"A Book of Maya Incantations"

(plants, animals, & deities as uayasba "symbol")

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plant

animal

deity

         

1

4-12

     
 

4

   

Colop-u-uic^- "snatcher-of-the-eye-" {cf. Kemetian SWTH, the divine aardvark who snatched out the eye of H.R}

 

5 & 8

max-cal "monkey-throat"

   
 

6

tancas-c^e "seizure--tree, i.e. Zanthoxylum"

   
 

7

 

c^ab "anteater = aardvark"

p.o Ix Hun-pudzub- "lady needle, remover-of-[blood]"

 

8

   

p.o Kan-kinic^ "yellow sun-eye"; p.o Ix Hun-tah-acay; p.o Ix Co-tancas-ek "lady mad-seizure-star"

 

9

   

p.o the father of Can-yah-ual-kak "vigorous-enemy-of-fire"

 

9-11

   

Ix Ma-uay "lady detrimental-one"

 

10

 

c^iic^ii bird; sipip bird

 
         

2

15-25

   

ah oc "traveler"

 

19

   

Ix Ho-can-be "lady 4 crossroads", Yum Ho-can-lub "father 4 resting-places"; p.o Bolon C^oc^ "9 releases"

 

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"

 

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)}

 

24

   

Ix Tah-kab, U-lam-tzin {cf. <arabi^ >ulema} = Ah Olon-tzin

 

25

   

Kauil "of food" (:24 falling) at p.o Uaxac-yo-kauil "eight heart-of-food" {cf. food of <es`aw}

         

3

25-30

   

mo "macaw" {= MOhO, Puno, Peru`}

 

26

 

koko bird (insolent)

{Ma`saw "lost his humility", and so became "the deity of death and the underworld." BH, p. 21}

 

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.}

 

28

lukub-tok "flint-remover", sihom-takin "gold soapberry tree" {soap for bath taken by Minos ?}

   
 

29

kanc^e "seat, i.e. button mangrove"

 

"wing, with which he cuts it" {cf. Bon mythic feather which cutteth iron}

         

4

30-32

nicte "plumeria"

   
 

30

on "aguacate = avacado"

   
 

31

dzunun-nicte "hummingbird-plumeria"; bacal-c^e "cob-midget, i.e. Bourreria"

 

[the hummingbird is the midget among birds]

 

31-32

c^ic^ibe "Sida"

   
 

32

   

Yum-ac-uinic-ik "father dwarf-man wind" {cf. Vamana the midget} who "runs" {as Vamana pitted the ground with his walking}

         

5

32-44

     
 

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

 

33 & 36

c^iuoh-xiu "tarantula-plant" [remedy for gangrene]

   
 

34

   

Ix UooH {Samskr.ta goddess VaC}

 

34-36 & 38

 

c^iuoh "tarantula"

 
 

36

put "papaya"

 

{cf. Latin puta "whore" (i.e., liberated woman)}

 

37 & 40 & 42

 

xacat-be "road-jumper, i.e. grasshopper"

{to the Npili^m, the people "seemed like grasshoppers", B-MDBR 13:33}

 

38

tabcan "mangrove"; yaxum tree

   
 

41

xan "guano-palm" of uohil "heart-of-palm"

 

Ix Cucul-patz-kin "lady sunstroke"?

 

42

   

Kolop-u-uic^- "wounder-of-the-eye-" {cf. Odusseus, who wounded the eye of Poluphemos, GM 197.d}

 

43

   

Som-c^>in "violent hurling" {cf. violent hurling of boulder by Poluphemos at ship of Odusseus, GM 197.f}

         

6

44-46

     
 

45

 

c^ac-dzidzib-kik "red cardinal blood", ah c^uy "kite"

 
 

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)}

         

7

46-61

     
 

47-48 & 50-51 & 54 & 56 & 60

 

kantanen (caterpillar covered with feathers -- cf. SShCh 13:16 "Tree grubs ... sprout feathers and change into butteflies.")

 
 

49

   

Pauahtun praesiding over "the door of the house" {cf. Vis.n.u as janitor in Atharva Veda}

 

57

   

"yellow moon" associated with "drunkard" {cf. Aztec}

 

61

 

8,000 each of 3 species of birds

KABaL "potter's wheel" {cf. <arabic KABiL (brother of Habil)} at (60) thutz of neck

         

8

64-82

   

sian "lineage" (recounted in 69), not "incantation"

 

64-65 & 76-77

   

LOTHic "ruffle" {cf. LO^T. (in Br>s^yt)} at (65) KoBa {cf. Ku^B}

 

66

   

speechless dzi vein {cf. Samskr.ta muni, nad.i}

 

66-67

 

hunpedzkin, a poisonous lizard (gila monster?)

