Bygmester
- Da bygmester: builder; master builder; prime contractor
- Bygmester Solness: The Master Builder, a play by Henrik Ibsen; in the final scene, the eponymous character Halvard Solness climbs to the top of a tower, but falls to his death
- big mister (AND: "pygmy")
- G Bürgermeister: mayor (cf. the burgomaster in whale's "frankenstein" movies)
- bug-master (cf. Earwicker; insect/incest)
- M.Engl. bugge: a "frightening spectre" (cf. boggart, bogeyman)
- böögg: puppet being burned in the celebration of Zurich "Sechseläuten" (cf. "Mester Begge (...) saxonlootie" p. 58)
004.18 - 005.04
After the preludial nature of the first four paragraphs, the fifth paragraph represents a second beginning. Compare this to the Book of Genesis, which also has two beginnings (Gen 1:1 and Gen 2:4), and to Ulysses, which likewise has two beginnings (Telemachus and Calypso).
Parallels are drawn between Finnegan's personal history and the history of the Israelites, just as the Book of Invasions (a medieval corpus Irish myth and pseudo-history) models the prehistory of the Irish race on the Biblical history of the Israelites. The Biblical overtones are underscored by the allusions to the first seven books of the Old Testament (the Heptateuch): Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua and Judges. Finnegan is compared to Moses, both making large bodies of liquid disappear! Both have speech impediments (Exodus 4:10).
