7 Pho (Tibetan <pho)---------Moke worlds-----------------20 MesoAmerican day-signs
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1. "flying poison": element "earth" as abode of snake |
1. ka`to>ya "big-headed snake" (BH, p. 11) |
5. coatl "snake" (depicted as rattlesnake, poisonous) http://www.innertraditions.com/titles/chsaca.htm |
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2. "unclean evil" |
6. miquiztli |
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3. "odor of death, stinking evil" |
2. koli`c^iyaw "skunk" (BH, p. 15) |
7. mazatl "deer" = Bon musk-deer (exuding odor) |
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4. water |
9. atl "water" |
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4. "corpse-hound": with s`ava "corpse", cf. s`van "hound" |
10. itzcuintli "hound" |
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3. pa`tuwvota "flying shield" (BH, p. 17) |
11. ozomatli "monkey": cf. pithecanthropoid Ravana, who rode vimana (flying machine) |
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3. c^o:vio "antelope" (loc. cit.): cf. "antelope's jawbone" lah.ay-ro>i^ |
12. malinalli (depicted as jawbone) |
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5. "fallen arrow": cf. the hsiu "arrow" |
13. acatl "reed" (depicted as spear) |
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6. heaven |
4. tohopko "mountain lion" (BH, p. 22) |
14. ocelotl "ocelot" |
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6. "night bird" as bringer of nightmares |
4. monwau "owl" (loc. cit.) |
16.. Pipil tecolotl, Quiche` "owl" http://edj.net/mc2012/fap4.html |
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7. "sipping thief" |
17. caban, cf. cab "bee" (sipping honey) |
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ma`hu (BH, p. 37) the "katydid" (shaped like flint blade) |
18. tecpatl "flint blade" |
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"rain" (BH, p. 43): weather-god (BH, p. 44) is depicted (BH, p. 45) as tortoise-shaped |
19. quiahuitl "rain" = Pipil ayotl "tortoise" |
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"flower" (BH, p. 59) |
20. xochitl "flower" |
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BH = Frank Waters: Book of the Hopi. Viking Penguin Books, 1963. |
Note this Chinese list's beginning with "snake", same beginning as with Bon list.