 
 

68

 

x-huytok bird

 
 

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"?

 

75

 

coh "puma"

Tix-pic-dzacab "lady-8,000-generations", Tix-ho-dzacab "lady-five-generations"

 

76 & 79

   

"beaten water" cf. "churning of the sea" in Puran.a-s

 

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}

 

78

pul "guava"

 

arrive at p.o Ah Som-pul "sudden thrower" {cf. Solomon Islands belief, the dead go to be catapulted into sky}

 

81

   

C^ac-uayab-cat "great daemon-jar" {cf. West African emplacement of souls of the dead into containers}

         

9

82-83

     
 

82

ix KOC^ {cf. COCHa-bamba, Bolivia}

   
         

10

83-90

     
 

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}

 

83 & 89

 

HuH "iguana" {cf. Kemetian H.H. gods}

 
 

86

 

ic^e-uinic wasp

 
 

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?)}

         

11

90-95

   

C^IBaL {cf. <ibri^ S^IBBoLet}

 

90 & 97

ppoppox "nettle"

   
 

91

   

10 covers on bed {cf. Polynesian 10 skies}

 

94

   

balam-caan "leopard sky" {cf. Tezcatli-poca as leopard-constellation in sky}; green cover ("green flash" of setting caelestial bodies?)

         

12

95-100

     
 

96

 

ek-pip-pam "hawk toucan"

 
 

97

tzaah "prickley tree"; YA {cf. <ibri^ YAhh} "sapote"

   
         

13

100

   

HOBoNte [cf. HOBNil the Bacab]

         

14

101-106

     
 

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]

         

15

106-113

     
 

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"?

 

108

   

place of Ix Cocoyol-cab "lady abstinence", Palum-cit

 

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

 

110

   

Ix C^i-ticil Uaclahun "lady fringe-16"; Ix MA-UL {= MAULe river, Chile} "lady not-arrive"

 

111

   

Ix Kin-sutnal "lady sun-turneth-back"; place of Ix C^ac-lah-yeeb "lady sun-faced-dew"

 

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}

         

16

114-115

     
 

115

ixim-ha "maize-water, i.e. duckweed"

   
         

17

115-122

     
 

116

   

Ah Uuc-yol-sip "lord seven-heart-of-Sip"; Ix Hun-tipplah-can "lady unique-pulsating-sky"

 

118

   

Hun-sip- "unique Sip-"

 

119

 

culix; uixum

C^ac-ek "great (or, "red") star" {cf. red star of Ares}

 

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}

         

18

122-126

     
 

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}

 

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"

 

125

 

oyster

 
         

19

126-128

 

kanc^>ah snake

 
 

127

   

"coiled" {cf. Chinese Pan-gu "coiled antiquity"}

         

20

128-130

     
 

129

   

Anom "humanity" the 1st man

 

130

   

= ah thalcunah {cf. <ibri^ t.al "dew", to which mankind is likened in MYKH 5:7} "setter-up"

         

21

130-133

     
 

131

   

Cum Ahau "seated lord" {cf. Theseus seated in chair of Hades ?}

 

132

 

white ah ii hawk

 
 

133

can-c^ac-c^e shrub; can-tiplah (? can-tipplah) of wine

   
         

22

134-140

     
 

134

dzuto [= dzubto]

 

Ix Hun-[h]acay-kik "lady unique-slippery-blood"?, o.o Ix Hun-[h]acay-olom "lady unique-slippery-gore"?

 

136 & 138

   

Ix Hun-PeTaH- "lady unique-circular-" {cf. Kemetian PTH., god of pottery-wheel}

 

136 & 139

   

Kin C^ac Ahau Canal "sun great lord on high"

 

139

dzoc [? = dzocob palm]

   
         

23

140-143

     
 

141

habin "Piccidia" tree

17 400s of wasp-larvae; flea-larvae

 
 

142

 

ix tab-cal-nok "neck-cord-worm"

 
 

143

luc^ "calabash (tree-gourd)"

   
         

24

143-145

     
 

143

ci "maguey(-spines for blood-letting)"

   
         

25

145-148

     
 

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}

 

146

red bubul-can "frog-spawn-shoot"; white bubuy-can "foggy shoot"

   
 

146 & 148

 

cocay "firefly"

 
         

26

148-149

     
 

149

   

Ix Bolon-puc's maternal grandmother (148 at water-spring)

         

27

150-153

     
 

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]} -

 

153

ix-kanan shrub; puc-ak "mouse-liana"? "Notoptera" [growing up kan-c^unup tree]

   
       

albumen of egg {cf. egg laid by Nemesis (GM 32.b), who holdeth wheel (GM 32.a) [wheel being round]}

28

153-155

     
 

153

kak-c^acah

   
 

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"

 

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"

         

29

155-157

   

"to dry"

 

156

copo "a`lamo" tree

 

"Dry one ...!"

