tarantula-divination of the Kaka----------------------------------------------Aztec day-signs

48-48. NUM "sun"

132-134. NUM "sun"

   

50-51. LUMGAN "year"

135-136. LUMGO,N 2 years

   
 

146-149. pitfall as man-trap

201-202. "gallows"

 
 

150-153.

203.

 
 

154-157. "crossroads"

204-205. 3 "crossroads"

 
 

158-161. "tears of weeping"

 

1. CiPaCtli = [etymologically, acc. to Kelley] Kemetian SBK of the crocodilian tears

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"]

 

163-164.

   
 

165-168. "knocking stone against another stone"

206-207. "circle of stones"

 
 

169-172. 2 "fingers inside mouth"

208-209. "blowing one's breath over the right index finger"

2. ehecatl "breath"

       
 

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"

 

177-178.

   
 

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]

 

183-184. "twins"

 

5. coatl "snake / twin"

 

185. "spade"

217-218. "burial in swamp of superannuated cult-objects"

 
   

219.

 
   

220-223. "ordeal by poison"

6. miquiztli "death"

54-55. "sorghum"

186. "theft out of storage-bin for sorghum"

 

7. mazatl = Maya manik "hand-gesture"

   

225-228. "a cut"

8. tochtli = Zapotec lapa "cut up"

 

187-188. "closed lips"

 

9. atl [aequated by Kelley with Polynesian funa "secret"]

   

229-230. "hydrophobic hound"

10. itzcuintli "hound"

       

56-57. "permanent fire for ripening"

 

234-237. "dry"

 
   

238. old human being

11. ozomatli "monkey"

59-60. "raffia"

 

239-242. "rope tied around body of the infirm"

12. malinalli "herb"

61.

190. "slander"

243-246. "mouth of witch"

12. Maya euob "jaw"

62-63. "palmwine" (inducing foolish talk)

191. "foolish talk, babbling"

   

64-65. "red palmkernel oil"

192-195. thrice "licking"

   

66-67. "calabash"

196-197. "fruit of sacred tree"

   

68-69. "spearhead"

 

247-250. "a dart"

13. (codex-form) "spear"

70-71.

198-199. "a charm"

251-254. "bewitched baskets"

 

72-73.

 

256-258.

 
   

260-261.

 
   

262.

 

74-75. "horns"

 

263-266. "trumpet"

13. acatl "reed" [cf. Tibetan initiation by whispering through tube]

76-77. "leopard-spots"

 

267-268. "Leopard-Society"

14. ocelotl "leopard" of "Leopard Society"

88-89. "chicken-feather"

 

269-270. "Society of Red Feather"

15. quauhtli "eagle" of "Eagle Society"

92.

 

271-274. "god"

16. cozca-quauhtli = Pipil teotl "god"

97-98. 3-legged "stand-drum"

 

275-276. "rattles"

 
   

277-278.

 
   

279-282. "burial-shaft"

17. ollin "earthquake"

       
   

285-286. "new moon"

18. tecpatl "flint" [cf. Nus.e^ri^ scimitar as moon]

99-100. 2 "blocks of wood on which meat is divided"

 

287-288. split woman [cf. splitting of goddess Ti>amat in Enuma Elis^]

 

107. "cup"

   

19. quiahuitl "rain"

110-111. logs whereon council-members sit

   

20. Quiche` Hunahpu, who stuck to seat (in the Popol Vuh)

       

116-119. "news from the dead"

     

128-131. "sacrificial obligations"

 

289. "daughter" [cf. Guarayu human sacrifice of daughter of deceased father]

 
   

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.