Bird Gods
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Before he sets out to wade across Lake Peipus, lazy giant, Kalev's boy takes a linnupete. Linnu, lind, means bird, pete deceit; linnupete means the bird deceiver; something that defeats the magic of birds.
Wiedemann explains this word as : " Break^t, which is taken, through superstition, in spring 117 Bird Gods in Ancient Europe before going out, in order not to hear the cuckoo on an empty stomach/' Perhaps this testifies more powerfully than the legends of cuckoo heroes to the vast background ...of belief in bird magic and bird prophecy, a faint sketch of which I am trying to trace.
The Egyptians, too, had their stories which point to the cuckoo as their visible starting- poinL There is that of Osiris and his sister I sis, whose son was the hawk Horus. Osiris is cut to pieces like Lemminkainen, and his scattered limbs are found^ and collected by his sister-wife, as Lemminkainen's by his mother.
** It is this, the beneficent, the avenger of her brother " says the Hymn to Osiris trans- lated from the stele in the Bibliotheque Na- tionale by M.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Before he sets out to wade across Lake Peipus, lazy giant, Kalev's boy takes a linnupete. Linnu, lind, means bird, pete deceit; linnupete means the bird deceiver; something that defeats the magic of birds.
Wiedemann explains this word as : " Break^t, which is taken, through superstition, in spring 117 Bird Gods in Ancient Europe before going out, in order not to hear the cuckoo on an empty stomach/' Perhaps this testifies more powerfully than the legends of cuckoo heroes to the vast background ...of belief in bird magic and bird prophecy, a faint sketch of which I am trying to trace.
The Egyptians, too, had their stories which point to the cuckoo as their visible starting- poinL There is that of Osiris and his sister I sis, whose son was the hawk Horus. Osiris is cut to pieces like Lemminkainen, and his scattered limbs are found^ and collected by his sister-wife, as Lemminkainen's by his mother.
** It is this, the beneficent, the avenger of her brother " says the Hymn to Osiris trans- lated from the stele in the Bibliotheque Na- tionale by M.
What to read after Bird Gods?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Charles De Kay to read onlineMoreLess
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