Chinese h.iu (lunar mansions) |
Codex Borgia, pp. 22 to 24 |
16. tether |
2. tethered heart |
20. beak |
4. beak-mouthed god |
21. three |
5. three beings at |
22. well |
pool |
6. knife-blade-pierced leopard |
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[leopards said in South America |
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23. ghost (of evil person) |
to be transmuted ghosts of evil |
shamans] |
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24. willow |
10. tree |
25. star |
12. starry sky |
2. neck |
13. cord around neck of god |
5. heart |
14. three hearts |
7. sieve |
16. pierced pot containing liquid |
8. dipper |
[dipperful offered to Tlazolteotl on |
p. 76] |
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10. woman |
17. goddess Tlazolteotl |
19. colloquy with owl-headed god |
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12. danger |
[owls often being omens of danger] |
20. snake around maize-plant [cf. |
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garden of the Hesperides, guarded |
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by dragon Ladon and surrounded |
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14. wall |
by a wall. It was walked to by the |
15. stride |
wide-striding Atlas, ruler of |
Atlantis the flooded.] |
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1. flood gushing out of Cipactli |
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[cf. water gushing out of cayman’s |
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mouth in Michael Harner: The Way of the Shaman] |