april 15, 2020 0 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (28): The eagle on the tree and the snake beneath The Captain Black – Eagle X Snake (foto ilmarinaio.wordpress) In the Gilgamesh epos, in a text called [...]
maart 31, 2020 1 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (27): The Herculean Tasks and the Magic Flight [cf ATU 313B] (2) The story of the ‘Magic Flight’ has much resemblance with the Jason myth. Jason had to go and get the [...]
januari 2, 2020 2 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (22): The Magic Horse | ATU 531 (4) + PDF That Johanan understood the language of animals is a motif also present in a Greek version (of ATU 531), [...]
december 12, 2019 0 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (21): The Magic Horse | ATU 531 (3) A quite different version of the story of the golden feather has been collected from Jews in the USSR, [...]
september 22, 2019 4 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (16): The Phoenix The phoenix is lucky, may you be too. Graffiti from Pompeii Butterworth & Laurence 2006, p. 341 In The [...]
september 9, 2019 4 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (15): Fabulous Birds & The Bet with King Solomon Clouston treats in a short space the bird Roc (Rûkh), Garuda of the Hindus, Eorosh of the Zend, Simurgh of [...]
augustus 24, 2019 6 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (14): The Eagle and the Snake in AT 301 (conclusion) In the Midrash Kohelet there is a story about a man returning from Babylon, who sees two birds quarrel, one [...]
augustus 12, 2019 2 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (13): The Eagle and the Snake in ATU 301 (the wonderful cure of the hero) The episode with the eagle is also a part of the Kirgizian epos Er Töstük, reviewed by Karl Reichl in his [...]
juli 29, 2019 2 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws (12): The Eagle and the Snake in ATU 301 The scene of the hero in the bird’s nest is also a feature of versions of ATU 301. In the versions we saw [...]
mei 22, 2019 7 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws | Myth and Folktale (8): The Flight on the Eagle in ATU 301 The story told by Konon is part of a series of stories Panzer collected for his research into the folktale [...]