Astika

Aztec

Maya

gods of 9 planets

9 lords of night

glyphic series of 9

     

1. Agni "fire"

1. Xiuh-tecuhtli "fire"

G2 glyph of

 

with burning incense

burning incense ?

 

2. ITZtli "flint": underworld

G3 ITZ-glyph

2. Vyana, (bodily) wind

knives as winds

 
 

3. Piltzin-tecuhtli, his

 

3. Kalmas.a "dyed"

hair red (dyed?);

G4 glyph of face with

 

streak on cheek

dots on cheek

4. Vis.n.u, from whose navel

4. Cin-teotl with

G5 glyph of

a flower bearing god of

a flowering tree;

plant-shoot ?

guna rajas "pollen"

maize (for pollen ?)

 

5. S`ukra, author of

5. Mictlan-tecuhtli,

 

law-code

judge of the dead;

 
 

directional roads

G6 "North"

6.Gauri "Yellow", cf.

6. Chalchihuitl-icue, of

 

Daoist "Yellow Springs"

water-sources;

G7 glyph of face with

 

2 stripes on jaw

stripe on jaw

7. Praja-pati, god of

7. Tlazolteotl, goddess of

 

procreation

prostitution,

G8 glyph of

 

lifting snake

snake-segment

8. Gan.a-pati,

8. Tepe-yollotl

G9 sun-god

known to Bauddha-s as

"mountain-

underground

Hr.daya "heart"

heart"

(heart of earth)

9. Vis`va-karman =

9. Tlaloc, four-fold,

 

Tvas.t.r., whose

of

 

four cups became one

4 buckets;

G1 glyph

 

fish leaping

"fish-in-hand"

CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FACILITY, Number 16:

Studies in the Archaeology of Mexico and Guatemala. Berkeley, 1972.

pp. 53 to 69 David H. Kelley: "The Nine Lords of the NIght."