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 flight to 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 by merely praetending 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. 217 "souls go into butterflies" {Butterfly is 7^th flier on Codex Borgia, p. 71}

p. 184 7 lives (the 1^st a butterfly) at 7^th leaving rib on roof {cf. rib of >adam (B-R>S^YT 2:21)}

p. 191 undergo 7 lives

{cf. mist from the ground (B-R>S^YT 2:6)}

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

1^st

while alive, 4

2^nd

when recently dead, 3

3^rd

after one's own 2^nd death, 2

4^th

after 3^rd karo~ (death), 1 = po (species of deer)

5^th

deer, upon being killed, becoming konkore` (koan-bird) by day, serpent by night {cf. Kemetian mythic winged-serpents}

6^th

koan/serpent, upon being killed, becoming ve`ve` (butterfly)

7^th

butterfly, upon being killed, becoming "a tree-stump or a lizard" [by night & day, respectively?]

(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, aequivalent to the "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 of souls as beads (threaded together) -- cf. [western Han dynasty] suit of pierced-jade scales, threaded-together, worn by corpse of aristocrats

"Every dead Lhota has a bead or a cowrie tied on to his wrist with which to propitiate the spirit who guards the path." (Angami Nagas, p. 186)

(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)]