"A Book of Maya Incantations"
(plants, animals, & deities as uayasba "symbol")
spell # |
MS. page |
plant |
animal |
deity |
1 |
4-12 |
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4 |
Colop-u-uic^- "snatcher-of-the-eye-" {cf. Kemetian SWTH, the divine aardvark who snatched out the eye of H.R} |
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5 & 8 |
max-cal "monkey-throat" |
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6 |
tancas-c^e "seizure--tree, i.e. Zanthoxylum" |
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7 |
c^ab "anteater = aardvark" |
p.o Ix Hun-pudzub- "lady needle, remover-of-[blood]" |
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8 |
p.o Kan-kinic^ "yellow sun-eye"; p.o Ix Hun-tah-acay; p.o Ix Co-tancas-ek "lady mad-seizure-star" |
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9 |
p.o the father of Can-yah-ual-kak "vigorous-enemy-of-fire" |
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9-11 |
Ix Ma-uay "lady detrimental-one" |
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10 |
c^iic^ii bird; sipip bird |
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2 |
15-25 |
ah oc "traveler" |
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19 |
Ix Ho-can-be "lady 4 crossroads", Yum Ho-can-lub "father 4 resting-places"; p.o Bolon C^oc^ "9 releases" |
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22 |
4 Bacab-s vomiting {cf. Kronos vomiting?}; p.o Ix Kuknab "lady waterlily-sprout", o.o Ix Ti-ho-tzab "lady at-the-five-rattles" |
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23 |
Uuc-c^an-c^uc, Ah Ik; p.o Ah Bolon Yocte "he of many strides": by the "hair-tail of his head ... he was bound" {cf. "a man ... bound together by his own long hair" (CM&S, p. xiii)} |
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24 |
Ix Tah-kab, U-lam-tzin {cf. <arabi^ >ulema} = Ah Olon-tzin |
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25 |
Kauil "of food" (:24 falling) at p.o Uaxac-yo-kauil "eight heart-of-food" {cf. food of <es`aw} |
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3 |
25-30 |
mo "macaw" {= MOhO, Puno, Peru`} |
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26 |
koko bird (insolent) |
{Ma`saw "lost his humility", and so became "the deity of death and the underworld." BH, p. 21} |
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27 |
ek-acal; punab tree |
pule bird |
son of Kinich Kak-mo "sun-eye fire-macaw": red were the ringed sun-and-moon when he was born {cf. signet-ring (GM 98.i) of Minos, who became (GM 88.i) a judge of the dead in the netherworld.} |
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28 |
lukub-tok "flint-remover", sihom-takin "gold soapberry tree" {soap for bath taken by Minos ?} |
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29 |
kanc^e "seat, i.e. button mangrove" |
"wing, with which he cuts it" {cf. Bon mythic feather which cutteth iron} |
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4 |
30-32 |
nicte "plumeria" |
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30 |
on "aguacate = avacado" |
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31 |
dzunun-nicte "hummingbird-plumeria"; bacal-c^e "cob-midget, i.e. Bourreria" |
[the hummingbird is the midget among birds] |
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31-32 |
c^ic^ibe "Sida" |
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32 |
Yum-ac-uinic-ik "father dwarf-man wind" {cf. Vamana the midget} who "runs" {as Vamana pitted the ground with his walking} |
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5 |
32-44 |
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33 |
Ix PaClah-actun {cf. <ibri^ P<ulltay}, offspring of Ix Yal-HoPoC^ {cf. Latin goddess Libera: <ibri^ H.uPS^ah "liberty"}, o.o Ix Yal-sik-c^e |
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33 & 36 |
c^iuoh-xiu "tarantula-plant" [remedy for gangrene] |
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34 |
Ix UooH {Samskr.ta goddess VaC} |
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34-36 & 38 |
c^iuoh "tarantula" |
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36 |
put "papaya" |
{cf. Latin puta "whore" (i.e., liberated woman)} |
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37 & 40 & 42 |
xacat-be "road-jumper, i.e. grasshopper" |
{to the Npili^m, the people "seemed like grasshoppers", B-MDBR 13:33} |
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38 |
tabcan "mangrove"; yaxum tree |
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41 |
xan "guano-palm" of uohil "heart-of-palm" |
Ix Cucul-patz-kin "lady sunstroke"? |
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42 |
Kolop-u-uic^- "wounder-of-the-eye-" {cf. Odusseus, who wounded the eye of Poluphemos, GM 197.d} |
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43 |
Som-c^>in "violent hurling" {cf. violent hurling of boulder by Poluphemos at ship of Odusseus, GM 197.f} |
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6 |
44-46 |
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45 |
