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... (The legends in the book from which these two are quoted are obviously very much edited and the last suggests some missionary tale told from Genesis to the Papuan.) Jack going up a ladder to the abode of the Giant who killed his father is an analogous incident to this New Guinea myth. In a Wyandot tale a child's father ... supernatural fact that the common birch reappears as if by magic in forests of other trees, European and American, after their destruction by fire. To the soma (and beanstalk) varieties of the Universe-tree must be assigned the vine of gold fashioned by Hephaistos and presented to the Trojans by Zeus.26 The golden vine of the Jerusalem temple ...
... " strong in magic, vaguely identified with Lapland. Events unfold as in a dream, with surrealistic irrelevance. The artlessness, the wayward charm and the bright nonsense suggest Jack and the Beanstalk, but behind them appear the fossil elements of a tale as old as the world- at least the world of man's consciousness- whose meaning and thread were ... long ago. The pristine archaic themes remain standing like monumental ruins. 98 The main sequence is built around the forging and the conquest of a great mill, called the Sampo (rune 10 deals with the forging, runes 39-42 with the stealing of the Sampo). Comparetti's studies have shown that the Sampo adventure is a distinct unit ( ...
3. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... it. There appears to be no logical sequence to it by comparison with the others mentioned above, and it would appear to fit in more easily with stories such as Jack and the Beanstalk' which seems to allude to a time when there were giants in the land. -Ed. An appreciation Sir, The "Workshop" newsletter ... an excellent idea. I will be eagerly anticipating each issue. Please note my mailing address so that I may receive the newsletter with as little delay as possible. William D. Austin Jr. S. Carolina, USA \cdrom\pubs\journals\workshop\no2\17letts.htm ...
4. The Night of the Gods Vol II [Books]
... which is also owned by the Japanese god of Fortune' Hotei. Here doubtless we also, get the real clue to the seven-league Boots and the Shoes of Swiftness of Jack the Giant-Killer. He gets them from a huge and monstrous Giant with three heads, who runs and hides himself in his large vault under ground-a fallen triune god. ... at every door the hymn of St. lago Quand nous passions le pont qui tremble, Hulas ! mon Dieu! ' This also seems to be a Jack and the Beanstalk; and this same " Grande chanson " of the pilgrims is thus given on a broad-sheet Of 1718. Quand nous fumes au font qui tremble, Bien ttonn6s De ...
5. Night of the Gods: The Pillar-Axis as Tower [Books]
... Haistig lives in an enchanted tower in mid-sea, which keeps ever turning.27 Here we even have the cosmic rotation. Up this tower the thief-climber swarms-a clear variant of Jack and the Beanstalk. . One of the earliest leading events in Irish Myth is the mythic defeat of the divine Fearbolgs by the equally divine Tuatha De Dananns, on ... plain of the Fomorian tower, Muigh-tuireth (or Magh-tuireadh = Moytura) na bh Fomorach. The Fomorians were the ocean-giants of the North, of Lochlann. Now here is a mythic plain of a mythic tower, which I theorise to be but another of the endless cosmic symbolisings of the plain of the heavens and its tower-axis of the universe ...
6. Night of the Gods: The Pillar [Books]
... who are wandering about the world come to a dense forest in which an izba or but is twirling round on a fowl's leg. The youngest, prince Ivan (our Jack) makes it revolye with the magic word Izbushka. This supplies the idea of cosmic rotation which is absent in the Japanese myth. When this Russian prince Ivan is ... these cases also the hero has to leap to the princess's arms. This leap is clearly another way of getting to heaven, besides the bridge, the pillar, the beanstalk, and so on. In the Persian Raxzat-Us-Safa 11 the gods of the people of A'ad were Samud and Samad and they made pillars of stone as high as their ...
7. Exploring The Saturn Myth [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... from scattered correspondence over several years. God's Eye In days of yore, giants stalked the earth - or they peered down upon the world of people from somewhere upstairs. Jack had to climb a beanstalk to reach the realm of the giant in a story where myth has become rationalised into folktale. The eye of Odin or Balor, a ... shining object in the sky, peered out of the clouds - watching, and all seeing. The eye temples of 3rd millenium BC Tell Brak appear to reflect the same general theme, but in a novel manner, a sequence of eyes stretching into the distance (becoming smaller and smaller). The baleful single eye of Odin flashed - ...
8. The Cosmic Double Helix [Journals] [Aeon]
... resemblance to the intertwined male and female serpents reviewed above. Equally curious plants occur elsewhere. Thus, even in the well-known fairy-tale, the stalks of the beanstalk encountered by Jack were "of an immense thickness, and had so entwined that they formed a ladder nearly like a chain [in] appearance." [102] This ladder ... bears a close resemblance to the intertwined male and female serpents reviewed above. Equally curious plants occur elsewhere. Thus, even in the well-known fairy-tale, the stalks of the beanstalk encountered by Jack were "of an immense thickness, and had so entwined that they formed a ladder nearly like a chain [in] appearance." [102 ...
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