Mythology http://www.scarcliff.com/mythology Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:58:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Huli Jing http://www.scarcliff.com/mythology/2009/09/huli-jing/ http://www.scarcliff.com/mythology/2009/09/huli-jing/#comments Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:58:01 +0000 Brent http://www.scarcliff.com/mythology/?p=10 Continue reading →]]> Culture

  • Chinese

Bynames

  • Hu ‘fox’ | Chinese
  • Hujing ‘fox spirit, exquisite fox, seductress, slut’ | Chinese
  • Huxian ‘immortal fox’ | Chinese
  • Kitsune ‘fox, fox spirit’ | Japanese

References

  • Chan, Leo Tak-Hong. The Discourse on Foxes and Ghosts. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998.
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  • Polynesian

Bynames

  • Ina
  • Sina

Characteristics

  • Moon
  • Tapa
  • Daughter of Tagaloa | Samoa
  • Sister of M?ui |Aotearoa
  • Mother of M?ui | Hawai’i

Stories

  • Heimdall is the son of nine mothers

Comparisons

Conjectures

References

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  • Old Norse

Bynames

  • Heimdallr
  • Heimdall (Anglo-Norse)
  • Hvítastr-Ása ‘the whitest of the Aesir’

Stories

  • Heimdall is the son of nine mothers

Comparisons

  • Compare Heimdall to Proteus in his role as the herdsman of Poseidon’s seals
  • Compare Heimdall to Dylan
  • The ram Aries led Dionysus to water
  • Compare Heimdall’s loss of an ear to Odhinn’s loss of an eye
  • Mardöll
  • PIE *pleu ‘flow’ to PIE *pleus ‘fleece’

Conjectures

  • Is Heimdall the incestuous son of Freyja and Freyr?

References

  • Georges Dumézil
  • William Sayers
  • E. O. G. Turville-Petre
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  • Bruce Lincoln
  • C. Scott Littleton
  • Calvert Watkins
  • Claude Sterckx
  • Donald Ward
  • Jaan Puhvel
  • Jean Haudry
  • Miriam Robbins Dexter
  • Nick Allen
  • Stépan Ahyan
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