         

30

157-160

     
 

157-159

 

"green spider"

 
 

158-159

   

Ix C^el

         

31

160-162

     
 

160

 

tulix "dragonfly" thorax, mo "macaw" head

p.o (star?) Saba-yol in (constellation?) C^uen

 

161

 

sinan "scorpion"

Suhuy-kak "virgin-fire" (a goddess, founderess of religious order of virgin-nuns)

         

32

162-167

     
 

163

c^ac tok "red flint" [?= c^ac toc "Hamelia"] tree; ix malau

nabal-bacte worm

Ix Hun-tah-dzib "lady unique splotch-paint"

 

164

tudzi tree

   
 

167

kan-kilis-c^e tree

   
         

33

167-173

     
 

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)}

 

168

 

ek-u-ne "black-its-tail" snake; ah tan-xot "who-cleaveth-in-middle"

 
 

169

aklis-bul "bean-liana"

 

{cf. Jack-in-the-beanstalk ?}

 

170

   

p.o Hub-tun Ahau "conch-stone lord" {cf. triton-conch-shell threaded by Daidalos, GM 92.i}

 

171

 

ul "mottled snail"

koh "mask"

         

34

172-173

     
 

172-173

 

pipican [?= piccan "Magazoma elephas" insect]

 
         

35

174-180

   

"placenta" {Kemetian h^}

 

174

   

Hun Dzit-balc^e "single slim Lonchocarpus tree" (of town Dzitbalc^e [in Canpec^e], whence "Songs of Dzitbalc^e")

 

175

 

ku[l]-sinic "black emmet"

 
 

176-177

   

Itzam-cab of bowels {cf. Toba-Pilaga` (of Argentina) intestines of man in the moon}

 

177

 

ti (insect?); uk "louse"

 
 

178

   

Hun-pic-ti-uoh "8,000 uoh (birds)" {cf. Persian SimurG}

 

179

   

(female) "furrow" {cf. Sita in Rama-ayana}

         

36

180-183

     
 

181

yellow anicab liana

   
 

182

black cibix "Amerimnon" scandent shrub; sac-c^uen-c^e shrub; white kablam

   
 

183

tix-um-xuc^it

ytzam "lizard" openeth its mouth

 
         

37

183-189

   

"flint" {Tecpatl}

 

184 & 186

c^im-tok "flint-capsule, i.e. axe-master Krugdendron" tree

   
 

185

tok-aban "flint-bush, i.e. Trixis"

   
 

185-186 & 198

dzulub-tok "festooned-flint, i.e. Bauhinia"

   
 

187

c^uc-tok "charcoal-flint"

   
 

187 & 197

 

pepem "butterfly"

{goddess Itz-papalotl, according to Roys, fn. 137}

 

187

pakam "prickley-pear" cactus [food-plant of cochineal insect]

   
 

188

sicil "squash"

   
 

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 ?}

 

197

yax-kam (for arrow)

   
 

198

 

ah bab "paddler, i.e. frog"

Ix Bolon-puc "lady nine-hills" as nathab (thongs) for warping-frame

 

189

kik-c^e "rubber tree"

 

{rubber to be applied to bow-string, to improve its musical quality ?}

         

38

189-194

     
 

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]

         

39

194-206

     
 

195

yuyum-acan "oriole-groan"; bub-tun-uitz "canopy-stone-hill"

   
 

200

   

foot of KaSuL: cf. the star Rigel as "foot" of KeSeL "constellation Orion"

 

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]

 

204-205

   

(60 also) KESUL "damage" {cf. Iban KESULai (CG App.:66-94, etc.) <ibri^ KSULLo^t "trusts"} "suspended from the sky"

 

205

   

nabte "sea-tree, i.e. dart" (for piercing vodun-dolls ?) {cf. <arabi^ arrow in sea, nigh Taj}

         

40

207-208

     
 

207

   

Ix Bolon Dzacab "lady aeternal-one"

 

208

   

Uuc-seye "seven beater"

         

41

208-211

   

bac "bone"

 

209

 

"nest-descender" (chimney-swift)

 
 

210

dzacal-bac "cure-bone"

bac-hol; bacen-c^ulul

 
 

211

kax-ix- "binding lady-" lianas

   
         

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

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