Ya<qob = Arrow-Youth

<es`aw = Cougar (Mountain-Lion)

PA&M, p.

Keres

LB, p.

<ibri^

101

Woman came, carrying her water-jar, to the water-spring.

168

Woman came to the water-well.

102, 104

Big Star instructed Arrow-Youth.

170

Star of Ya<qob.

101

Buffalo-Man was admired by Yellow-Woman.

171

To <es`aw had been promised Le>ah, who disliked Ya<qob

101

Arrow-Youth is abandoned by Yellow-Woman (Koc^inako), eloping with Buffalo-Man (Mus^aic^ Huc^-tsi).

172

To Ya<qob, Le>ah spake of <es`aw

103

Yellow-Woman urinated upon calf

179

Rah.el sat upon drinking-vessels (each containing a tablet of gold – p. 178), which were worshipped by Laban [much as the golden calf was later worhipped]

102

Cougar,

179

lion

102

Wolf, et al.

188

Lion & Fox

101, 103

The army of Buffalo-Man surrounded Arrow-Youth and his brides.

191

The army of <es`aw surrounded Ya<qob and his party.

101, 103

Arrow-Youth, by shooting an arrow, slew Buffalo-Man.

191-2

Ya<qob, by shooting an arrow, slew <esaw

102

The wind blew on the back of Arrow-Youth.

192

The wind blew on the backs of the army of Ya<qob :

   

193

this was the wind which destroyed the army of Ya<qob (cf. nation-destroying wind in the Qur>an).

103

Having slain his wife, one Yellow-Woman,

172

Wishing to divorce his wife,

 

Arrow-Youth married the other Arrow-Woman; and he told his father-in-law this, gaining his father-in-law’s approval.

 

and telling his father-in-law so, his father-in-law succumbed to giving to him her sister in order to appease him.

102

Bear(, which in Zun~i myth is

196

bear which

187-8

is startled by Ugly Wild Boy)

 

is robbed of its prey by Gad

106

Yellow Woman is blind during daylight, figuratively the moon.

197

Yo^sep’s mother Rah.el is (in his dream) the moon .

102

Yellow-Woman was transferred from her imprisonment

204

To Yo^sep, Rah.el spale from her tomb, encouraging him to go with his owners, who

 

by Eagle (lightning-eagle?).

205

soon experienced a lightning-storm.

PG&M = Hamilton A. Tyler : Pueblo Gods and Myths. U of OK Pr, Norman, 1975.

LB = Louis Ginzberg : Legends of the Bible. Konecky & Konecky.