c^ac-dzidzib-kik "red cardinal blood", ah c^uy "kite" |
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46 |
cuyil "moth-caterpillar" |
{(in Hawai>ian lore) a "huge caterpillar" guardeth roadway for souls of the dead, HM, p. 157; in order to spare humans from dying, Maui became a caterpillar (in Maori myth)} |
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7 |
46-61 |
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47-48 & 50-51 & 54 & 56 & 60 |
kantanen (caterpillar covered with feathers -- cf. SShCh 13:16 "Tree grubs ... sprout feathers and change into butteflies.") |
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49 |
Pauahtun praesiding over "the door of the house" {cf. Vis.n.u as janitor in Atharva Veda} |
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57 |
"yellow moon" associated with "drunkard" {cf. Aztec} |
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61 |
8,000 each of 3 species of birds |
KABaL "potter's wheel" {cf. <arabic KABiL (brother of Habil)} at (60) thutz of neck |
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8 |
64-82 |
sian "lineage" (recounted in 69), not "incantation" |
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64-65 & 76-77 |
LOTHic "ruffle" {cf. LO^T. (in Br>s^yt)} at (65) KoBa {cf. Ku^B} |
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66 |
speechless dzi vein {cf. Samskr.ta muni, nad.i} |
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66-67 |
hunpedzkin, a poisonous lizard (gila monster?) |
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68 |
x-huytok bird |
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69 |
coco-can trogon (= 76-77 coco-c^an trogon); coc-ye bird |
Coc Bal Tun, offspring of Ix Uoh, o.o Ix Culum-can, o.o Ix Co-pauah-ek, o.o Ix Hun-MeKlah {cf. Mi^Kal (in Qur>an, etc.)} "lady unique-all-embracer" {cf. naks.atra As`les.a "embracer"}, o.o Ix Hun-sipit-muyal "lady cloud-releaser", o.o Ix Oc-tun-xix "lady cement-pillar"? |
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75 |
coh "puma" |
Tix-pic-dzacab "lady-8,000-generations", Tix-ho-dzacab "lady-five-generations" |
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76 & 79 |
"beaten water" cf. "churning of the sea" in Puran.a-s |
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77 |
falling to p.o. Tan-sacal-c^akan "middle of the white savannah" {cf. Paraguayan Indian belief, the souls of the dead wander in the savannah} |
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78 |
pul "guava" |
arrive at p.o Ah Som-pul "sudden thrower" {cf. Solomon Islands belief, the dead go to be catapulted into sky} |
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81 |
C^ac-uayab-cat "great daemon-jar" {cf. West African emplacement of souls of the dead into containers} |
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9 |
82-83 |
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82 |
ix KOC^ {cf. COCHa-bamba, Bolivia} |
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10 |
83-90 |
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83 |
Ix Hun-LaH-dzib "lady unique-writing", Ix Hun-LaH-uoh "lady unique-glyph" {cf. Saras-vati of LiKHita "writing"}, Ix Hun-dzalab- "lady unique-sigillum-" {cf. mudra} |
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83 & 89 |
HuH "iguana" {cf. Kemetian H.H. gods} |
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86 |
ic^e-uinic wasp |
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89 |
hunkuk "eagle" of flint (cf. Maya flint-fledged eagle), of claw {cf. talon of eagle shot off by Kr.s`anu, according to Veda, claw becoming wedge (as if cuneiform)} |
HATZAB"divider" {cf. <ibri^ H.AS.AB "to carve" (scill., glyphs?)} |
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11 |
90-95 |
C^IBaL {cf. <ibri^ S^IBBoLet} |
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90 & 97 |
ppoppox "nettle" |
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91 |
10 covers on bed {cf. Polynesian 10 skies} |
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94 |
balam-caan "leopard sky" {cf. Tezcatli-poca as leopard-constellation in sky}; green cover ("green flash" of setting caelestial bodies?) |
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12 |
95-100 |
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96 |
ek-pip-pam "hawk toucan" |
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97 |
tzaah "prickley tree"; YA {cf. <ibri^ YAhh} "sapote" |
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13 |
100 |
HOBoNte [cf. HOBNil the Bacab] |
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14 |
101-106 |
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104 |
nix-c^e "inclined-tree, i.e. sea-grape Coccoloba uvifera" |
dzidzib bird; ppocinbe bird |
[cf. Chinese inclined tree, the Fu-san, described in CM&S] |
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15 |
106-113 |
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107 |
