reverse alignment of Kemetian amulets with MesoAmerican 20 day-signs

Kemetian (EM)

MesoAmerican

p.

#

amulet

#

day-sign

29

1

heart "with the lungs"

2

Ik "breath"

35

2

scarab

1

Imox "beetle"

43

3

"akham flowers"

20

Xochitl "flower"

44

4

"Nilometer" (i.e., measurer of rainfall)

19

Quiahuitl "rain"

47

5

"the slaughter"

18

Etz'nab "knife" / "Bleeder" (A&ACS2, p. 156)

47

5

"Thou are lifted up, O sick one"

17

Noh "medicine" (A&ACS2, p. 157)

48

6

vulture

16

Cozcaquauhtli "vulture"

   

[vulture-hieroglyph is determinative in word for 'mother' (as mentioned by Horapollon)]

15

Quauhtli "eagle" = Werika, aquiline sky-mother goddess of the Wic^ol (as also in Alaska -- ChME)

47

7

collar of gold

14

Ix "jaguar" -- cf. [Piac^e of Colombia] "collar of gold" (WH 23) worn by woman Ayacanora who could "tame a jaguar" (WH 25)]

49

8

papyrus (for being written on)

13

Ben "reed" {cf. Chinese "bamboo books"}

50

9

"tow along" (with rope)

12

Eb "twisted" (scil., strands into rope?)

50

9

"human-headed hawk"

11

CHUEN [cf. name of Sumerian god ZU-EN, a bird-god]

51

10

ladder

10

Oc "staircase"

54

10

"golden vase"

9

MuLuC [cognate with S^emitic ML< "to fill"] / Atl "water"

54

10

"he hath collected his [own] flesh"

8

Tochtli "rabbit" (who, according to the Popol Vuh, aided in re-assembling the dismembered body of a god)

55

11

two fingers

7

Manik gesticulation

55

12

eye

6

"Owl" (A&ACS2, p. 153)

58

13

"life" (for mummies!)

6

Cimi "death"

59

14

"musical instrument"

5

Chicchan (who call out each to another)

59

15

serpent's head

5

"Rattlesnake"

60

16

"nutrition"

4

Kan "ripe"

61

17

"union, ... animal pleasure"

4

Cuetzpallin (associated with the genitals)

 

18

     
 

19

     
 

20

     
 

21

     
 

22

     

63

23

"the horizon" (of sunset)

3

Akbal "night"

63

24

mason's square

3

Calli "house"

63

25

plumes

 

cf. fledged roofing in South American Indian myth

 

26

     

EM = E. A. Wallis Budge: Egyptian Magic.

A&ACS2 = Moran & Kelley: The Alphabet and the Ancient Calendar Signs. 2nd edn., 1969.

WH 23 = Kingsley: Westward Ho!, chapter 23 http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/western/WestwardHo/chap23.html

WH 25 = Kingsley: Westward Ho!, chapter 25 http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/western/WestwardHo/chap25.html

ChME = Qiang Li (ed.): Children of the Mother Eagle. 2005.