Mo-suo Almanac of 32 = Meso-American 20 Day-Signs

p.

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symbol

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symbol

441

1.

"getting married or befriending azhu lovers"

3.

Az. Calli 'House' : cf. Spanish /casar/ 'to house, to marry'


2.

"Horse rump" {cf. how "Spanish mares could conceive by turning their hindquarters to the wind" (PNH 4:35 & 8:67 -- GM 48.2)}

2.

Az. Ehecatl/ Yuc. Ik 'Wind'

442

3.

"Woman's vagina. ... . ... planting trees"

1.

"Plumeria tree, ... lascivious" (ChB)


4.

"girls ... "skirt-wearing rite""

20.

"EAGLE" (ChB) {cf. Iban myth of goddess Dara Tinc^in Temaga's skirt becoming a bird which flew away ("MITMB")}


5.

"Male-female sexual intercourse"

"

Xochitl 'Flower' {cf. "daisy-chain" variety of collective sexual intercourse}

443

6.

"sun surrounded by a halo"

"

Ahau the Sun-God


7.

"Throat" {cf. Lat. /gula/ 'gullet' sometimes likened to Lat. /gurgit-/ 'whirlpool' (funnel-shaped like upside-down cone); Maori Te Parata being a mythic monster of this nature (MM&L, p. 204a-b)}

19.

CAUaC {apparently cognate with <arabi /QAWuQ/ 'conical wizard's hat'} or QUIAHUitl {possibly cognate with Maori /KIWa/, name of husband of Para-whenua-mea, whose daughters (MM&L, p. 134b) are sent are sent to rescue (MM&L, p. 206a) Natoro-i-rani, who threatened with being swallowed by "the throat of Te Parata" (MM&L, p. 197b)}


8.

"Diarrhea and vomit"

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"infirmity and misery" (ChB)

444

9.

"blood"

18.

"Bleeder of fevers" (ChB)


10.

"move"

17.

Ollin 'Movement' or


11.

"frost"

"

'Earthquake' {which happened at crucifixion of him of the Sacred Heart : cf. Cree windigo's (OD, p. 169) "heart of ice. " }

445

12.

"pastures"

"

"a plain"


13.

"clan's sacred grove"

"

Noh 'Medicine'


14.

"Turtledove" {a white bird : cf. Ioi the "white" (GM 56.a) goddess}

"

Woodpecker (ChB) {cf. [god of the Italic tribe Picentes on the Hadriatic] Picus the "woodpecker" (GM 56.2), who abducted Ioi and "outraged her" (GM 56.d)}


15.

"Livestock may run away" {cf. "cows to escape" (AD, p. 127) by "silvery" flying saucer} {The Irish cow-goddess is "Green" (GM 56.2) : cf. the Yucatec "green rainbow" mentioned in ChB).}

16.

the sun (Matlatzinca) {cf. "the sun ... in zigzag motion ... with rainbow colours" (AD, p. 110) : cf. Ioi the "cow" (GM 56.a) who "coursed sun-wise" (GM 56.b) and "changed her colour" (GM 56.c)}

446

16.

"Pig's mouth" {cf. Christmas baked pig with apple in mouth, wherewith cf. apple of Thomas the Rhymer (maker of rhymes of holy words)}

15.

"of holy words" (ChB). Men 'to make' {poe:ts being denominated "makers" in Scottish}


17.

"Boar's reproductive organ" {helix-shaped : cf. name /Helik-aon/ ('helix of the Aones in Boiotia'), who was spared by means of "a leopard's skin" (GM 168.b)}

14.

Ocelotl (ocelot, the American aequivalent ot the cheetah)


18.

"Lard" {cf. blubber}

"

"meat" (ChB)


19.

"Pig tail"

13.

"Beggar" (ChB) {: cf. "black beggar ... With his white hair tied up behind in a pigtail" ("18thCBE")}

447

20.

"stab and wound people"

"

Acatl, depicted in codices as a spear


21.

"Ear"

12.

Malinalli, depicted as a mandible (hinging onto the cranium in the vicinity of the ear) :


22.

"Eye"

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together with eye with its optic nerve


23.

"tree branch"

11.

