North American Coyote = Perseus
Nas^lah = Dionusos
Coyote et al. |
Perseus et al. |
[Ponka] "Coyote ... leaving just one blunt tooth" (HNAM, p. 81) in one of 3 women. |
The 3 Graiai "had a single eye and tooth among the three of them." (GM 73.g) Perseus "snatched the eye and tooth". |
[Okanogan] "Coyote created Mount Chopaka and two other peaks of the Okanogan Highlands from two young warriors." (HNAM, p. 78) |
Perseus encountered "Atlas ... whom ... he ... transformed ... into a mountain." (GM 73.i) |
[Klikitat] "Coyote cut pieces from Nashlah’s heart and roasted them." |
Athene "rescuing Zagreus’s heart" (GM 30.b). [Zagreus was the former incarnation of Dionusos.] |
Coyote transformed (HNAM, p. 82) Nas^lah into a whirlpool (whereinto persons would drown in a pool of the Columbia river. |
Perseus drowned (CDCM, p. 343b) Dionusos in the lake at Lerne. Dionusos descended (GM 27.k), via Lerne, into Tartaros. |
[White Mountain Apac^e] "He did indeed cook his corn first, ate some, and then planted the rest." (HNAM, p. 79) |
Dionusos protected (CDCM, p. 65a) a heroine (Ino) when she was about to be slain on account of her having induced the sowing of parched corn. |
This corn had originated from Turkey’s shaking its feathers; |
Ino became (GM 70.h) Leuko-thea the seamew (GM 170.y). {cf. the dove bringing, across the sea, |
whereas juniper-berries [a green fruit] originated from |
[Athene’s?] olives [a green fruit] to the ark of Noh. (B-Re>s^it 8:11).} |
Bear’s shaking its fur (HNAM, p. 78). |
He to whom Leuko-thea came, namely Odusseus, had a sister named (CDCM, p. 83a) Kallisto : Kallisto became (CDCM, p. 82b) a bear. |
[Klamat] "He changed course of the Klamath River ... upstream on one side and downstream on the other." (HNAM, p. 78) |
Perseus killed (CDCM, p. 343b) Ariadne who had enabled other hero (Theseus) to return (from the Labyrinth) via the identical path wherethrough he had entered it. |
{With Dionusos’s descent into the pool at Lerne, cf. the descent by Aztec shamanesses into the netherworld via a whirlpool (DE&S, p. 69).}
HNAM = Dawn E. Bastian & Judy K. Mitchell : Handbook of Native American Mythology. Oxford U Pr, 2004.
GM = Robert Graves : The Greek Myths. 1955.
CDCM = Pierre Grimal (transl. by A. R. Maxwell-Hyslop, ed. by Stephen Kershaw) : A Concise Dictionary of Classical Mythology. Basil Blackwell, 1990.
DE&S = Timothy J. Knab : The Dialogue of Earth and Sky. U of AZ Pr, Tucson, 2004.