v.:p.

term

meaning

2:343b

salf (pl. suluf)

pera (bag), marsupium (pouch) {cf. "bag of winds" belonging to Aiolos; or rather, the "bag" whereinto Daidalos thrust the corpse of his 12-year-old murder-victim Talos (GM 92.b)}

sulaf (pl. silfan, sulfan)

pullus perdicis (partridge chick) {Talos was son of Daidalos’ sister Perdix ‘Partridge’}

2:344a

sulfah (pl. sulaf) {< Lat. /sulcus/ ‘furrow’?}

arvi pars occata (harrowed furrow)

Since Talos was inventor of the saw (serra), he may be aequated with the [Norse tomb-sawyer] Sinfjo,tli; and Daidalos with Sigmund.

Grar ‘Saw (Serra)’ is the city frequented by S^ims^o^n.

Belinda’s sylphs in The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope are derived from Montfaucon de Villars : Le Comte de Gabalis. 1670. (Jackson I. : "Shakerly Marmion", p. 265, in :- MODERN LANGUAGE NOTES, Vol. 72 – 1957 http://www.jstor.org/pss/3043100 )

A lock of hair from S^ims^o^n was stolen, at instigation by the woman Dlilah ‘Lock of Hair’.

"Pope followed rabbinical ideas about how women longed to mate with sylphs ... . ... "They were not angels," De Villars states, "but sylphs – sylphs who needed such contact to make themselves immortal."" (Jonathan Gross : The Sylph. Northwestern U Pr, 2007. p. xlii http://books.google.com/books?id=MFHnvBqSTh4C&pg=PR42&lpg=PR42&dq=Belinda+sylph&source=bl&ots=wOLO4YH1-f&sig=uvJZCHuC7bKKzpZ6O1OBAGNDAgc&hl=en&ei=uH5ZSoLCBJCftgfDhJHdCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10 )

"Humans long to mate with sylphs, according to the Comte de Gabalis, because they want to live forever". (ibid., p. xliv)

In the play entitled The Sylph (1743), by Germain-Franc,ois Poullain of Saint-Foix, a marquis passed himself off to Julia as Ziblis, "one of those aerial beings which she so very desirous of getting acquainted with." (ibid., p. xlv) {The name /ZiBLis/ may be derived from the name of the 4^th heaven, /ZaBuL/ ‘Mansion’ : "if it were not so, I would have told you" about Buggaboe (loc. cit.) = bugaboo of the /BaGoBO/ tribe in the Philippines.}

"During the night, in dreams, which he contrives to excite, he takes care to be the principal object of her ideas -- ... ’tis her sylph that causes her those pleasing reveries". (ibid., p. xlvi)

The Rape of the Lock was written in 1717 (http://www.rps.psu.edu/edchoice/lesson91.html ) – the same year as that wherein the Grand Masonic Lodge was founded in London (suggesting its having been written to commemorate that event).

Is The Rape of the Lock also commemorative of the naming of Coma Berenices after the Aiguptian queen?

"the card-game, Ombre, which has been confidently imitated from the ‘Scacchia of Vida’ ..., but

cf. card-people in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland

Clarissa is the one who lends the scissors to the baron to commence the nefarious deed." http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Tribute-to-The-Rape-of-the-Lock&id=155831

cf. scissors-wielding goddess C^hinna-masta.