Great Gish
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Gish or Great Gish (
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Etymology
According to Richard Strand, in his Nuristâni Etymological Lexicon, it is related to the Sanskrit word gavíṣ/gaviṣá "desire for cows; eager", an epithet of Indra (with which he is functionally equivalent), in turn from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gawHíšHs, with a later shift in meaning to "war".
Cognates of Kamkata-vari giṣ/gaviṣ include Ashkun gavīṣ and Waigali geṣ. The presence of a retroflex ṣ indicates that the name was borrowed from Sanskrit.[3]
Mythology
Giwish was born of his mother who was pregnant with him for eighteen months before breaking out of her navel. According to Čanlū of Urtsun, Gish/Giz's mothers was Outhiz (also known as Utr). Imra had ordered the unwed Outhiz to be pregnant. While Outhiz was pregnant with Giz, they would have conversations with each other, and when Outhiz was eighteen months pregnant she asked Giz to come out and be born but Giz refused. Then Outhiz planted a walnut tree with eighteen branches that grew as tall as the sky. She told Giz to come out and see this magnificent tree, hearing which Giz burst out of his mothers navel. Sitting in a chair, he sewed her stomach back up with a steel needle and used a medicine to regenerate her. Outhiz now seeing that the walnut tree's branches had bent over, used iron pillars to hold them up. The tree eventually produced 720 maunds of walnuts, which along with other foods Giz used to feed his army. Once the army was fed, they attacked Sami. During the war, Giz struck his spear to a rock to transform it into a mountain, blocking the enemy from chasing them. When they reached the Bashgal river, Giz told his army to sacrifice a hornless bull, upon which a bridge appeared. When the exhausted army reached a plain, Giz struck his spear into the ground, causing sweet roots to grow. Eventually Sami and his followers will killed and his wealth plundered. After the way, Giz became known as "Laymoch". One day he went to Parun and bellowed like a bullock, he then bellowed at a pasture in Poroidur, and finally on Atser ridge. Since then he was never seen amongst the people.[4][5]
Ibbetson records that some say Gish's earthly name was Yazid. He also mentions that Gish is stated to have killed
Gish's consort was Sanjü, daughter of the god Sanu. Sanu was a Muslim who tried to convert the Kafirs to Islam, but was killed by Gish who proceeded to play polo with his head.[6]
In popular culture
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See also
References
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1962). "gaviṣá". A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan languages. Oxford University Press.
- ^ ISBN 978-81-206-0505-3.
- ^ Halfmann, Jakob. "Nuristani Theonyms in Light of Historical Phonology". In: 6th Indo-European Research Colloquium, 2022. [DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.31805.54244]; www.researchgate.net/publication/359109254_Nuristani_Theonyms_in_Light_of_Historical_Phonology
- ^ Jettmar, Karl (1968). The Religions of the Hindukush. Translated by Schuyler, Jones. Ariss & Phillips. p. 65.
- ^ Hussam-ul-Mulk, Shahzada (1974). Jettmar, Karl; Edelberg, Lennart (eds.). The Cosmology of the Red Kafirs. Franz Steiner Verlag. pp. 26–27.
- ^ Jettmar 1968, p. 65.
External links
- Strand, Richard F. (2012). "Nuristâni Etymological Lexicon".