Daoist world-ages = Huisi Tacu
|
DE, pp. 36-42 |
GD, p. 208 |
page:column |
Codex Vindobonensis |
|
1.Hun-Yuan "Vast Prime" |
|||
|
2. Hon-Yuan "Coagulated Prime" |
|||
|
3. Tai-C^u "Grand Antecedence" |
|||
|
4. Tai-S^i "Grand Initiation" |
|||
|
5. Tai-Su "Grand Immaculate" |
|||
|
6. Hun-Dun |
35:2 |
[striped] living upper-body-of-stone |
|
|
7. Jiu-Gon "Nine Palaces" |
35:2 |
day 9 Cipactli |
|
|
8. Yuan-Huan "Primordial Sovereign" |
[5. "Heavenly King of Primordial Beginning", p. 124] |
35:2 |
hero 1 Xochitl (= Quiche` Hunahpu) |
|
9. Tai-S^an-Huan "Great Highest Sovereign" |
4. S^an-Huan "Highest Sovereign" [= "Highest Sovereign of Emptiness,the Great Dao of Jade Dawn", p. 126] |
35:1 |
Tlaloc in the sky (Tlaloc usually being clad in jade) |
|
10. Di-Huan "Earth Sovereign" (earth for interrment within?) |
3. Kai-Huan "Opening Sovereign" (opening of a grave?) |
(20:3) 33:4 |
god with conical hat [such a had being worn by Mictlan-tecutli, god of interrments & graves] |
|
11. Ren-Huan "Human Sovereign" [the Dao De Jin admonisheth to "discard humanity", indicating thus that "humane" signifieth "foul, harsh usage"] |
(20:3) 33:4 |
god with flint blades as mouth [indicating harsh, foul language?] |
|
|
12. Zun-Lu: "Venerable ..." |
(20:3) 33:3 |
bearded god [beard making for venerability] |
|
|
13. Gou-Lou "Crooked ..." |
(20:3) 33:3 |
god wearing jagged headdress |
|
|
14. He-Xu "Glorious ... " |
(20:3) 33:3 |
on seat, god having as his headdress a bird (some male birds making courtship-displays, i.e. glorying, before females) |
|
|
15. Tai-Lian |
(20:3) 33:2 |
||
|
[Fu-Xi's assistant is "Ch>ung (the Multiple and Regeneracy)" (CSCh, p. 27)] |
(20:3) 33:2 |
2-headed god |
|
|
16. Fu-Xi "Hidden Vapor" [tailed god, CSCh, p. 12] |
(20:4) 33:1 |
tailed god |
|
|
17. +Nu:-Gwa "snake woman" |
(20:4) 33:1 |
snaky-haired goddess 11 Coatl |
|
|
18. S^en-Non "Divine Farmer" |
(21:1) 32:4 |
god on seat |
|
|
19. Sui-Ren "Fire Drill" |
(21:4) 32:1 |
fire-drill |
|
|
20. Z^u-Ron "Blessed Smelter" |
(26:2) 27:1 |
man holding flaming torches, igniting sky & earth-monster |
|
|
21. Gao-Yuan "High Source" [the term for "source" having a sexual connotation in Samskr.ta] |
16:6 (37:1) |
3-lobed-headed god [=3-lobed-headed Zu~ni god god Koyems^i, HK, Plate XLV; "performing certain obscene acts", ibid., p. 32] |
|
|
22. Gao-Yan "High Male" |
16:2 (37:2) |
from opened tree emergeth a man (naked) |
|
|
23. Gao-Xin "High Toil" |
16:2 (37:2) |
2 gods [toil at] opening tree |
|
|
24. Can-Jie "Dark Knot" |
3."knotting of cords" |
15:2 (38:1) |
knotted cords |
|
25. Huan-Di "Yellow Emperor" [who is said to have invented acupuncture] |
12:4 (41:1) |
pins stuck into site |
|
|
26. S^ao-Hao "Lesser Brillliance" [S^ao Hao "has a falcon's body ... He also dwells on top of Mt. Ch>ang Liu" (CSCh, p. 28)] |
9:4 (44:1) |
eagle under overhanging mountain |
|
|
[S^ao Hao's "sacred animal is a white tiger" (loc. cit.)] |
8:3 (45:2) |
ocelot on hill |
|
|
27. Z^uan-Xu [C^uan Hsu: (Z^uan-Xu) "is the mighty god who once executed the Estrangement of Earth from Heaven" (CSCh, p. 29)] |
7:2 (47:1) |
Quetzal-coatl elevating sky from earth |
|
|
[C^uan Hsu: (Z^uan-Xu) "has a bird's body with green snakes hanging down from each ear" (loc. cit.)] |
5:3 (48:1) |
Quetzal-coatl (Whose name-sign is "quetzalbird-snake") |
|
|
= "Master of the Red Essence" |
2. C^i-Min "Red Radiance" |
||
|
28. Di-Ku |
1. Lon-Han "Dragon Country" |
2:2-4 (51:1-3) |
dragon (feathered serpent)-suited gods |
Perhaps the subdivisons (of these 2 Daoist lists), repraesenting reversely read sequences in the Codex Vindobonensis, can be reconciled by assuming a [Jaina-style] Kala-cakra of ascending & descending stages. And (in view of the similarity between the 28 of one list and now being the 28th maha-yuga of the current Manu-antara) an appropriate way to reconcile the 2 Daoist lists (each as a whole) with each other would be to correlate the idea (in the literature of the Theosophical Society -- taken from some upa-puran.a ?) of pairs of Manu-antara-s as the ascending & descending stages.
TE = Livia Kohn: The Taoist Experience. Albany (NY): State U. of NY Pr, 1993. [citing the Tai-S^an Lao-Jun Kai-Tian Jin]
DG = Livia Kohn: God of the Dao. Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1998. [citing the Numinous Treasure text Z^i-Hui Zui-Gen Pin]
HT = CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS Y DOCUMENTACIO`N LATINOAMERICANOS, Incidentele Publicaties 24. Maarten E. R. G. N. Jansen: Huisi Tacu. Amsterdam, 1982.
HK = TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. Jesse Walter Fewkes: Hopi Katchinas. Washington, 1903.
CSCh = ASIAN THOUGHT AND CULTURE, Vol. VIII. Robert Shanmu Chen: A Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Cyclic Myths. Peter Lang, 1992.