Caucasian Mythology – Eastern Kaukasos
C^ec^en = Jaina
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C^ec^en |
Jaina |
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"Na:sni ... slew sixty-three Erchustojer Narts" (ShJC, p. 61). |
the Jaina-s emphasize that they worship a total of 63 deities (ITCh, App. 12) : |
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Na:sni rode on the back of a rhinoceros. (ShJC, p. 62). |
one (the 11th) of those 63 Jaina deities hath as his symbol the rhinoceros ("BDT"). |
ITCh = Illustrated Tirthankar Charitra http://www.jainworld.com/book/24tirthankaras/app12.asp
"BDT" = http://www.ejainism.com/tirthankar.html
Ingus^ = Hellenic = Aztec
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Ingus^ |
Hellenic |
Aztec |
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"the hero ... tore off the calf {shank} of his [own] leg" (ShJC, p. 78). {This Ingus^ hero = Amerindian god "Sharpened Leg", who cut all the flesh off his own leg.} |
"When Tlaltecuhtli came up to bite off his foot, |
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"the hero clove apart the sarmak’s jaw" (ShJC, p. 77). |
Tezcatlipoca ... ripped off her lower jaw." ("ET") |
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The hero "saw a sleeping man who was guarding three beautiful girls. The hero cut off his head" (ShJC, p. 77). |
Hermes saw Argos Pan-optes, sleeping, guarding a cow; and "cut off his head" (GM 56.a). |
One of the 2 naualli of Tezcatli-poca is chalchiuh-totolin ("WhIT"). |
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"The hero seized the black lamb by the leg and |
As Krio-phoros ‘Lamb’s Carrier’ (ThGH, vol. II, p. 52), Good Shepherd ("OHH") Hermes |
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found himself in the lower world." (ShJC, p. 77) |
is guide of the dead to the netherworld. |
sarmak is a "dragon" (ShJC, p. 76)
"Sharpened leg" is "tornado" http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/arqueologia/monks_mound02.htm
The peafowl (which Argos Pan-optes became) is quite similar in its behaviour to the turkey (chalchiuh-totolin). The swinging open of the ribcage of Yoalli-Ehecatl (aspect of Chalchiuh-totolin) would suggest the rib extracted from the sleeping >adam, whose name ‘Red’ would indicate the Red Tezcatli-poca (as distinguished from the Black Tezcatli-poca).
Since Tlatlauhqui (‘Red’) Tezcatli-poca is (as Camaxtli-Mixcoatl) said to be the son of Yayauhqui (‘Black’) Tezcatli-poca, Camaxtli-Mixcoatl may be aequivalent to some son of Hermes, such as Pan. [If this name /Pan/ be cognate with Skt. /Pavana/ (‘Wind’), then Yoalli-Ehecatl (‘Night-Wind’) might be confirmed as an identity.]
"ET" = http://www.amoxtli.org/cuezali/exploits.html
GM = Robert Graves : The Greek Myths. 1955.
"WhIT" = http://www.amoxtli.org/cuezali/is.html
ThGH = G. R. S. Mead : Thrice Greatest Hermes. http://books.google.com/books?id=KbYnsRQzWOsC&pg=PA52&lpg=PA52&dq=Hermes+%22Good+Shepherd%22&source=bl&ots=Yegshy7EpV&sig=ZEYMFA19vnaSsBAbEiue-lOn5fM&hl=en&ei=QBoRTeqLLsL38Aa519TqDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Hermes%20%22Good%20Shepherd%22&f=false
"OHH" = "Orphic Hymn to Hermes" http://www.templehermes.com/temple.html
Ingus^ = S^into
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"the hero easily plucked out the sword" from the sarmak’s body (ShJC, p. 78). |
Susano-O found, in a dragon’s body, a sword ("S-O") |
"S-O" = http://www.uwec.edu/philrel/shimbutsudo/susano-o.html
C^ec^en = Astika
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C^aiton "has to feed the eagle ... with his own flesh" (ShJC, p. 81). |
S`ibi fed his own flesh to a hawk (K, bk. 10, p. 475, n. 4). |
K = Edwin F. Bryant : Krishna. http://books.google.com/books?id=ecVcghzVUDYC&pg=PA475&lpg=PA475&dq=Sibi+flesh+Purana&source=bl&ots=QAspf_f-3e&sig=G9uZD7RDbnvHSEkJFs263M0LAhY&hl=en&ei=HQERTaTGJ8OC8gaS7LSTCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Sibi%20flesh%20Purana&f=false
ShJC = Michael Berman : Shamanic Journeys through the Caucasus. O Bks, 2009. http://books.google.com/books?id=XQWjm5R78HgC&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77&dq=