Navaho

Codex Borgia

   

p. 26 hunt rabbits;

19, # 7 rabbit is caught;

carried wood

tree is chopped;

p. 27. eagle's nest

eagle;

p. 30 snakes ascend snake climbing tree

p. 31 Turkey Buzzard

18, # 8 Turkey Buzzard

attacking human;

dismembering human;

Black Eagle

Black Eagle

p. 31 venison

22, upper reg. deer is killed

p. 31 revived by Fly

[Maori: revived by fly]

p. 31 Spider wove web

[Codex Vindobonensis: cobweb]

p. 34 "Awl Chant"

22, # 1 awl

p. 35 dancing beads

22, # 2 beaded strand;

p. 36 red bonnet

red bonnet

p. 39 Wind-god;

23, # 3 Wind-god

carried up

looking upward

p. 40 wrapped selves in

23, # 4 man wearing

eagle-down

wings

p. 41 girls fetch soapweed;

23, # 5. goddess fetching herb;

wash boys' hair;

man in bath (?);

bitten by watersnake

"snake" day-sign

p. 42 two kinds of Skies

24, # 6 two kinds of skies

p. 43 skyholes

24, # 7 holes;

p. 44. heads from darkness

headfirst into darkness;

p. 47 horns

antler (?)

p. 50 streak down nose

24, # 8 striped clothing;

of sacred grebe

quetzal is cuddled;

p. 51 wands are held

pointer is held

 

24, # 9 day-sign atl [= muluc,

 

cf. Molucca Is. of

p. 51 poisonous tobacco

nutmeg]

p. 55 Red Coyote at

24, # 10 day-sign "hound";

willows, hooped;

tree, breaking while

man through hoops

descended by man

 

24, # 11 clothing speckled

p. 62 Fish, transparent

(symbol for transparent ?)

plate XVII spiked circlet

23, # 12 spiked circlet worn by

p. 65 Sun; Sun's pouch

Sun-god, carrying pouch

p. 65 War-gods

23, # 13 spears

p. 66 Talking God, white

23, # 14 white Mictlantecuhtli

 

23, # 15 own finger in mouth

p. 67 whistle

(to whistle ?)

p. 69 foam

23, # 16 foaming pot

p. 70 wives temporarily

23, # 17 Tlazolteotl, goddess

given to another man

of prostitutes

p. 72 on skin, perishable

24, # 18 bird-skin [of old age]

p. 73 spoke to people

24, # 19 colloquy

   

Gladys A. Reichard:

 

Navajo Medicine Man.

 

N.Y., 1939