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, |
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according to Navaho] |
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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 |
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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 |
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of Mountains and Seas. 1999 |