Non-Irish Parallels with Various Irish Myths
Eire |
Iceland; Hellas |
Puran.a |
DAUI (Dalta Dedad) blinded (pierced eyes of?) his brother (CM&F, p. 118a). |
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Ani-manDAVYa, was, along with 2 thieves, pierced with a trident ("A-M"). |
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DAUI (Ladrach) was displaced from kingship by Lugaid Lai`ghde (CM&F, p. 118a-b), because the latter acceded to sexual intercourse with a woman who demanded it of him (CM&F, p. 296a). |
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A brahmin [= Lugaid] in Pratis.t.hana went to have sexual intercourse with a prostitute (MKP, p. 38) : on his way he collided with (MKP, p. 39) ManDAVYa [= Ladrach]. |
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DEUkalion's son Molos miraculously became headless (DCM, p. 296a). |
The head of Kaus`ika was imprecated by ManDAVya to explode into 1000 pieces ("LD"). |
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Cf. the carrying, on the back of To`rr, of god O,RVANdil who |
Mandavya is (according to the MKP) seated on a chair-of-spikes, similar to that carried in Taoist procession. |
The meaning of /ladrach/ is "crooked-toed" (DCeM, p. 115a) |
forfeited his toe (which became a star) : and ORi[W]ON (who became a constellation) was stung on the foot (by a scorpion). |
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CM&F = Patricia Monaghan : [Encyclopedia of] Celtic Mythology and Folklore. Checkmark Bks (imprint of Facts On File), NY, 2004.
"A-M" = "Ani-Markandeya". http://www.mahapurana.com/hindu-mythology/ani-mandavya-sage/
MKP = Markan.d.eya Puran.a. https://books.google.com/books?id=KxuerJwnuKsC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=
"LD" = "Lord Dattatreya". http://medievalsaint.blogspot.com/2014/08/lord-dattatreya.html
DCeM = James MacKillop : Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. Oxford Univ Pr, 1998.
[written Sept 23 2015]
Because Ori[w]on was "swimming in the sea" (GMI"O"), therefore for it is called "DAVY (i.e., Ladrach) Jones's Locker", where /Jones/ is < [CM&F, p. 118b] /S^oney/, god worshipped [CM&F, p. 419a] on Lewis and Harris I.s. "Locker" could refer to the Manx padlocked-to-boat [CM&F, p. 318a] St Maughold.
GMI"O" = Greek Myth Index, s.v. "Orion". http://www.mythindex.com/greek-mythology/O/Orion.html
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MM&L = Margaret Orbell : [Illustrated Encyclopedia of] Maori Myth and Legend. Canterbury Univ Pr, 1995.
LI = Da`ithi` O` hO`ga`in : The Lore of Ireland [: an Encyclopaedia of Myth, Legend and Romance]. Boydell Pr, Woodbridge (Suff.); & Collins Pr (Cork), 2006.
M-PCD = Edward Tregear : Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary.
Lyon & Blair, Wellington, 1891.
M-PCD, p. 449 http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-TreMaor-c1-12.html#n449
M-PCD, p. 381 http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-TreMaor-c1-10.html#n381
HD = Mary Kawena Pukui & Samuel H. Elbert : Hawaiian Dictionary. Univ Pr of HI, Honolulu, 1971.
[written Sept 24 2015]
"To roll down in a jerking manner, as down a series of steps" could be taken to refer to transfering one's attention, succssively, to a series of vortices, each whereof is the commencement of a cakra in Kun.d.alini yoga. The first cakra is ajn~a, which is attained by combining the currents of : firstly, id.a (sourced at the rear of one's head), and secondly pingala (sourced at one's forehead). The rear of one's head is referred to in the expression, "Get thee behind me, S`at.an", referring to S`atanika (mentioned in the Puran.a); whereas [with /pingala/ cf. Latin /pingere/ 'to paint'] the forehead is (for males, in the Pas`upata Order) painted with three horizontal stripes (denoting Chinese trigrams, described in the Yi C^in), or (for females) painted with a colored bin.d.u (dot) -- the variety of bin.d.u-s are personified (as, e.g., Tr.n.a-bin.d.u) in the Puran.a.
