Codex Manuel (Vindobonensis)---------------The Classic of the Great Wilderness
p. 1a (52b) corner of constellationed sky |
14:2 "At the southeastern corner ..." |
p. 1a (52b) man with speech-scroll issuing from his mouth |
14:3 Big-speech |
p. 1a (52b) small person arising out of the earth |
14:5 There is the Country of Small-people. "Their name is the Little People." |
p. 1a (52b) living corpse-god |
14:6 The name of the deity is the Corpse of Tiller Rain-ghost. |
p. 1a (52b) water issuing |
14:7 There is Mt. Stream. |
p. 1a (52b) man on hill; a drooping plant |
14:8 "They eat millet." |
p. 1a (52b) row of knife-blades |
14:10 "a sword" |
p. 1b (52a) god & goddess upon starry sky |
14:13 Mt. Bright-star |
p. 1b (52a) god & goddess, each having a protruding tooth |
14:17 Black-tooth country |
p. 2a (51d) wind-helmeted god & goddess, identified as Mixtec leopard-deities |
14:19 "There is a god-human here, with ... a tiger's body". |
p. 2a (51d) 4 naked gods, each named "Wind" |
14:20 "he causes the coming and going of the winds." |
p. 2b-d (51a-c) gods, each having a snake hooked around his body |
14:23 "Hook as their family name." |
p. 3a (50d) god, with earthquake-glyph on back, seated on earthquake-glyph |
14:28 Mt. Shake |
p. 3d (50a) silk-cotton tree |
14:30 sweet-bloom trees |
p. 4d (49a) jade (?) |
14:30 "the legacy jade" |
p. 5a (48c) contortionist man |
14:31"a person called Supple." |
p. 5c (48a) descending of dragon-helmeted god from the sky |
14:32 "Responding Dragon could not go back up to the sky." |
p. 5b (48b) painting of codex by scribe |
14:32 "... people make an image of Responding Dragon." |
p. 6b (47a) god Ehecatl beneath and upholding the caelestial sea; in [same ?] water is an animal |
14:33 In the East Sea there is Mt. Flow-wave. "It is submerged in the sea ... On its summit there is an animal." |
p. 7b (46c) double-headed serpent |
15:1 "an animal with a left head and a right head." |
p. 7b (46c) footprints |
15:1 "Its name is the pawprint-kick." |
p. 7c (46b) water amidst 4 segments of starry sky |
15:2 Mt. Flood-sky |
p. 7c (46b) wave-coil |
15:2 "twist-coil" |
p. 7c (46b) leopard (toting water-basin) |
15:2 leopards |
p. 7d (46a) bent mountain, holding back water |
15:5 Mt. Not-straight. "The River Glory comes to an end in it." |
p. 8d (45a) jade mountain |
15:7 "there is jade." |
p. 9b (44c) on mountain, a flowering tree |
15:9 "At the South Pole" the rid-chill tree |
p. 9b (44c) on same mountain, 2 snakes |
15:10 "On an island in the South Sea ... two scarlet snakes" |
p. 10a (43d) little person in pool |
15:15 the Country of the Water-bogy Folk |
p. 10b (43c) a plant (?) growing on mountaintop; person in squared pool |
15:16 "There is a tree growing on the mountaintop. ... There is someone with square teeth". |
p. 11c (42b) insect |
16:14 Mt. Horsefly |
p. 11d (42a) overflowing pool |
16:22 "There is a pool here." |
p. 12a (41d) diagonally banded (diagonally striped ?) leopard |
16:24 "a tiger's body which is striped" |
p. 12c (41b) headless living god |
16:28 "Plough remained standing up headless." |
p. 12d (41a) water |
16:33 fish-wife |
p. 12d (41a) more water |
17:1 Fief Gulf |
p. 13a (40d) water with man beside it |
17:1 "Deep Gulf ... is where the great god Fond Care bathes." |
p. 13a (40d) tray on floor |
17:5 the Tray Tree |
p. 13a (40d) rock upon rock |
17:8 "Where Yu: Piled Up The Rocks" |
p. 13b (40c) feather-garment |
17:11 Adorn Jerkin |
p. 13b (40c) gut (?) |
17:15 No-gut |
p. 13c (40b) pinnacled mountain |
17:18 Mt. Peak |
p. 13c (40b) water with shield (guarded, hoarded ?) |
17:20 "... hoarded up all the water." {cf. Vr.tra} |
p. 13d (40a) bird in mountain |
17:30 "people who have wings." |
CEDLA INCIDENTELE PUBLICATIES 24. Maarten E. R. G. N. Jansen: Huisi Tacu. Amsterdam, 1982. appendix |
Anne Birrell (transl.): The Classic of Mountains and Seas. Penguin Classics, 1999. pp. 157 to 188 |