenz-noenz; and likewise,

444

Swjvei Ginh-sinh (Zi-wei Metal-star)

spake to Saenz-noenz, both of them saying, that:

445

the sparrow

is able to cross the sea.

452

the buffalo

fetched the Salary-rice (haeux loeg)

453

the horse

fetched the longevity-rice (haeux lienz)

ch.

event

1^st

Pan-gu-S^i divideth heaven & earth

2^nd

the Tian-huan establish the heavenly stems & earthly branches

3^rd

the Di-huan divide the sun,moon, and stars

4^th

the Ren-huan divine the mountains, streams, & 9 regions

7^th

You-c^ao-S^i teacheth the people to build houses

8^th

Sui-ren-S^i useth knotted cords to govern

9^th

Fu-Xi draweth the trigrams and establisheth the world

15^th

S^en-non teacheth the people the art of the 5 grains

version of myth in Hon-s^ui river basin

Mandarin pronunciation

Z^uan form of Chinese name

Mandarin form of name

Daek-doux

Daek-dou

Fu-Yi

Fu-Xi

+Dah-daeuh

+Da-daeu

Nu:-Gua

Z^uan

comparative

p. 19 "Mo Loekgyap was the ancestress of the human race ... She was born out of the middle of a flower, and is described as naked and covered with long body-hair ...

Bodish: ancestress of the human race was a female monkey, who naturally was naked and covered with long body-hair.

Mo Loekgyap ... created mankind, by urinating in the mud and kneading the mud into human figures ...

Chinese: goddess moulded the first humans out of mud.

p. 20 [of which those who picked up a peach became female, while those who snatched up chilli peppers became male."

pp. 65-66, n. 25 Mo Loek-gyap (a feminine name) is personification of the Mo roek gyap ("with six volumes", an allusion to the residual scriptures after 6 of the original 12 were intentionally burned.

Roman: The Sibylline Oracles (ascribed to a female, the Sibyl) were said to be residual from a larger stock, most whereof had been intentionally burned.

relation

function

mother

Luo clan

father

Lu clan

eldest brother

horse-seller

2^nd brother

waterbuffalo-seller

3^rd brother

cattle-raider

4^th brother

artisan

5^th brother

willow-wielder

6^th brother

ritual-dagger-wielder

gogauj "the camphor tree was used to prop up the sky"

golimh the coralwood-tree, having purple sap, is used for coffins

deity

created __

serpent

fords & stream-beds

the 9-headed dragon

water-springs

king Gamj-loh

roads

You could watch the stars go to their lovers [the comets, p. 116].

One could pick the stars and put them in a basket, ...

When a wife pounded rice in a mortar she bumped the sky,

When the old woman was pounding rice she bumped the sky,

When an old man chopped firewood he bumped the clouds."

When the old man was splitting firewood he bumped the clouds."

The green bamboo carp took the yarn in its mouth and went into the cave".

Cf. the Ariadne's yarn taken into the cavernous Labyrinth of the Minotauros.

p. 126 "They were afraid of burning the dry-field of" Gamj-ga.

S^in-to goddess Izana-mi died in giving birth to the fire-god; cf. also the Ainu fire-goddess

p. 139 Gamj-ga "is 'cave [between] the thighs' -- i.e. the female genitalia."

p. 128 the 3 sparks of the 1^st fire from mugwort-tinder

spark

was carried away by the __

1^st

firefly

2^nd

siphaz "grass-millipede" ("red in colour, the body of which glows in the dark" -- p. 139)

3^rd

hearthfire (p. 130)

p. 130 sherds from the jar-pot cracked by the 1^st fire

sherd at

became evil __

hearth

spirit in ashes

river-bank

genie of fish

wet-field

rice

byre

oxen & water-buffalo

the trunk-coffer

silver money

the arm

earrings & bracelets

pp. 130 & 132

the evil genie of the __

causeth __

East

elder & young siblings lay hands on each other

South

father & son arguewith each other

West

husband & wife curse at each other

North

mother-in-law & daughter-in-law strike each other

Centre

other family-discords

p.

Z^uan

<ibri^: plagues upon Mis.rayim

132

"The king took his staff", but it failed.

rods of the king's 2 magicians fail (LB, p.327)

"They eat the ducks". [Because ducks eat frogs, this would cause a proliferation of frogs.]

3^rd: frogs (LB, pp. 331, 333-4)

"When he threw in his line he caught no fish."

1^st: river became blood (i.e., unsuitable for fish) (LB, pp. 330-1, 333)

"A tiger seized".

4^th: lions, panthers, etc. (LB, p. 331)

134

king's "eldest son then died."

10^th: death of the 1^st-born (LB, pp. 332, 342)

Z^uan

<ibri^: commandments

134

"... the ten Tutelary Spirits below,

the 10 Commandments

... the fifteen Tutelary Spirits above. ...

the 15 "Psalms of Ascent"

A many-coloured rock becomes a Tutelary Spirit."

the tablets whereon "they are engraved ... were made of a sapphire-like stone." (LB, p. 398)

pig-stye & hound-kennel

duck-pen & chicken-coup

bedroom

corner of partition

wine-strainer

p. 146 creations by divine creators & creatrix

creator / creatrix

thing which was created

bik-lik ("lightning-flash")

dien-deih ("heaven [&] earth")

Buenz-guj (Pan-gu)

yaen-yienz (yin [&] yan)

Saenz-noenz (S^en-non)

hoenz haeux ("soul of rice")