Uuc-ne-c^apat "7-tailed-centipede", offspring of Ix C^ante-kak Lady notable-fire", o.o Ix Ho, o.o Ix Kantanen-u "lady yellow-moon-insect"?, o.o Ix Hom-ti-tzab "she who-sinketh-into-the-rattles-constellation", o.o Ix Culum-c^acah, o.o Ix Meklah; place of Ti-cah-puc "at-the-dwelling-on-the-hill" (or, "-of-the-mouse"?), p.o Ix Moson-cuc "lady whirling-squirrel"?, p.o Ix U-sihnal "lady moon-birth"? |
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108 |
place of Ix Cocoyol-cab "lady abstinence", Palum-cit |
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109 |
Ix C^ante-oyoc^ "lady notable-pauper" ... Ix Hom-ti-muyal "she who-sinketh-into-the-cloud", offspring of Ix Kak-tac^el, o.o Ix Culum-c^acah, o.o Ix Meklah-oyte "she who embraceth the dismayed one", o.o Ix Meklah-u-sip ... lady of the sea, o.o her who sitteth in the mud, o.o her who emergeth from the sand |
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110 |
Ix C^i-ticil Uaclahun "lady fringe-16"; Ix MA-UL {= MAULe river, Chile} "lady not-arrive" |
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111 |
Ix Kin-sutnal "lady sun-turneth-back"; place of Ix C^ac-lah-yeeb "lady sun-faced-dew" |
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113 |
puhi "rush", nab "waterlily", halal "reed" |
C^ac-uayab-xoc "red-ominous-shark"; C^ac-mumul-ain "red-muddy-crocodile" (PMT, p. 166) {bamboo associated with shark, CG 4:129-131} |
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16 |
114-115 |
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115 |
ixim-ha "maize-water, i.e. duckweed" |
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17 |
115-122 |
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116 |
Ah Uuc-yol-sip "lord seven-heart-of-Sip"; Ix Hun-tipplah-can "lady unique-pulsating-sky" |
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118 |
Hun-sip- "unique Sip-" |
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119 |
culix; uixum |
C^ac-ek "great (or, "red") star" {cf. red star of Ares} |
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120 |
Ix Kan-kinib- "lady yellow-heater-"; pack-net {cf. bronze net wherein Ares (together with Aphrodite, goddess of the great planet Venus) was entangled, GM 18.b} |
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18 |
122-126 |
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123 |
uidzil; uixum; buhum snake {cf. boh.an "assayed (of metal)" with "serpent of brass" of B-MDBR 21:9} |
UBa Ahau {= UBinas, Moquegua, Peru`; cf. Ubbe in Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus}; Hun-yah-ual-Anom "unique enemy-of-humanity" who "would be beheaded by his mother" {cf. Pentheus, who was beheaded by his own mother Agaue, GM 27.f} |
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124 |
ic^-can (? ic^>-can "claw-shoot", i.e. Solanum) |
Ix Catil-ahau "lady mistress of the water-jars"?; Ix Madzil-ahau; Ix Pokol-pic; place of Kin-patax-uinic "fevering-pimple-man"; p.o Bolon-hobon "many-colors (of painter)"; p.o white Som-pul-acat "suddenly-cast-seed-capsule" |
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125 |
oyster |
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19 |
126-128 |
kanc^>ah snake |
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127 |
"coiled" {cf. Chinese Pan-gu "coiled antiquity"} |
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20 |
128-130 |
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129 |
Anom "humanity" the 1st man |
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130 |
= ah thalcunah {cf. <ibri^ t.al "dew", to which mankind is likened in MYKH 5:7} "setter-up" |
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21 |
130-133 |
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131 |
Cum Ahau "seated lord" {cf. Theseus seated in chair of Hades ?} |
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132 |
white ah ii hawk |
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133 |
can-c^ac-c^e shrub; can-tiplah (? can-tipplah) of wine |
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22 |
134-140 |
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134 |
dzuto [= dzubto] |
Ix Hun-[h]acay-kik "lady unique-slippery-blood"?, o.o Ix Hun-[h]acay-olom "lady unique-slippery-gore"? |
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136 & 138 |
Ix Hun-PeTaH- "lady unique-circular-" {cf. Kemetian PTH., god of pottery-wheel} |
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136 & 139 |
Kin C^ac Ahau Canal "sun great lord on high" |
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139 |
dzoc [? = dzocob palm] |
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23 |
140-143 |
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141 |
habin "Piccidia" tree |
17 400s of wasp-larvae; flea-larvae |
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142 |
ix tab-cal-nok "neck-cord-worm" |
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143 |
luc^ "calabash (tree-gourd)" |
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24 |
143-145 |
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143 |
ci "maguey(-spines for blood-letting)" |
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25 |
145-148 |
