p.

text

comparative

259

uplifted to heaven by whirlwind

as in the Wizard of Oz

263

lettuce-winged birds

sacred lettuce of the Yazidi

garlic-hurlers as fighters

cf. episode in the exodos wherein the populace is demanding garlic, mutinously (B-Midbar 11:5)

265

riders on crane-birds, from the stars over Kappadokia

[Daoist] xian ('immortals') "riding on cranes" (RCCh) [so, H.ittites were Daoists?]

265

enormous spiders intervened in the war between the sun-army and the moon-army:

[Jo Luo of Sudan] spider-god intervened in the battle between the sun-god and the moon-god (DAM, p. 88)

267

spiders built web to the moon.

[Tolowa of northern California] spiders made rope for climbing to the moon (FThF)

275

"They carry their children in the calf of the leg".

[Iban] "He noticed a curious swelling in the calf of his leg, and when he cut it open, a human being appeared." (I&ThR, p. 75)

277

flying frogs on the moon

[Angola] spiders built web to the moon for Frog (M&LB, cap. V)

285

Koronos ('crow') son of KOTTuphos ('blackbird = Turdus MERULA')

"four-&-twenty blackbirds": cf. 24 [Jaina] Tirthan-kara-s. MERULA (= modern Arosia) river in Ligustike; cf. COTTiae Alpes of Ligustike.

289

within belly of whale: temple of Poseidon

cf. temple of Poseidon in Atlantis

293

Tritono-mendetes are "like men above and catfish below" [mendes as 'goat' alluding to the 'goat-fish' constellation?]

[Kemetian] anthropoid catfish-gods (depicted in the Book of Caverns, Part 1, Upper Register -- AEBA, Fig. 49 = p. 93): [Kemetian] N<R 'catfish' would suggest [Skt.] god Nara-ayana, the brother of Nara

307

walkers on water

cf. Geelvinck Bay myth of walkers on water

309

cork-foundationed floating city

Cork on Eire (the 'Emerald Isle'): derived from Chinese 'floating cities' (of houseboats)

313

emerald-walled city of Rhadamanthus

'Emerald City' of the S`i<a, derived from [Daoist] city of 'Jade Emperor'.

altars of amethyst

[Daoist] "purple hall in the city of jade" (SGF, p. 22)

315

glass bath-houses; cobweb-clothing

cf. Japanese public nudity in bathhouses; Kemetian net-clothing worn by royal concubines, Rajput secret cobweb-rituals, and modern comic-strip characters 'Spiderman' & 'Madame Web'

fruit-trees bear fruit 13 times per year

13-months year is reckoned in sidereal lunar months (not in lunar phase-cycles), employing lunar mansions [could be, in provenience, Chinese, Hindu, or <arabian]

317

mushroom-trees

Chinese?

"three hunted and sixty-five springs of water,

the 365 of Basilideanism; & at Mekka

as many of honey, five hundred of myrrh--much smaller, however--seven rivers of milk and eight of wine."

"a land flowing with milk and honey" (Yirmyah 32:22)

scented clouds

Chinese [Daoist]! -- a frequent descriptive of heaven

321

Diogenes married Lai:s the courtesan

so the Cynic philosopher is a pimp?!

323

"They all have their wives in common ..."

characteristic of Yun-nan, as among the Mo-suo (LML)

The original name of Homeros was Tigranes.

This is an Armenian name (exclusively so?), capital city Tigrano-kerte.

325

Thersites

allusion to necrophilia (on the Amazon warrioress) by Akhilleus -- but, would the name "Amazon" derive from [S^into] /Amaterasu/?

327

battle by Pituo-kamptes {‘pinetree-bender’ : cf. the overcome of A’-za’g the Sumerian pinetree (AL, p. 229) by (AL, p. 225, fn. 2) Nin-girsu} & Bousiris

Pitu- is "pine-tree", and Bousiris sought to abduct the apple-tree goddesses -- so is this a version of the [Cymry] "Battle of the Trees"?

329

bean-eating to celebrate the deaths of enemies

cf. "bean paste in the coffin" (CTFR) at Chinese funerals

Helene eloped with Kinuras [perhaps escaping from Proteus, her chaperone according to Stesikhoros]

The 3 daughters of Kinuras "were made to serve as prostitutes" at Paphos (CDCM, s.v. "Cinyras").