Yienh-souj (Yan-s^ou)

hoenz bya ("soul of fish")

Vuenz Caet-ga (Wan Qi-ge = "king of 7 songs")

rij ("streams")

boux Rox-gviq (Ro-gui)

caeg-boh ("father-of-brigands") Hanq-vuez

yah Hoen-doenz ("old-Mrs. Hun-dun")

bienz ("world")

lu4 gao1

lu4 yuan2

lu4 ding1

lu4 lin2

lu4 feng2

lu4 gui4 (Ro-gui)

Weanz Ons-donh (= [Z^uan] Vuenz Hoen-doenz), born without limbs nor apertures; later acquired them by their being painted-on;

Pan-guo [Bou-yei aequivalent for Pan-gu ?], who fathered

was drowned at river-crossing {became Tirthan-kara "ford-maker"}

Han-vuen & Co-vuen [Hanq-vuenz is older step-brother to Coj-vuenz]

p. 146 sam duz nenz-yae ("3 parasitic wasps")

p. 93 mud-nest is built by wasp having parasitic larvae

sam meh nenz-coenz ("3 mother scarabs")

p. 93 scarab induced faeces

p. 171 same as manz duz mbwn "old lord of heaven"

{with mbwn "heaven" cf. Mabana i., in Puget sound; and Mebane, NC} {cf. also the Welsh book Mabi-nogion}

p. 172 [Chinese] xian1 "immortal"

p. 172 [Lao] the^n "sky-dwelling gods who are all-seeing"

Lanz-laux (Lan-lao)

Nauz-san (Ao-s^an) [p. 169 ao = enormous legendary turtle under Pen-lai is.]

Lanz-han (Lan-han) [p. 170 / Lanz-hanq lanz "hollow in karst" + hanq "goose"]

Couh-miz (Z^ou-mei) [p. 170 / Coj-miz = old man who advised brother & sister Wei-ron & Wei-yin that they procreate anew humankind after world-deluge -- they had come in a gourd with seeds of eleusine, millet, rice, buckwheat, soy, and broadbeans]

out of __

was made its __

waterlogged wood

legs

yanmin-fruits

teats

hardwood-trees

bones

wild-plantain leaves [curled into tube-shape, p. 188]

intestines

whetstone

liver

red earth

flesh

hornets' nests

stomach

river-rocks

hooves

dagger-point

horns

liquidambar leaf

tongue

big floppy leaves

ears

sumu-shrub sap

blood

various creations

creator / creatrix

creation

nieg gouj-gyaeuj ("serpent the 9-headed")

riverbeds

lunz gouj-gyaeuj ("dragon the 9-headed")

water-springs

Liuz sanh-mei ("Liu 3^rd sister") ["who first invented song", p. 205; she, together with a youth from White Crane, turned to stone at grotto of embroidery, p. 206]

lovers

roeg gouj-gyaeuj ("bird the 9-headed") [spectral Gui-ju ("ghost-cart"), appearing as a girl during the day-time, was 10-headed until the hound of heaven bit off one of its heads, p. 206]

fruit [oranges in orange-orchards, p. 206]

the people of An-lag (An-luo)

water-buffalo

yah gouj-gyaeuj ("old woman the 9-headed")

pigs

p. 196 creation of the swine

out of __

was made its __

bamboo-culm sheaths

skin

teased cotton

flesh

wasp-nests

stomach

water-spinach [a hollow-stemmed vegetable, p. 206 {cf. fennel}]

entrails [intestines, guts]

longan-kernels

eyen

yanmin-fruits

nipples

red wine

blood

sharp iron

hooves

"bone-grass"

body

long grass stems

legs

p. 198 gains from sow's litters

litter

gain

1^st

buy pond to raise fish

2^nd

buy wet-fields to plant rice

3^rd

raise a son

4^th

smelt metal bracelets

5^th

obtain money

6^th

clear debts

7^th

make sacrifices & offerings

8^th

become an official

9^th

put silver out on loan

10^th

"glowed with prosperity"

p. 220 "Heaven ... fashioned the camphor-tree,

Earth ... created the Nepal mango."

p. 220 "up above, ... the ten primordial pillars."

p. 222 "The nine-headed serpent created the river-beds,

The nine-headed Dragon created rivers."

p. 222 "... the river-deer has charcoal,

... the sparrowhawk has iron."

p. 226 caught in weir, the green bamboo-carp became:

"... the serpent in the ditch,

... the dragon in the Sea."

p. 228 green-finned cavern-dace [black-backed, flat-headed, p. 116]

large-scaled green bamboo-carp

yellow-finned catfish [Amur catfish, p. 239]

red-finned spotted murrel ["flower fish", p. 238]

creator / creatrix

created __

Hoen-doenz (Hun-dun)

boxes

Can-lienz

gardens

king Lanz-hanq

tongs

king Sanh-huz

houses

king Bi-fan

water-wheel

Lanz-hanq

granaries

king Dah-nez

cast-nets

king Loz-laz

blocking-nets

deity

auspicious

inauspicious

Establishment

all

Removal

removal of the old, and welcoming of the new

Fulfilment

offerings & vows

Aequilibrium

all

Setting-in-place

banquets & agreements

medical treatment & lawsuits

Capture

hunting & fishing

moving to another place

Bursting

medical treatment & dismantling houses

Danger

military campaigns

Completion

weddings; beginning school

lawsuits

Harvest

ending & completion of activities

Opening

offerings & weddings

burials

Closure

mending walls & patching dykes