Aztec---------------------------Maluti---------------------------Cymry
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Cipactli bit the foot of Tezcatli-poca. |
Something caught the foot of Quuisi (p. 33). |
The maiden Goewin held the foot of Math (p. 413). |
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In the Eca-tonatiuh, the people became monkeys. |
People were transformed into cogn (baboons). |
Gilvethwy was transformed successively into a buck (p. 419), a boar (p. 420), and a wolf. |
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Snake as name-glyph of wind-god. |
After snake-people sought to produce a sand-storm, |
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deluge "rose about the mountains" of the snake-people (p. 32). |
"There is a tradition that an ancient British town, situated near this place, called Caer Arianrhod, was swallowed up by the sea" (note to p. 422). http://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/mab/mab27.htm |
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Cogaz cut sticks for making bows; but a little girl re-directed the song. |
Out of sticks, leather was made for the woman Arianrhod (p. 423). |
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Cagn shot eagle (p. 33). |
Gronw Pebyr shot Llew Llaw Gyffes, who thereupon became an eagle (p. 429). |
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Cagn had become eland, as ostensible prey but |
Llew Llaw Gyffes produced out of own body food for sow (p. 430). |
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Atlatl-darts shot at 2-headed deer missed it. |
functioning as decoy; for spears hurled at it missed it. |
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Although reduced to bones, Cagn "went stumbling home" (pp. 33-34). |
Llew Llaw Gyffes became "piteous sight, for he was nothing but skin and bone." (p. 431) |
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After Xiuh-nel fled into (and through) a bonfire in order to evade her, |
After she had thrown him into a bonfire, |
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the goddess Itz-papalotl pursued Xiuh-nel into (and through) a bonfire. |
the woman Cgorionsi was hurled into bonfire by Cagn (p. 33). |
The woman Blodeuwedd, fleeing from Llew Llaw Gyffes, fell into a lake and thereupon became an owl (p. 432). |
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Dwarves accomany Tlaloc (as depicted in Codex Borgia). |
The dobbetjes (thorns) were dwarves. |
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Mabinogion |
With resuscitation of Cagn after his flesh was devoured by emmets (p. 33), cf. the Murnin myth (of Kunapipi) of resucitation of corpses by biting emmets.
J. M. Orpen: "Glimpse into the Mythology of the Maluti Bushmen." THE CAPE MONTHLY MAGAZINE, 1874. Reprinted in:- FOLKLORE, 1919, pp. 143-152; and in:- Barbara C. Sproul: Primal Myths. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1979. pp. 31-34.
Lady Charlotte Guest (transl.): The Mabinogion, from the Red Book of Hergest. London:
Bernard Quaritch, 1877. http://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/mab/mab26.htm