333

"neither to stir the fire with a sword-blade nor to eat lupines

this Puthagorean prohibition may be a suggestion as to the affiliation of the author (Loukianos): Noumenios, another humorist mystic, was likewise said to be a Puthagorean

nor to make love to anyone over eighteen"

This is a common recommendation in weird modern cults, such as the "Family of Love".

335

sword-blade ground

climbing upon arrays of sword-blades in Daoist exhibitions (such as by the Yao of Guan-si -- CMS)

337

rooster in City of Dreams:

a rooster (CDCM, s.v. "Alectryon") encouraged secret adultery (between Aphrodite & Ares);

339

in this "rainbow"-city is a water-spring of drowsiness.

there was a water-spring of Ares; it was visited (GM 58.g) by Kadmos, who afterwards became (GM 59.e) a serpent [cf. African & Australian aboriginal rainbow-serpents].

343

pumpkin-boated pirates

pumpkin-deity is worshipped in Borneo: it is there said to occasion perverted sexual desires

345

dolphin-riding pirates

river-dolphins is said to occasion spirit-possession of their worshippers on the Solimo~es-Maranho river (Brazil) "Men are said to feel an intense pleasure during coitus with dolphins, and are sometimes unable to separate themselves." (AI)

enormous kingfishers

Alkuone ('kingfisher') as a daughter (GM 45.2) of Aiolos & En-arete, committed (GM 43.h) incest with her own brother.

347

"the ship's mast budded, branched, and bore fruit at the summit!"

the rod of >ahro^n budded; Dio-nusos caused a grape-vine to "grow from the deck and enfold the mast" (GM 27.h).

349

athwart praecipice, a water-bridge to the isle of the Bou-kephaloi ('ox-heads').

implying a gondola-traversable water-streeted city (like Venice) as labyrinth to the mino-taur. Is this a genuine antient Venetian myth?

351

as ransom, " four does, each of which had only three feet, for while they had two behind, the forefeet had grown together."

cf. the [Zaratustrian] 3-legged ass in the sea Vouru-kas^a = Caspian -- the connection with Mino-tauros may be through (on Kephallonia) the goddess Laphria ('doe') having been pursued by Minos (GM 89.b).

353

ships' sails attached to genitalia [so construed by commentators]

the [Norse] goddess Frigg ('masturbate') saileth aboard a [frigate-]ship whose sails are said to be fastened with ropes of sexual desires. (Hymis-kvida, Solar-ljo,d, 77 -- HK & N)

353-5

ass-legged [Empousai] goddesses (GM 55.a) sought to murder unsuspecting men while they sleep, after sexually seducing those men

Amongst the Tamil, "if a newly married girl becomes possessed [by a spirit], she will try to strangle her husband during sexual intercourse." (DATV, p. 60)

Yamani

Kommagene

rN~in-ma of Bod

p.

text

p.

text

group

goddess

71

"silver ... inscribed all over with names and charms in Syriac lettering"

255

"a slab of bronze, inscribed with Greek letters"

105

"near the edges of the stone, two footprints"

255

"two footprints in the rock"

255

of Khios

south 3

female scorpion [in Khios sojourned (GM 41.a) Orion, who afterward fought (GM 41.d) the Scorpion]

114

"apple juice"

257

"a spring of clear wine" [apple juice is clearer than most wines]

south 4

white female hawk [apples are white within]

248

"maidens hanging by their hair from the branches"

257

women: "the hair of their heads was tendrils and leaves and clusters!"

south 5

Dan.d.a 'rod' the vixen {cf. Lokrian myth of bitch who gave birth to grapevine-stalk}

259

"bright and round and shining with a great light."

south 6

tigress [= Chinese White Tigress]

261

vultures

west 1

female vulture

263

emmets

west 2

+RaTi [cf. emmets separating seeds at demand by eRoT-]

263

GRass-birds

west 3

GaRud.i

265

sparrows

west 5

female hoopoe

269

cloud-kentauroi

west 6

doe-deer {cf. Aztec doe-deer wife of cloud-god Mix-coatl}

279

removable-eyed people [blue-eyed people -- IN, p. 200]

north 1

she-wolf {cf. removable-eye North American Coyote-god}

281

leaf-eared people [big-eared people -- IN, loc. cit.]

north 5

female elephant [cf. elephant-ear plants]

247 sq.

Waqwaq "cuckoo"

285

cuckoo

gate 1

cuckoo

ASBDhY

AD

BB, pp. 152-158.