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Diarmait (ua Duibne) = Dharma-t.hakura
Eire |
Hellas |
Puran.a |
DiARMAIT's wife sought to tryst with [CM&F, p. 104a] CRIMTHann. |
Krimissos (KRIMiTTos) used to carry pilgrims across the river. |
Could a river-turtle have been intended by the "tortoise" [SBCI, p. 349] of DHARMA-T.Hakura? |
Because he was not available on Sunday (cf. travel forbidden on S^abbat by the Talmud), [CM&F, p. 38b] "she met Flann instead." Fland [CM&F, p. 209b] ("blood-red" [CM&F, p. 197a]). |
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sea-god Varun.a [< */VaLuNa/ {cognate with /FLaNd/}], the saltiness of blood being often likened to that of sea-water. |
SBCI = Lal Mani Joshi : Studies in the Buddhistic Culture of India [During the Seventh and Eighth Centuries A.D.]. 2nd edn, 1977. (1st edn. was 1967.) https://books.google.com/books?id=-epU7NHNCOQC&pg=PA349&lpg=PA349&dq=
[written Sept 24 2015]
Diarmait mac Cerbaill
Eire |
Iceland |
Hellas |
[CM&F, p. 197a] "Flann ['Blood'] mac Di`ma, lover of MUGAIN, wife of DIARMAIT mac Cerbaill" (/CeRBall/ being likely cognate with Hellenic /KoRoiBos/). |
[The English word /harp/ (Old English /HEARPe/) is evidently cognate with /KORoiBos/.] |
The valley of river Sangarios ('bloody', in Latin) was ruled by king [DCM, p. 298b, s.v. "Mygdon 1"] MUGdon, father of Koroibos ('fool, jester') the husband of [DCM, p. 111a, s.v. "Coroebus 2"] Kassandra (who may = Mugain). |
Mugain was jealous [CM&F, p. 342b] of her co-wife Mairenn, but "Mairenn was bald" [CM&F, p. 309b], until she acquired hair made of gold. |
To`rr's wife Si`f was bald (having been snatched bald-headed by Loki), until she acquired hair made of gold (manufactured by dwergar). |
Kassandra was treacherously killed by her co-wife Klutaemnestra [DCM, p. 107b], who had been wife of [DCM, p. 431, s.v. "Tantalus 2"] Tantalos. |
This particular /TaNTALos/ may be a reverse-spelling of /LATiNus/, name of an ally of [DCM, p. 460a] Turnus, whose name is cognate with the Old English torn-rune referring to Bo,l-torn, who is father (according to Rydberg's exegesis of the Ha`va-Ma`l) of Mi`mir = Mimas son of [DCM, s.v. "Curetes", p. 116b] Socos.
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Dharma-t.hakura, being "Immaculate ['without spot'] (niran~jana)", must be distinguished from the Dharma aequivalent to Ball Seirc ('Love-Spot').
Eire |
Persia |
Hellas etc. |
Diarmait (Ball Seirc)'s & Grainne's daughter E`achtach having a "golden sword" (LI, p. 175a). |
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Medousa, from whose dying body came forth Chrus-aor 'golden sword'. |
E`achtach was slain by Lodharn. |
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Medousa was slain by Perseus. |
This Diarmait was slain by being stabbed [CM&F, p. 227b] with a bristle of Gulben. |
With /GULben/, cf. Persian /GUL/ 'rose-plant'); with Gulben's bristle, cf. a rose-plant's thorn. |
Cf. the Romance of the Rose (perhaps intended a a satire on the Wars of the Roses in Britain). |
In another variant, Diarmaid (Ball Seirc) is slain, alike unto Adonis (LI, p. 175), by the boar.
