Comparisons with Chinese mythology
Fu-xi = Kalos [(GM 92.c) Kalos (nephew of Daidalos) is also named Kirkinos, Tantalos, or Talos]
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Fu-xi "had a human head with a snake’s body" (HChM, p. 119). |
Daidalos designated the corpse of Kalos as "a dead serpent" (GM 92.b). |
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"Fuxi holds a pair of compasses" (HChM, p. 119); |
Kalos invented "the compass for marking out circles" [his name /Kirkinos/ ‘circler’ being commemorative of this], and |
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Fu-xi made objects of "clay" (HChM, p. 123). |
"the potter’s wheel" (GM 92.b). |
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In a modern Fu-xi tale he is figured as inventor of the fishing-net – but Tai-hao (who was originally a distinct god) may have been the true agent here (HChM, p. 120). |
Britomartis of Gortune [/gortu-/ ‘grotto’ : Gortu- was son of Tegeates (GM 88.h)] "invented fishing-nets." (GM 89.a) |
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"Taihao is associated with Jinmu, ... an enormous tree" (HChM, p. 211). |
"Britomartis hid ... under thick-leaved oak-saplings in the water meadows" (GM 89.b). |
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Because this fishing-net was so successful in catching fish, therefore the Dragon King became "so angry that his eyes protruded from his head from then on." (HChM, p. 121) |
One eye is to protrude from the face of the Dajjal (/dujalah/ ‘liquid pitch’ – LA-L 2:9a) : cf. the "molten pitch" (RHBM, p. 349; cf. OCD, s.v. "Minos") poured upon Minos at Kamikos. |
HChM = Linhui Yang & Deming An : Handbook of Chinese Mythology. Oxford U Pr, 2005.
GM = Robert Graves : The Greek Myths. 1955. `
LA-L = Georgii Wilhelmi Freytagii : Lexicon Arabico-Latinum. Librairie du Liban, Beirut, 1975.
RHGM = Robin Hard : The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology. London, 2004. http://books.google.com/books?id=rX5oCVSuimUC&pg=PA349&lpg=PA349&dq=pitch+Minos+Kokalos&source=bl&ots=nP2k4e8DIf&sig=_t3lbR2XpMbCUF1Y5MFuNTwiyGk&hl=en&ei=12pHTZvNOoK78gbswMHgAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&sqi=2&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=pitch%20Minos%20Kokalos&f=false
OCD = Hammond & Scullard : The Oxford Classical Dictionary.
C^i-you & Huan-di
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C^i-you had "four eyes" : on account of him, |
"The Sukyeneza has four eyes." |
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"Huang Di asked the drought goddess Ba to descend from heaven" (HChM, p. 141). |
"The Kutshedra causes droughts." (according to the Skipetar of Albania – DE, vol. 2, p. 26) |
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C^i-you and his brethren each had an "iron forehead" (HChM, p. 140). |
The "iron forehead of an enormous centipede" (Japanese – "Y"). |
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C^i-you, in confronting the army of Huan Di, "made heavy fog for three days." (HChM, pp. 141 & 93) |
In confronting the Centipede-god of Nantai, a hot-water spring [this could produce steam] was created by the archery-bow of the god of Akagi (Japanese – "AS-O"). |
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When C^i-you died, "his shackles turned into a maple tree." (HChM, p. 93) |
Maple syrup was boiled by Gluskabe (Abenaki – "GChMS") [boiling would produce steam] |
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"Chiyou led many ferocious mythical animals to attack Huang Di at the Zhuolu plain." (HChM, p. 93) |
The god Maple Sapling [Yoskeha] created the animal species (Mohawk – IC "M", p. 302) : |
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The first two of the types of vanguards sent by Huan Di were "black bears, grizzly bears" (according to the Lie-zi -- HChM, p. 140). |
the first of the animals sent by Maple Sapling to assist mankind was Bear (IC "M", p. 303). |
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"Huang Di made ... from ... Kui, a one-legged mythical creature, ... sound ... so great that it prevented Chiyou from flying away" (HChM, p. 141). |
Tawiskaron mistook (IC "M", p. 311) as a human thigh the leg of a cricket [crickets making a great sound with their legs] carried in the mouth of a flying bluebird. |
DE = E. Latham : Descriptive Ethnology. Vol. II : "Europe, Africa, India". London. http://www.archive.org/stream/descriptiveethn01lathgoog/descriptiveethn01lathgoog_djvu.txt
"Y" = "Yumi : the Japanese Long Bow" http://ejmas.com/jcs/jcsart_denig_0301.htm
"AS-O" = http://www.powderlife.com/magazine/issue/5/features/niseko-onsen-guide
"GChMS" = "Gluskabe Changes Maple Syrup" http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/GluskabeChangesMapleSyrup-Abenaki.html
IC "M" = J. N. B. Hewitt : Iroquoian Cosmology. 1903. http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/iro/irc/irc05.htm "Mohawk"
