Cynic philosopher St. Christopher = Tailika-pada the maha-siddha
Anatolian & Hispanic Cynic philosophers
The “dog-faced” St. Christopher (of Lukia ‘wolf-land’) is suggested [COChM, Apr 2002] to have been an exemplar of Cynic philosophy. |
Isidoros the encyclopaeist, in Hispania, had as his namesake a Cynic philosopher. |
“St. Christopher as a giant twenty-four feet high” [HEH, vol. 1, cap. 1] (= 16 cubits) |
cf. 16 varieties of outcastes according to the Hevajra Tantra |
Christopher “called from the error of paynims forty-eight thousand men” [GL]. |
cf. 48 C^>an (Zen) koan-s |
Shot by 40 archers, “the arrows hung in the air about, nigh him, without touching.” [GL] |
cf. North American Indian arrow-ladder (arrow-chain) to heaven |
COChM = Celtic Orthodox Christian Monthly http://celticchristianity.org/COCQ/COCM200204.html
HEH = Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange : History of English Humour. London : Hurst & Blackett Publ., 1878. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18300/18300-8.txt
GL = Golden Legend http://www.catholicforum.com/saints/golden234.htm
original purple eucharist
the eye-iris of the blue wolfhound is of “grape colour” [IW#b], suggesting this as the source of the idea of eucharist-wine – but |
inasmuch as the original prototype of the carrot is purple [MMC] (still the praeferred variety in Afghanistan [HC]), it may be conjectured that the eucharist-“wine” was originally carrot-juice. |
IW#b = http://www.irishwolfhounds.org/about.htm#blue
MMC = http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/maroon.html
HC = http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/history.html
substitution of red-carrot eucharist for the original purple-carrot eucharist
Christopher was hound-headed (should be specifically : wolfhound-headed) |
“wolfhound” (as blood-“red carrot”) with fish of Tailika [Buddhist Diet 1.A] |
“St. Christopher ... caught a dory and impressed the spots with his thumb and finger, ... which is yellow with metallic reflections” [“Dory”], the metallic coin of “tribute-money” [AB, p. 256]. |
Tailika fried a fish alive [MB, p. 253] – cf. vision of “large fish” accompanied by “large dog” [Swirling Disks] |
Christopher carried Christ-child (should be : “Son of Man” = [Euangelion of Ioannes 3:14] serpent in wilderness = [ibid. 3:15] aeternal life = [Epistle to the Romans 6:23] free gift = Dosi-theos the Anti-Christ) across river. |
Tailika carried Naga-arjuna (‘dragon’) across river [Tilopa]. |
Christopher “found his staff like a palmier bearing flowers, leaves and dates.” (GL) |
Tailika levitated to the height of a royal palm-tree; |
Buddhist Diet = http://www.yogichen.org/cw/cw43/bk143.html
“Dory” = British Cyclopaedia of the Arts, s.v. “Dory”. http://books.google.com/books?id=9SdkAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA325&lpg=PA325&dq=
AB = William Bingley : Animal Biography, or, Popular Zoology. 1820. http://books.google.com/books?id=CzMTAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA256&lpg=PA256&dq
MB = Vessantara : Meeting the Buddhas. Windhorse Publications, 1993. http://books.google.com/books?id=-O3Khal6UMcC&pg=PA253&lpg=PA253&dq=
Swirling Disks (cf. coins?) = http://www.yogichen.org/gurulin/efiles/p1028.html
Tilopa = http://www.kagyu.org/kagyulineage/lineage/kag02.php
Orphic connections
Orpheus’s spouse Euru-dike began to ascend from amongst the dead [GM 28.c] – there being 9 Bon (and likewise 9 Aztec) netherworlds. |
his spouse Matongha levitated to the altitude of 9 royal palm-trees [Tilopa]. |
Orpheus caused trees to dance [GM 28.a]. |
Tailika changed trees into illusory soldiers [Tilopa]. cf. the trees of Birnam Wood seen as soldiers by MacBeth [Act 5, Scene 5] -- |
Having slain Orpheus, the Mainades attempted, in vain, to wash themselves of blood-guilt [GM 28.e]. |
Lady MacBeth heard how from her husband [Act 2, Scene 2] how he attempted, in vain, to wash hands of blood-guilt. |
“The Thracian men ... tattoo their wives as a warning against the murder” of Orpheus [GM 28.f]. |
Pictish & antient Briton tattooing blue, with (according to Plinius -- PW) “plantain” (plantains and bananas becoming blue when boiled for a long while). At Hierapolis (Bambuke = Mabuq), “all tattoo themselves” (SG 59 – p. 88), with fish-scale pattern in Nubia (SG, n. 71) -- like unto fish-scale armor in antient state of Wu, China. |
brazen serpent lifted by Mos^eh [B-Midbar 21:9] |
“dragon mating ... turned into bronze” [Wind Channel] {this is Taoist} |
GM = Robert Graves : The Greek Myths. 1955.
MacBeth 5:5 = http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1647&chapter=50271&layout=html&Itemid=27
MacBeth 2:2 = http://www.clicknotes.com/macbeth/T22.html
PW = http://www.cyberpict.net/sgathan/essays/woad.htm
SG = Loukianos (tr. by Herbert A. Strong and John Garstang) : Syrian Goddess. 1913. http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/luc/tsg/tsg07.htm#an_59
SG n. = http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/luc/tsg/tsg07.htm#fn_146
Wind Channel = http://www.yogichen.org/gurulin/efiles/p0681.html