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Old version
Storm-god and Dragon clash.
Dragon defeated Storm-god.
Storm-god sought help from all gods Inaras (a goddess, helping Stormgod) encounters Hupasiyas, a mortal. He slept with her.
Inaras took Hupasiyas and hid him in ambush; lnaras lured the Dragon up from his lair; the Dragon came with his children; they drank every jar dry; they can no longer descend to their lair; Hupasiyas carne and bound the Dragon with a rope. The Storm-god came and killed the Dragon.
Inaras instructs Hupasiyas: "Thou shalt not look out of the window!"; [but he] opened the window, saw his wife & children; Inaras killed him.
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New version
The Dragon defeated Storm-god, and took his heart and eyes from him
The Storm-god sought to revenge himself. He took the daughter of a poor man and begat a son. When the son grew up, he married the daughter of Dragon. The Storm-god instructed his son; so the son asked his wife and [her father] the Dragon for the heart, and they gave it to him; he asked for the eyes and they gave him those, too. So Storm-god got back his heart and eyes.
Storm-god again joined battle with Dragon, and when he was nearly victorious... The son of the Storm-god shouted, "Spare me not!"; so the Storm-god killed his son along with the Dragon.
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sequence of motifemes (standard combat tale)
(1) the champion fights the adversary;
(2) adversary defeats the champion; (3) the champion is rendered helpless; (4) a mortal helper is provided;
(5) the helper beguiles the adversary;
(6) the adversary loses his advantage;
(7) champion returns to fight, defeats the adversary;
(8) the mortal helper is killed too. |
Apollodorus’ version of the Typhon myth:
(1) Zeus and Typhon do battle;
(2) Typhon defeats Zeus;
(3) Typhon takes away Zeus' weapon and his sinews, which are guarded by a dragoness in a cave; [no # 4, mortal helper?]
(5) Hermes and Aegipan steal the sinews and (6) fit them again to Zeus;
(7) Zeus, resuming action, defeats Typhon |