Naks.atra-Figures = Meso-American Day-Signs
Naksa.tra-figure (Jaina) |
Meso-American day-sign |
various myths |
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name |
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name |
comparisons |
5-&-6 |
pool with quay or stairs for descent into it [steelyard] |
1 |
Cipactli crocodile [Imix waterlily (Yucatec)] |
cf. kiva, entred through aperture in roof, with ladder for descent into it |
7 |
boat [fish (GP) : cf. Matsya-gandha 'Fish-odor'] |
2 |
Ehecatl wind |
Sumerian divine boat wherein wind-god En-lil and wind-goddess Nin-lil had sexual intercourse |
8 |
horse's head : cf. as`va-gandha 'horse-odor' {mare's scent in Persian story by Herodotos} |
3 |
Calli {*/karyi/ : cf. Karia bordering Kabalis, cf. Latin caballus 'old nag'} House |
Within the Wooden Horse, an army was housed, one Anti-elos being strangled (GM 167.k) : cf. gallows as (in kenning; cf. demise of Starkad) Sleipnir the divine horse. |
9 |
vulva |
4 |
Cuetzpallin lizard |
Lizard is the day-sign attached to the genitalia in Meso-American codices. |
10 |
barber's satchel [barber's razor (GP)] {cf. Occam's razor and the shaving of Is-baddaden = Bdad} |
5 |
Chic-chan 'twist-snake' (Yucatec) baring its fangs (in glyph) {cf. Papuan swine ritually designated as a feathered snake} |
CADw shaved a beard with a boar's tusk (M"C&O") : in Illuria (= Pauran.ik Ila-vr.ta), snakefang-sower KADmos and his wife "became blue-spotted black snakes" (GM 59.e) |
11 |
"tongue" |
6 |
Miquiztli skull |
Cf. Nupe myth of talking skull ("TBMH"). |
12 |
gazelle's head [cat's paw {: its footfall binding Fenrir}] |
7 |
Mazatl deer {< */mas/ Skt 'meat' : pemmican praepared from venison with berries} |
antelope's head in moon (according to >al-Biyruwniy); deer's head in moon (according to Lappish myth) |
13 |
gout of blood |
8 |
Tochtli rabbit |
Throughout West Africa (according to Leo Wiener), it is said that female rabbits menstruate. |
14 |
weighing-scale |
9 |
shark as "devourer" of humans (ChB) |
At weighing of heart versus feather, devourer of (BDThR, 25) human souls lieth in wait. |
15 |
growth-amulet |
10 |
Oc coyote (Highland Maya) |
Coyote's penis grew in length so as to extend to reach swimming girls. |
16 |
flag on flagpole (for Vayu, his son being Hanumant monkey) |
11 |
Ozomatli monkey |
Monkey depicted with pole in Selden Roll; likewise in Heures of Jean duc de Berry. |
17 |
"Broken outer wall" ["A straight tail"]; |
12 |
Malinalli twisted herb (depicted with mandible : cf. the fishing by Maui-tikitiki by means of a hook consisting of a mandible, MM&L, s.v. "Maui", p. 115b) |
Cf. the gaol-break by Melam-pous by means of termites (GM 72.d), aequivalent to the Uliti atoll escape from underground by Yolofat by means of termites (Lessa 1966, pp. 31-2, quoted in IAR, p. 83) : "its clitoris a termite hill" (IAR, p. 46 : Dogon); Yolofat "made the stinger of the stingray" (IAR, p. 82) -- which stinger is, indeed, a "straight tail" -- and encountred "boys who were fishing" (loc. cit.); so that stingray threatened the 5 kleitorides (PMEM&L, s.v. "Stingaree 1") of the mother of 5 sons. |
18-&-19 |
{sick}bed |
12 |
"thrush" (ChB) {name of an ailment} |
'Thrush' is in Latin /turdus/, whence names of Turdetani and Turduli tribes, both in Baetica of Hispania. |
20 |
hand |
13 |
beggar (ChB) {holding hand out so as to beg} |
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21 |
BLOssOM in BLOOM |
14 |
BaLAM leopard (name of a variety of Maya priest) |
BLA-MA is name of a variety of Bodish priest |
22 |
"spike" (according to David Kelley) |
15 |
Cuauhtli eagle |
Garutman bird left its talon (as porcupine-quills [R.c-Veda 4:27:4] or else as as phur-bu) in exchange for soma plant. |
23 |
upa-nayana (sacred thread necklace) |
16 |
Cozca-cuauhtli (Necklace-eagle) |
Is traditionally worn by cela (student) asking guru (teacher) quaestions; mythic vulture is asked quaestions (in 1001 Nights). |
24 |
string of pierced beads |
16 |
sun (Matlatzinca) |
According to the Veda,"Svar[-]bhanu the asura with darkness pierced the sun." (R.c-Veda 5:40:5) |
25 |
elephant's tusk {for pushing felled trees} |
17 |
woodpecker (ChB) {making holes in trees} |
Picus ('Woodpecker', transformed by witch Kirke the falconess) loved fruit-tree goddess Pomona or else Canens (invisible songstress). |
26 |
scorpion |
16 |
Tecolotl owl {cf. owl-goddess Athene wearing leathern palladion, cf. Bon black goddess with "leather faces" (O&DT, pp. 312-3)} |
Yappan the hermit became a scorpion when seduced by goddess Xochi-quetzal (HJ"MPQu"; "X&LCCM", p. 32a); Athene was said to have been "hopefully expecting to have violent love made to her" (GM 25.b) by Hephaistos. |