Fionn = Vyana
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Eire |
Puran.a |
MeDb is married to |
Malaya-ganDHi is abducted by |
CoNCobar [CM&F, p. 95b], who dieth of wound by |
KaNKala-ketu, who is slain by |
Cet mac MaTach [DCeM, s.v. "Conchobar mac Nessa", p. 89a] |
AMiTra-jit (PE, s.v. "Amitrajit"). |
[LI, s.v. "Conchobar mac Neasa", p. 112a] Conchobar after death "had preserved his soul and deposited in in the hollow of his skull." |
The meaning of /Kankala-ketu/ is 'Skeleton-banner'. (With /-ketu/ cf. Irish /Cet/.) |
PE = Vettam Mani : Puran.ic Encyclopaedia. Delhi, 1975. https://archive.org/stream/puranicencyclopa00maniuoft/puranicencyclopa00maniuoft_djvu.txt
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Breton/Cymry/Eire |
Nippon; Polynesia |
Hellas; Puran.a |
FER FI` [DCeM, p. 187b], who "played suantraighe, "sleep music," [CM&F, p. 184b] stole |
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Hermes [< */WERW/meI-] played sleep-music (to pan-optes). |
a female housekeeper's "comb", but returned it [CM&F, s.v. "Lough Gur", p. 295a]; |
Izana-gi threw a "comb" so as to hindre his sistre Izana-mi, and |
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he stayeth in a yew-tree (DCeM, p. 188a]. |
likewise employed 3 peaches, after |
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[Breton] Gar-gam, with sobriquet 'the lame', is aequated with [DCeM, p. 219b] [Cymry] Gwrgwnt, who [MB"G"] "is maimed." |
feeding with grapes {cf. grape-god Dio-nusos, born from the shank of Zeus} : |
Jharjha [a better reading than /Jambha/] is father of |
A "birth chair" is located at |
thereupon it is declared that in a "parturition-house ... people would surely be born. (Kojiki, pt. 2). |
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SUiDeachaN, a site whereafter viewers of spectral sightings "were likely to drown" [CM&F, p. 432b]. |
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SUNDa [the name of a sea amid Nusantara] (also known as S`unda), whom |
TeTHba is the "secret name" [CM&F, p. 445a] of the goddess of the upper SI`NAnn (Shannon) river valley [DCeM, p. 357a] : cf. Si`n ('Storm'), mistress of |
[HM, p. 523] Hina-ulu-ohia [< */SINA-/] hath as her brother him whose name signifieth 'Wind', namely |
TaT.aka [or Tad.aka] (daughter of Su-ketu, a yaks.a) made her husband. She, along with their two sons |
the high king who sent the coronation-stone, namely MuircherTAch mac Erca [DCeM, p. 299a]. |
Makani-kau [< */MaTAni-tau/], who voyageth accompanied by kupua [< */tupua/] who "have ... stone, or cliff bodies." |
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Si`n's husband MUIrchertach mac Erca "climbs into a wine cask" [DCeM, p. 299b]. |
Hina-uri [< */Sina-uli/]'s 2nd husband "MaUI digs a channel" [MM&L, p. 53b]. |
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[Arthurian] MARRoCK was a wolf who could transform into a human [CM&F, p. 315a]. |
Hina-uri's 1st husband Ira-waru had been transformed into a hound. |
MARiCa and Su-bahu, was transformed by Agastya [PE, s.v. "Tat.aka"]. |
Eochaid mac EiRC was married to goddess TaiLTiu, but afterwards she married his rival [CM&F, p. 436b]. |
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MARiCa and Su-bahu contended for apsaras TiLa-utTama (WL"S"). |
Kojiki http://www.sacred-texts.com/shi/kojiki.htm
MB"G" = Myth Beasts "Gwrgwnt". http://www.mythicalcreatureslist.com/mythical-creature/Gwrgwnt
HM = Martha Beckwith : Hawaiian Mythology. Yale Univ Pr, 1940.
