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.

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

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