27 |
"Striding elephant" |
17 |
Ollin earthquake |
Elephants' striding footfalls shake the earth; their long-wave sound is audibly transmitted underground. |
28 |
recumbent lion |
17 |
Caban honey (Yucatec) |
S^ims^own discovered (S^apat.iym 14:8) honey in the cadavre of a lion recumbent. |
1 |
ox's head {cf. Nandin the bull-god} |
17 |
Noh medicine (Highland Maya) |
There is "a lineage of the descent of siddha medicine, from ... Nandi" (RI, p. 129). |
2 |
yoke with buckets {for going to a well} |
18 |
Tecpatl flint [arrow (GP) {of S`arva : S`iva's head shattered}] |
When going to a well, "Jack [Norse Hjuki] fell down and broke his crown". |
3 |
birdcage : cf. the birdcage (Apokalupsis of Ioannes 18:2) wherein is heard "the voice of harpers" (ibid., 18:22). |
19 |
Ayutl turtle (Pipil) {cf. how its carapace is employed as sounding-board for Hellenic lyre-music} |
[man's head (GP) : cf. decapitated head, at Antissa, of "singing" (GM 28.g) Orpheus, whose lyre became (loc. cit.) a constellation] |
4 |
flower seeds {poppy-seeds} [flower (GP); "Circle of stars"] |
20 |
Xochitl flower {cf. how (according to vaipulya sutra) the Pure Land of Amita-abha is entred by being born from a waterlily-flower there} |
One circle of stars would be the constellation Corona Borealis, made for Thetis and (GM 98.0) "set in the shape of roses." |
ChB = Books of Chilam Balam, quoted in Hugh Moran & David H. Kelley : The Alphabet and the Ancient Calendar Signs, 2nd edn (1969), Fig. 19 (pp. 153-6).
HJ"MPQu" = Hero's Journey "Most Precious Quetzal". http://herosjourneyrpg.blogspot.in/2014/07/most-precious-flower.html
"X&LCCM" = Susan Milbrath : "Xochiquetzal and the Lunar Cult of Central Mexico". https://www.academia.edu/2763002/Xochiquetzal_and_the_Lunar_Cult_of_Central_Mexico?auto=download
MM&L = Margaret Orbell : The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Maori Myth and Legend. Canterbury Univ Pr, Christchurch, 1995.
Lessa 1966 = Lessa, William A. : Ulithi : A Micronesian Design for Living. NY : Holt, Rinehart, & Winston.
IAR = Jack David Eller : Introducing Anthropology of Religion : Culture to the Ultimate. Routledge, London, 2007. https://books.google.com/books?id=KjZWBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA83&lpg=PA83&dq= & https://archive.org/stream/JackDavidEllerIntroducingAnthropologyOfReligionCultureToTheUltimateRoutledge2007/Jack%20David%20Eller-Introducing%20Anthropology%20of%20Religion_%20Culture%20to%20the%20Ultimate-Routledge%20(2007)_djvu.txt
PMEM&L = Jan Knappert : Pacific Mythology : an Encyclopedia of Myth and Legend. Aquarian Pr, 1992. (reprinted Diamond Bks, London, 1995.)
O&DT = Rene` de Nebesky-Wojkowitz : Oracles and Demons of Tibet. 's-Gravenhage : Mouton, 1956. cited in Moran & Kelley 1969, p. 178.
R.c-Veda 4:27 https://www.academia.edu/31292594/Itihāsa_of_kṛśānu_a_Soma_pāla_guardian_and_encounters_with_Gāyatri_śyena
R.c-Veda 5:40. http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv05040.htm
GP = Garud.a Maha-puran.a, pp. 153-4 of English translation. https://archive.org/stream/garudapuranam00duttgoog/garudapuranam00duttgoog_djvu.txt
AR = ASIATICK RESEARCHES, vol. 9, facing p. 323 (taken from Upa- puran.a-s?), quoted in Moran & Kelley 1969, Fig. 21 (p. 180).
RI = Richard S. Weiss : Recipes for Immortality : Healing, Religion, and Community in South India. Oxford Univ Pr, 2009. https://books.google.com/books?id=ges6XgLkffEC&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129&dq=
"TBMH" = Raya A. Jones : "Talking Brought Me Here". THEORY & PSYCHOLOGY 20 (2010).4:549-64. https://www.academia.edu/397651/_Talking_Brought_Me_Here_Affordances_of_Fiction_for_the_Narrative_Self
BDThR = E. A. Wallis Budge : The Book of the Dead ... of the Theban Recension. 2nd edn. Kegan Paul, Trench, Tru:bner & Co, 1899.
GM = Robert Graves : The Greek Myths. 1955.
M"C&O" = "Culhwch and Olwen" section of the Mabinogion. http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/mab/mab16.htm
https://www.academia.edu/31292594/Itihāsa_of_kṛśānu_a_Soma_pāla_guardian_and_encounters_with_Gāyatri_śyena
{As for Ysgithwyn, the extraction from his head "took place before the boar knew he was dead" (M:CE, s.v. "Cadw", p. 400). Upon exit of the atman via the brahma-randhra, the decedent may not be aware of being dead.}
M:CE = Harry Mountain : The Celtic Encyclopedia. UPublish.com, 1998.Volume 2. https://books.google.com/books?id=J36WCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA400&lpg=PA400&dq=
[written 12th-13th March 2017]