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145-148 |
Itzam-cab "lizard-earth"(: his liver = hearth, thigh = firewood, tongue = flame) {cf. Prometheus, who brought fire (GM 39.g), and whose liver (GM 39.h) was eaten} |
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146 |
red bubul-can "frog-spawn-shoot"; white bubuy-can "foggy shoot" |
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146 & 148 |
cocay "firefly" |
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26 |
148-149 |
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149 |
Ix Bolon-puc's maternal grandmother (148 at water-spring) |
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27 |
150-153 |
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150 |
"The thigh of Ix Hun-itzam-na ("lady unique-lizard-house")" {cf. origin of sweet potato from torn-off leg of goddess Lono-muku, in Hawai>ian myth [sweet-potato growing up tree]} - |
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153 |
ix-kanan shrub; puc-ak "mouse-liana"? "Notoptera" [growing up kan-c^unup tree] |
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albumen of egg {cf. egg laid by Nemesis (GM 32.b), who holdeth wheel (GM 32.a) [wheel being round]} |
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28 |
153-155 |
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153 |
kak-c^acah |
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154 |
C^ac-petan-kin "red-rounded-sun": father; Ix Hoc^an-ek "lady scraped-clean star"?: mother; Ix Pic-tzab "lady 8,000-rattles": mother; Ix Hun-tip[p]-tzab "lady unique-pulsating-rattles": mother; Yax-hal C^ac "green-water C^ac" |
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155 |
Paklah-sus "slapped sand": his mother is Ix Ppohal-mum "lady rubbed-in-the-mud"; his mother is Ix Muk-yah-kutz "she who-strengtheneth-the-tobacco" |
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29 |
155-157 |
"to dry" |
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156 |
copo "a`lamo" tree |
"Dry one ...!" |
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30 |
157-160 |
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157-159 |
"green spider" |
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158-159 |
Ix C^el |
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31 |
160-162 |
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160 |
tulix "dragonfly" thorax, mo "macaw" head |
p.o (star?) Saba-yol in (constellation?) C^uen |
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161 |
sinan "scorpion" |
Suhuy-kak "virgin-fire" (a goddess, founderess of religious order of virgin-nuns) |
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32 |
162-167 |
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163 |
c^ac tok "red flint" [?= c^ac toc "Hamelia"] tree; ix malau |
nabal-bacte worm |
Ix Hun-tah-dzib "lady unique splotch-paint" |
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164 |
tudzi tree |
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167 |
kan-kilis-c^e tree |
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33 |
167-173 |
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167 |
tzalam "Lysiloma" tree; yax-nic "Vitex" tree |
sibis "woodlouse" |
trees "hollowly resounding" {cf. humming tree of Yaki (of Sonora), of Papuans, etc.; or else wooden cow made by Daidalos (GM 88.c)} |
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168 |
ek-u-ne "black-its-tail" snake; ah tan-xot "who-cleaveth-in-middle" |
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169 |
aklis-bul "bean-liana" |
{cf. Jack-in-the-beanstalk ?} |
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170 |
p.o Hub-tun Ahau "conch-stone lord" {cf. triton-conch-shell threaded by Daidalos, GM 92.i} |
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171 |
ul "mottled snail" |
koh "mask" |
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34 |
172-173 |
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172-173 |
pipican [?= piccan "Magazoma elephas" insect] |
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35 |
174-180 |
"placenta" {Kemetian h^} |
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174 |
Hun Dzit-balc^e "single slim Lonchocarpus tree" (of town Dzitbalc^e [in Canpec^e], whence "Songs of Dzitbalc^e") |
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175 |
ku[l]-sinic "black emmet" |
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176-177 |
Itzam-cab of bowels {cf. Toba-Pilaga` (of Argentina) intestines of man in the moon} |
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177 |
ti (insect?); uk "louse" |
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178 |
Hun-pic-ti-uoh "8,000 uoh (birds)" {cf. Persian SimurG} |
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179 |
(female) "furrow" {cf. Sita in Rama-ayana} |
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36 |
180-183 |
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181 |
yellow anicab liana |
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182 |
