S^an Hai Jin

Codex Borgia,

(book & paragraph)

pp. 18 to 21

15:23 cat's-head owls

18, # 1. leopard, skull, & owl

15:26 tree of "triply-grey"

19, # 2. tree of grey death-god;

15:27 Mushroom People

red mushrooms

16:1 two beasts guarding;

20, # 3. two pairs of watchful eyen;

River Cold-hot;

steaming pool;

16:3 Girl Kua ("to cut meat away

goddess Chalchihuitlicue

from the bones" -- p. 223)

holding an extracted heart;

16:7 Wife clan; Mount Pair

dead-man & wife as couple

16:8 Mount Square;

21, # 4. ball-court, shaped like

square-rule

square-rule (T-square ends);

16:9 Long-ago Folk;

human bones;

great god Yellow;

yellow-striped gods

North-menial (Manchu);

21, # 5. badger-path [badger menial-

digger of exit from underworld,

according to Navaho]

Mount Bearded-grain;

20, # 6. maize, with maize-silk

reptile like a hare

19, # 7. rattlesnake swallowing rabbit;

16:10 Shaman Bird-net;

dawn-god baiting a bird, and

100 drugs are found

harvesting an eyed (drug) plant

16:11 Mount Queen-mother;

18, # 8. bare-breasted goddess;

jade;

flint-stone carried by black bird

[African vulture will carry aloft a stone

eggs of bird

to be dropped on egg of other bird,

are eaten

to crack open that egg in order to eat it]

Anne Birrell (transl.): The Classic

of Mountains and Seas. 1999