S^ao-hao
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"Shaohao, or White God, lived on ... Changliu ("Long Flow"). ... |
"At the water's edge lay the body of a man-being who was as white as foam." (IC "M", p. 324) {cf. the god who, according to the Veda, was killed with foam} |
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Shaohao’s function was to observe the condition of sunset." (according to the S^an-hai Jin -- HChM, p. 188) |
"Now, at this time, toward the west, where the earth extends thitherward, there lies athwart the view" (IC "M", p. 332). |
Di Ku (Gao-xin)
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Two sons of Di Ku "became star gods." (HChM, p. 99) |
"Now also she, the Star, paid a visit." (IC "O", p. 174) |
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Another son of Di Ku was Hou-ji (HChM, p. 131). |
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When Hou-ji was born, his mother Jian Yuan "threw him away on the cold ice." (HChM, p. 132) |
Itztla-coliuhqui is Aztec god of cold and |
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At the mountain of king Ji, the stones are said to be "transformed from the seeds left by Houji and Jiang Yuan" (HChM, p. 134). |
of stones. |
"O" = "Onondaga" http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/iro/irc/irc03.htm#fr_5
Yao
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At the behest of Yao, Yi the archer shot down nine of the ten suns (HChM, p. 227), which ten suns "were all carried by crows" (HChM, p. 231). |
For the sake of the Gandharva (who is "the radiant sun"), Kr.s`anu the archer shot a flying falcon (according to the R.c Veda – PS`, p. 27). |
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Yao’s eldest son was Dan-zhu (HChM, p. 228). |
Angiras "was progenitor of the r.s.i Br.haspati" (according to the Br.hat-devata – "TT", p. 13). |
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Dan-zhu "became the best player" (HChM, p. 228) of the wei-qi game, "played on a square board of 391 intersections formed by nineteen vertical lines and nineteen horizontal lines". |
To Br.has-pati is ascribed the Barhas-patya year of 361 days, divided in the Baha>i calendar into 19 periods of 19 days apiece. |
PS` = Stella Kramrisch : The Presence of S`iva. Princeton U Pr, 1981. http://books.google.com/books?id=O5BanndcIgUC&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&dq=
"TT" = Laurie L. Patton : "The Transparent Text". In :- Wendy Doniger (ed.) : Puran.a Perennis. SUNY Pr, Albany, 1993. pp. 3-30. http://books.google.com/books?id=-kZFzHCuiFAC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=Purana+Brhaspati&source=bl&ots=Sr-dxD-8dV&sig=QGbnylKrW1lxNBHph_OV5-hLbt8&hl=en&ei=eEFITaCJKISq8AbEkaSdBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CDIQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Purana%20Brhaspati&f=false
S^un = Daidalos [N.B. : the events are in opposite sequence betwixt these 2 accounts.]
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Yao’s daughters E-huan and Nu:-yin "helped Shun to survive several murders plotted by his father and stepbrother" (HChM, p. 202). |
Kokalos’s daughters protected Daidalos from Minos (GM 92.i). |
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S^un worked "to repair the roof of a barn." (HChM, p. 202) |
At Kume (Cumae), Daidalos "built him a golden-roofed temple." (GM 92.h) |
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S^un "put on the coat with the bird pattern", and thus "flew out" to safety (HChM, p. 203). |
Daidalos "made a pair of wings for himself, and ... flew off." (GM 92.e) |
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"As soon Shun went down into the well, Xiang and his father blocked the mouth of the well." (HChM, p. 203). |
At Knossos, Minos in dealing with Daidalos "locked him up for a while in the Labyrinth, |
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"Shun swam out of the well with his magic dragon-patterned coat." (HChM, p. 203) {cf. Vi`king "dragon-ships"} |
together with his son", whose mother was NAU-krate (GM 92.d). [/NAU-/ ‘ship’] |
Yu:
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Gun "told people ... to grow cattail" (Tian-wen – HChM, p. 128). |
"the spike of a cattail flag" was recommended by Maple Sapling’s father (IC "M", p. 328). |
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Gun was recommended by the gods of Four Mountains (HChM, p. 128), |
Maple Sapling was challenged to move a mountain (IC, p. 334), |
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"and introduced city walls." (HChM, p. 129) |
and moved it to beside his back (IC "M", p. 335). |
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Gun "went to Lingxiao Palace (lingxiao literally means "reach to the clouds") (HChM, p. 129). |
Hinon "ascended on high where the clouds are present." (IC "M", p. 337) |
Jan 31-Feb. 1, 2011