black cibix "Amerimnon" scandent shrub; sac-c^uen-c^e shrub; white kablam |
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183 |
tix-um-xuc^it |
ytzam "lizard" openeth its mouth |
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37 |
183-189 |
"flint" {Tecpatl} |
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184 & 186 |
c^im-tok "flint-capsule, i.e. axe-master Krugdendron" tree |
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185 |
tok-aban "flint-bush, i.e. Trixis" |
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185-186 & 198 |
dzulub-tok "festooned-flint, i.e. Bauhinia" |
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187 |
c^uc-tok "charcoal-flint" |
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187 & 197 |
pepem "butterfly" |
{goddess Itz-papalotl, according to Roys, fn. 137} |
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187 |
pakam "prickley-pear" cactus [food-plant of cochineal insect] |
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188 |
sicil "squash" |
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197-198 |
LuCUM-can {cf. LoCUMba, Tacna, Peru`} "angleworm" (as "cord of my bow") |
{allusion to musical bow, and hence to musical sounds of frogs ?} |
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197 |
yax-kam (for arrow) |
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198 |
ah bab "paddler, i.e. frog" |
Ix Bolon-puc "lady nine-hills" as nathab (thongs) for warping-frame |
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189 |
kik-c^e "rubber tree" |
{rubber to be applied to bow-string, to improve its musical quality ?} |
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38 |
189-194 |
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189-193 |
Itzam-KAN "lizard-cord" {N.B.: as day-sign, Aztec Cuetpallin "lizard" = Maya KAN} of 13 waters each of: gutters (culul), rock-tanks, seas [directional colors, similar to those of Zun~i] |
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39 |
194-206 |
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195 |
yuyum-acan "oriole-groan"; bub-tun-uitz "canopy-stone-hill" |
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200 |
foot of KaSuL: cf. the star Rigel as "foot" of KeSeL "constellation Orion" |
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203 |
(vodun-dolls:) YC^e-uinic {= ICHoca, La Paz, Bolivia}, TII-UiNClis "portrayed figure" {= TIWaNaCu, La Paz, Bolivia}, BOB-oc^ {= BOOPi river, La Paz, Bolivia} [the last similar to the Khimaira of GM 34.a] |
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204-205 |
(60 also) KESUL "damage" {cf. Iban KESULai (CG App.:66-94, etc.) <ibri^ KSULLo^t "trusts"} "suspended from the sky" |
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205 |
nabte "sea-tree, i.e. dart" (for piercing vodun-dolls ?) {cf. <arabi^ arrow in sea, nigh Taj} |
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40 |
207-208 |
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207 |
Ix Bolon Dzacab "lady aeternal-one" |
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208 |
Uuc-seye "seven beater" |
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41 |
208-211 |
bac "bone" |
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209 |
"nest-descender" (chimney-swift) |
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210 |
dzacal-bac "cure-bone" |
bac-hol; bacen-c^ulul |
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211 |
kax-ix- "binding lady-" lianas |
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42 |
212 |
(incantation written in non-Maya language:) "calling a deer" [but this may be a cyclic return to ceh "deer" of spell 1, MS. p. 5] |
[these are perhaps to be counted as 41, as the 42nd would appear non-medical, and thus extraneous]
Peru` (MS. pp. 25, 123, 197-198) & Chile (MS. p. 110) & Bolivia (MS. pp. 82, 203)
N.B. the levels of the universe of given in the order of their importance:-
Ritual of the Bacabob |
traditional |
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skies {cf. Vyoma-s} |
9 (e.g., MS. p. 17) |
13 |
earth-layers {cf. Tala-s} |
13 (e.g., MS. p. 108) |
7 |
netherworlds (cf. Naraka-s} |
[must be 7] |
9 |
{the Maya traditional numeration of these is also Bon}
THE CIVILIZATION OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN SERIES. Ralph Roys (translator & annotator): Ritual of the Bacabs. U. of OK Pr, Norman, 1965
PMT = CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON, Publication 585. Ralph L. Roys: The Prophecies for the Maya Tuns. 1949
BH = Frank Waters: Book of the Hopi. Viking Penguin, 1963
HM = Martha Beckwith: Hawaiian Mythology. Yale U. Pr, 1940
CG = Igoh anak Impin (informant); Patrick Ringkai (transcriber); James Jemut Masing (translator): The Coming of the Gods. Australian National U., Canberra, 1997
CM&S = Anne Birrell (translator & annotator): The Classic of Mountains and Seas. Penguin Books, London, 1999
SShCh = The Search for Spirits (Sou Shen Chi), translated in:- Roger Blackwell Bailey: A Study of the Sou Shen Chi. PhD diss, IN U., 1966
GM = Robert Graves: The Greek Myths. 1955