tarantula-divination of the Kaka----------------------------------------------Aztec day-signs
48-48. NUM "sun" |
132-134. NUM "sun" |
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50-51. LUMGAN "year" |
135-136. LUMGO,N 2 years |
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146-149. pitfall as man-trap |
201-202. "gallows" |
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150-153. |
203. |
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154-157. "crossroads" |
204-205. 3 "crossroads" |
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158-161. "tears of weeping" |
1. CiPaCtli = [etymologically, acc. to Kelley] Kemetian SBK of the crocodilian tears |
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52-53. "maize" (a plant not familiar to African tradition) |
162. "unfamiliar girls as omens" |
1. Quiche` Imox "scarab" [cf. Kemetian stone scarabs as sigilla: Chinese sigilla are guarded by "jade maidens"] |
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165-168. "knocking stone against another stone" |
206-207. "circle of stones" |
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169-172. 2 "fingers inside mouth" |
208-209. "blowing one's breath over the right index finger" |
2. ehecatl "breath" |
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173-176. "seeing through walls" |
213-214. bunch of sacred grass, for sprinkling [cf. hyssop used in Exodos 12:22 for sprinkling posts of house-doors] |
3. calli "house" |
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177-178. |
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179-182. "arms behind head" |
215-216. sacrificial animal with its limbs held down |
4. cuetzpallin "lizard" [when caught, an iguana's limbs are tied behind it] |
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183-184. "twins" |
5. coatl "snake / twin" |
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185. "spade" |
217-218. "burial in swamp of superannuated cult-objects" |
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219. |
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220-223. "ordeal by poison" |
6. miquiztli "death" |
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54-55. "sorghum" |
186. "theft out of storage-bin for sorghum" |
7. mazatl = Maya manik "hand-gesture" |
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225-228. "a cut" |
8. tochtli = Zapotec lapa "cut up" |
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187-188. "closed lips" |
9. atl [aequated by Kelley with Polynesian funa "secret"] |
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229-230. "hydrophobic hound" |
10. itzcuintli "hound" |
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56-57. "permanent fire for ripening" |
234-237. "dry" |
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238. old human being |
11. ozomatli "monkey" |
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59-60. "raffia" |
239-242. "rope tied around body of the infirm" |
12. malinalli "herb" |
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61. |
190. "slander" |
243-246. "mouth of witch" |
12. Maya euob "jaw" |
62-63. "palmwine" (inducing foolish talk) |
191. "foolish talk, babbling" |
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64-65. "red palmkernel oil" |
192-195. thrice "licking" |
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66-67. "calabash" |
196-197. "fruit of sacred tree" |
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68-69. "spearhead" |
247-250. "a dart" |
13. (codex-form) "spear" |
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70-71. |
198-199. "a charm" |
251-254. "bewitched baskets" |
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72-73. |
256-258. |
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260-261. |
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262. |
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74-75. "horns" |
263-266. "trumpet" |
13. acatl "reed" [cf. Tibetan initiation by whispering through tube] |
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76-77. "leopard-spots" |
267-268. "Leopard-Society" |
14. ocelotl "leopard" of "Leopard Society" |
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88-89. "chicken-feather" |
269-270. "Society of Red Feather" |
15. quauhtli "eagle" of "Eagle Society" |
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92. |
271-274. "god" |
16. cozca-quauhtli = Pipil teotl "god" |
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97-98. 3-legged "stand-drum" |
275-276. "rattles" |
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277-278. |
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279-282. "burial-shaft" |
17. ollin "earthquake" |
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285-286. "new moon" |
18. tecpatl "flint" [cf. Nus.e^ri^ scimitar as moon] |
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99-100. 2 "blocks of wood on which meat is divided" |
287-288. split woman [cf. splitting of goddess Ti>amat in Enuma Elis^] |
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107. "cup" |
19. quiahuitl "rain" |
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110-111. logs whereon council-members sit |
20. Quiche` Hunahpu, who stuck to seat (in the Popol Vuh) |
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116-119. "news from the dead" |
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128-131. "sacrificial obligations" |
289. "daughter" [cf. Guarayu human sacrifice of daughter of deceased father] |
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290. "mock hunt performed at funerals" |
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM, PUBLICATIONS IN ANTHROPOLOGY, 10. Paul Gebauer: Spider divination in the Cameroons. The North American Press, 1964.