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Huli Jing

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.

Hina

Culture

  • 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

Heimdallr

Culture

  • 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