WL"S" = Wisdom Library "Sunda". http://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/sunda/index.html
[written Sept 24 2015; Nippon & Polynesia added Sept 25 2015]
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Eire |
Tagalog of Luzon |
Promptly after he had been slain, Cailitin's wife gave birth [CM&F, p. 68a] to 3 sons and 3 "one-eyed daughters" [CM&F, p. 68b], who assisted "LUGAIDH mac Con Ro`". |
["PhP"] Batala is father of a son (Apolaki) and 3 daughters (Tala goddess of the stars, Hala goddess of the dawn, and Mayari the "One-Eyed Goddess.") |
"Lugaidh mac Con Roi`, son of CU` ROI` ... is ... the son of BLA`THNAT" [CM&F, p. 296a], "whose name means "little flower," [CM&F, p. 48b] was forcibly taken from the Otherworld [CM&F, p. 110b]. |
"Bighari, the Goddess of Flowers", was banished from heaven ["FRL"]. {In mythologies, flowers are often considered of Otherworld (heavenly) origin.} |
"PhP" = "Philippine Pantheon". https://patrickpaulalvarado24.wordpress.com/category/philippine-literature/philippine-pantheon/
"FRL" = "First Rainbow Legend". http://www.read-legends-and-myths.com/rainbow-legend.html
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Eire |
Hellas |
Puran.a; Veda |
Be` CUMa is the wife of [DCeM, p. 32a, s.v. "Be` Chuma"] EO`GAN Inbir. |
Daughter of Poseidon, KUMo-poleia is wife of AIGAioN (DCM, p. 16a, s.v. "Aegaeon"). |
{The Skt verb /ij/ is 'to blame, to censure'.} |
[DCeM, p. 119b, s.v. "Delbcha`em"] The sequel to her adultery with Gaidiar, was Be` Cuma's sending of Art to the tower. |
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{In Monier-Williams' S-ED, /DaLBHa/ 'fraud' is referred to /kan.va/ 'abortionist'; while /GAnDHARva/ is the term for a soul seeking to incarnate as an embryo.} |
[CM&F, p. 124a] Art ('arctos, ursus, bear' [CM&F, p. 24a]) went to the tall tower containing the woman DELBcha`em {cognate with /DELPHune/?}. |
[A:B 1:6:3 ] "in the Corycian cave ..., hidden in a bearskin, and ... to guard them the she-dragon Delphyne, who was a half-bestial maiden." |
An alternative meaning (apart from 'arctos, ursus, bear') of Skt /r.ks.a/ is 'bald, bare', and, as such, is a personal name in the Veda etc. |
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This occasioned the demise of an ass-headed son of Gai[h]a. |
An ass is ridden by Jyes.t.ha (Vaidik /JAYIS.t.ha/ {cognate with /GAIHA/}), goddess with besom in her hand ("JE-S"; TVDF, p. 179). |
[DCeM, p. 84a, s.v. "Coinchenn"] The tall tower was warded by the warrioress Coin-chend ('Hound-headed'), wife of Monga`n. |
The cave wherein Dio-nusos was reared was that of Nusa daughter of [Diodoros Sikelos 3:38 -- SBAT, p. 101] Aristaios, who offered sacrifices to [DCM, s.v. "Aristaeus", p. 60b] hound-star Seirios. |
Aequivalent to /Di[h]o-nuso-/ < */-iSa-NUDHya-/ is the r.s.i named /NUDHAS/, also known as "Go-tama" in the Puran.a (PE, s.v. "Gautama 5" 6.ii). |
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Nusa is one of the numphai Dodonides : "Putting off old age, they were changed to young girls" (H:F 182). |
To Anasuya, goddesses "came in search of their spouses but found them as kids [young children]." ("LD") |
A:B = Apollodoros : Bibliotheka 1:6 http://www.theoi.com/Text/Apollodorus1.html#6
"JE-S" = "Jyestha, Elder-Sister". http://www.holladaypaganism.com/goddesses/cyclopedia/j/JYESTHA.HTM
TVDF = David R. Kinsley : Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine : The Ten Mahāvidyās. Univ of CA Pr, 1997. https://books.google.com/books?id=gkCsrfghkZ4C&pg=PA179&lpg=PA179&dq=
SBAT = Hilda M. Ransome : The Sacred Bee in Ancient Times and Folklore. George Allen & Unwin, London. 1937. https://books.google.com/books?id=CI2_2IaizbAC&pg=PA101&lpg=PA101&dq=
H:F = Hyginus : Fabulae. http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae4.html#182
[written Sept 25 2015]