reverse alignment of Kemetian amulets with MesoAmerican 20 day-signs
Kemetian (EM) |
MesoAmerican |
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p. |
# |
amulet |
# |
day-sign |
29 |
1 |
heart "with the lungs" |
2 |
Ik "breath" |
35 |
2 |
scarab |
1 |
Imox "beetle" |
43 |
3 |
"akham flowers" |
20 |
Xochitl "flower" |
44 |
4 |
"Nilometer" (i.e., measurer of rainfall) |
19 |
Quiahuitl "rain" |
47 |
5 |
"the slaughter" |
18 |
Etz'nab "knife" / "Bleeder" (A&ACS2, p. 156) |
47 |
5 |
"Thou are lifted up, O sick one" |
17 |
Noh "medicine" (A&ACS2, p. 157) |
48 |
6 |
vulture |
16 |
Cozcaquauhtli "vulture" |
[vulture-hieroglyph is determinative in word for 'mother' (as mentioned by Horapollon)] |
15 |
Quauhtli "eagle" = Werika, aquiline sky-mother goddess of the Wic^ol (as also in Alaska -- ChME) |
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47 |
7 |
collar of gold |
14 |
Ix "jaguar" -- cf. [Piac^e of Colombia] "collar of gold" (WH 23) worn by woman Ayacanora who could "tame a jaguar" (WH 25)] |
49 |
8 |
papyrus (for being written on) |
13 |
Ben "reed" {cf. Chinese "bamboo books"} |
50 |
9 |
"tow along" (with rope) |
12 |
Eb "twisted" (scil., strands into rope?) |
50 |
9 |
"human-headed hawk" |
11 |
CHUEN [cf. name of Sumerian god ZU-EN, a bird-god] |
51 |
10 |
ladder |
10 |
Oc "staircase" |
54 |
10 |
"golden vase" |
9 |
MuLuC [cognate with S^emitic ML< "to fill"] / Atl "water" |
54 |
10 |
"he hath collected his [own] flesh" |
8 |
Tochtli "rabbit" (who, according to the Popol Vuh, aided in re-assembling the dismembered body of a god) |
55 |
11 |
two fingers |
7 |
Manik gesticulation |
55 |
12 |
eye |
6 |
"Owl" (A&ACS2, p. 153) |
58 |
13 |
"life" (for mummies!) |
6 |
Cimi "death" |
59 |
14 |
"musical instrument" |
5 |
Chicchan (who call out each to another) |
59 |
15 |
serpent's head |
5 |
"Rattlesnake" |
60 |
16 |
"nutrition" |
4 |
Kan "ripe" |
61 |
17 |
"union, ... animal pleasure" |
4 |
Cuetzpallin (associated with the genitals) |
18 |
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19 |
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20 |
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21 |
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22 |
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63 |
23 |
"the horizon" (of sunset) |
3 |
Akbal "night" |
63 |
24 |
mason's square |
3 |
Calli "house" |
63 |
25 |
plumes |
cf. fledged roofing in South American Indian myth |
|
26 |
EM = E. A. Wallis Budge: Egyptian Magic.
A&ACS2 = Moran & Kelley: The Alphabet and the Ancient Calendar Signs. 2nd edn., 1969.
WH 23 = Kingsley: Westward Ho!, chapter 23 http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/western/WestwardHo/chap23.html
WH 25 = Kingsley: Westward Ho!, chapter 25 http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/western/WestwardHo/chap25.html
ChME = Qiang Li (ed.): Children of the Mother Eagle. 2005.