behavior of the dying

Dusun

Iban (Writing)

comparative

Yucatec day-sign

[eyen wander unco-ordinately = "cross-eyed"]

(p. 38) "crossroads"

[cf. gecko, its each eye moving separately]

Kan (its glyph: reptile-eye ?) = [Aztec] "lizard"

"outbreak of perspiration on the dying person" (cold sweat)

"scorching" region

Zaratustrian region of scorching sands (to be traversed by soul wearing boots)

"fire-spirit" (in Book of C^ilam Balam)

"land of perpetual banquet"

["food" (in Psalm 34 & 111)]

"At this point a dying person will appear to be clutching at flowers and fruits."

"flowers or fruit"

p. 24 (# 20.c) durian flowers; (# 20.d) durian fruit

Manik (its glyph: hand-gesticulating)

"The stricken person now seems to be trying to kick a flying ball".

"ball game"

p. 25 (# 22.1) Bujan Agan Gemurai, hero of head-hunting

Popol Vuh: ball-game in the netherworld, divine rabbit stole the ball, which was a human head

Lamat = [Aztec] "rabbit"

"banana grove"

(# 23.1) wild-banana tree

"old, deaf woman ... surrounded by ... noisy chicks"

p. 26 (# 24.3) "Yapping, ... as of young ... puppies"

Oc "coyote"

"cooking the food for the souls, who, during the day, fashioned the boat which was to transport forty of them -- no more, no less -- ... to the further bank."

p. 27 (# 26.2) "taboo food"

Persian Simurg "40 birds"

Konyak

Ao

Sema

Angami

Meitei

Toda

Saribas, etc.

p. 165 "place for washing feet"

p. 189 "bathing place"

"regret at the sorrow of separation" hill

["last, mournful glance at the longhouse": Punan, p. 150]

p. 228 cross stream Lungritsu:

cross the steam Lai-Khong

p. 398 cross the "Avalache" river

Thongak "the main gate of the land of death"

refresh themselves in one of 2 pots (1 for adults)

p. 229 must hurl spear at tree

Moyotsung, judge of the spear-hurling

p. 94 fork in road

division of paths

divergence of paths

convergence of paths

though all reach the same goal

p. 399 convergence of paths at "hot knock stone": lose all love for world of the living

lose all diseases

men make incision on main-tree with knife; women pound with mortar

thread-bridge, whence some fall off, bitten by leeches

p. 190 shrinking "Bridge of Fear"

see grave-goods

"Earthen Door" or Worm Goddess Bunsu Belut [taleb "gate": Kelabit, p. 279]

voyage by boat [to sea; through "tunnel of darkness": Punan, p. 150]

p. 212 praecipice

p. 186 descent, via rope, to a cave

resist being devoured by Kolavo [p. 244 merely praetend to bite her lice]

struggle with Metsimo (= Pekujikhe of the Memi on p. 182, fn. 2)

pp. 227-8 line of white rock "girls-cloths-drying", "a collection of dead men's cloths laid out to dry by their dead girl friends"

[Rungus, p. 76: "Washing of the Bedclothes of the Members of the Household of the Deceased."]

p. 191 undergo 7 lives

become mist, to condense into dew {cf. "dew of lights" in Bible}

(Seeds, p. 37) musical "sound may guide the manang's soul, which is though to travel upriver in death, rather than downriver, the direction taken by the souls of the ordinary dead"

{the music is that needed to be experienced while living in order to attain these benefits after death, in Pythagorean & Radha-Swamin mysteries} {"upstream"-movement practiced in yoga}

sumpit (blowgun) "acts as a bridge [more accurately, a tunnel], extending from the human world to Mount Rabung." [Kayan, p. 314: funeral for aristocrats: "a tube out of sixteen sections of bamboo ...; this was called 'the bamboos for peeping' (bulu awang) with which the deceased could see the living."]

Kic^e` (in Popol Vuh): Hun C^uen & Hun Batz within blowgun in S^ibalba [buluh "bamboo"-plant: Saribas, p. 206] {in Sumerian tombs, a tube was implanted in buried corpse's mouth, extending to the surface in order to serve liquor to the dead}

p. 112 is taught sabak-song by Bunsu Bubut [Worm Goddess]

{Eskimo shaman's visionary encounter with praeternatural worms}

traversing "flower garden" while wearing "blinder charm" given by Entawai ["bat"]

Kic^e`: Cama-zotz ("deadly bat") [bats pollinate night-blooming cactus]

p. 130 casting the PUA> net [mio-soul (of skull) is caught in net: Konyak, p.94] {cf. nets obstructing flight to Daoist heavens; vis-a-vis Norse skull as sky}

Hawai'i: PUA is the goddess who re-assembleth the parts of a dismembered soul of the dead [Nightbird, p. 111: ritual to gather, by tinkling bells, the scattered souls of an individual] {Kayan, p. 300: re-assembling as beads (threaded together) -- cf. [western Han dynasty] suit of pierced-jade scales, threaded-together, worn by corpse of aristocrats}

(Kayan, p. 314) briefing to dead aristocrats: "these swimming boars will carry your load. The young kingfisher will fly ahead of you and announce your impending arrival ... Likewise the squirrel". -- (loc. cit., fn. 32:) "The Uma Daro' section ... substituted a tarsier (hiko) for the squirrel."

{is BRAN ("squirrel" in Kayan) cognate with [Irish] name of goddess BRAN-wen ?} {is HiKO cognate with [Kemetian] goddess-name H.Q "magic" = [<arabic] H.Q "truth" ?}

(Rungus, p. 62) "when the soul of a bobolizan arrives at Nabalu, all the resident souls capture it and put it in a pigsty for seven days ..."

cognate with [German] NieBeLUng, this NaBaLU for a bobolizan would be distinct from the mist which the ordinary dead become (according to the Saribas) {the pigsty is that of the sorceress Kirke in the Odusseis} [the 7 days for the shaman's soul being distinct from the 7 soul's nights' stay in the longhouse (Punan, p. 147)]