Ozomatli/Chuen 'Monkey' : twin brethren became monkeys on miraculously growing tree (PV)

448

24.

"Tiger's head" [which is the Na-hsi don-ba emblem denoting 'time' : cf. footprints on the sands (H.o^L) of time]

10.

Oc 'Ladder' {cf. Ya<qob's dream (H.Lo^m) climbing of ladder to heaven (B-Re>s^it 28:12)}


25.

"Poisoned food" (denoted by triangle)

9.

"SHARK" (ChB), whose teeth are shaped like triangles {"The flesh of Greenland Sharks is highly poisonous to warm-blooded animals, including sled dogs, ravens, fulmars, and humans. Eating even a small quantity of Greenland Shark flesh often results in stiff movements, hyper-salivation, vomiting, explosive diarrhea, conjunctivitis, muscular twitching, respiratory distress, convulsions, and — in severe cases — death." ("GSh)}


26.

"adopting sons and grandsons"

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"devourer of children" (ChB) {Is this a metaphor for "adopter of children"?}

449

27.

"Deformed person"

8.

"deformed dog" (ChB)


28.

bi-ga [unstated (secret) : but possibly denoting the usual mudra for touching tips of thumb and forefinger during praya]

7.

Manik, depicted as the said usual mudra for touching tips of thumb and forefinger during praya (seated meditation)


29.

paen-mi [unstated (secret) : but possibly denoting mortmain (death-hand), i.e., the so-called "hand of glory" employed by burglars]

6.

"assassain" (ChB)


30.

"fire-making"

5.

"fire his spirit" (ChB)


31.

sa,-ta a,-lu [unstated (secret) : but possibly denoting a clutch of 6 eggs (lizard-eggs?), cf. hexad of 6-pointed shield (Zayin) of S^lomoh]

4.

Cuetzpallin 'Lizard' {cf. West African lizard-magic for door-locks (LS&EL, p. 52b, n. 2:48)} {Kemetic hieroglyph for bolt-lock is /Z/, cf. mythic /ZiZ/ of S^lomoh}

450

32.

"sow seeds, raise seedlings"

"

Maize-goddess (ChB)






"DB&WS"

"AP", Fig. 19, pp. 153-4 & 156-7

"DB&WS" = Song Zhaolin : "Daba Beliefs and Written Script". In :- Ma Xisha & Meng Huiying (edd.) : Popular Religion and Shamanism. Brill : Leiden, 2011. pp. 423-84.

"AP" = David H. Kelley : "American Parallels". In :- Hugh A. Moran & D. H. Kelley : The Alphabet and the Ancient Calendar Signs. 2nd edn, 1969. (1st edn by Hugh A. Moran, 1953) pp. 143-87.

ChB = Book of Chilam Balam

PV = Popol Vuh


PNH = Plinius : Natural History.

GM = Robert Graves : The Greek Myths. 1955. http://www.24grammata.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Robert-Graves-The-Greek-Myths-24grammata.com_.pdf

MM&L = Margaret Orbell : The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Maori Myth and Legend. Canterbury Univ Pr, Christchurch, 1995.

OD = Jennifer S. H. Brown & Robert Brightman (edd.) : "The Orders of the Dreamed" : George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibway Religion and Myth, 1823. Minnesota Historical Society Pr, St. Paul, 1988.


"MITMB" = Edric Ong : "Mystic Iban Textiles of Malaysian Borneo". http://www.docstoc.com/docs/148022610/Mystic-Iban-Textiles-of-Malaysian-Borneo---The-2nd-ASEAN

AD = Colin Wilson : Alien Dawn : an Investigation into the Contact Experience. Virgin Publ Ltd, London, 1998; Fromm Internat Publ, NY, 1998.

"18thCBE" = "Eighteenth-Century Black English". In :- Ray Costello : Black Salt: Seafarers of African Descent on British Ships. Liverpool Univ Pr, 2012. http://books.google.com/books?id=PHZ5AgAAQBAJ&pg=PP78&lpg=

"GSh" = Greenland Shark". http://www.elasmo-research.org/education/ecology/polar-greenland.htm

LS&EL = Pascal James Imperato : Legends, Sorcerers, and Enchanted Lizards. Africana Publ Co, NY, 2001.



[written Sept 11 2014]