9 september 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 [...]
24 augustus 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 [...]
12 augustus 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 [...]
29 juli 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 [...]
11 juli 2019 4 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws | Myth and Folktale (11): The Bird-Nester Lévi-Strauss calls his first paragraph ‘The Bird-Nester’s Aria’ (aria, because he compares his opus [...]
24 juni 2019 5 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws | Myth and Folktale (10): Return, recognition and revenge Because of the threat of his treacherous brothers the hero in ATU 301 after his return from the underworld [...]
11 juni 2019 4 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws | Myth and Folktale (9): Stuck on an island Being stuck on an island and rescued by a bird is an important part of the ‘Grateful Dead’-theme, grouped [...]
22 mei 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 [...]
13 mei 2019 7 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws | Myth and Folktale (7): The rescue by the vultures The rescue by birds, who take the body of our trapped hero for bait, can already be seen in the 35th story of [...]
7 mei 2019 5 Cor Hendriks – The Macaws | Myth and Folktale (6): Alexander and the Valley of Diamonds A story from the Arabian writer Meisami (12th c.) connects Alexander with the story of the jewel-mountain. [...]