Mo-suo Almanac of 32 = Meso-American 20 Day-Signs
p. |
# |
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' |
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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) |
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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")} |
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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 |
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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)} |
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8. |
"Diarrhea and vomit" |
" |
"infirmity and misery" (ChB) |
444 |
9. |
"blood" |
18. |
"Bleeder of fevers" (ChB) |
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10. |
"move" |
17. |
Ollin 'Movement' or |
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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" |
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13. |
"clan's sacred grove" |
" |
Noh 'Medicine' |
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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)} |
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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} |
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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) |
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18. |
"Lard" {cf. blubber} |
" |
"meat" (ChB) |
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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 |
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21. |
"Ear" |
12. |
Malinalli, depicted as a mandible (hinging onto the cranium in the vicinity of the ear) : |
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22. |
"Eye" |
" |
together with eye with its optic nerve |
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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)} |
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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)} |
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26. |
"adopting sons and grandsons" |
" |
"devourer of children" (ChB) {Is this a metaphor for "adopter of children"?} |
449 |
27. |
"Deformed person" |
8. |
"deformed dog" (ChB) |
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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) |
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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) |
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30. |
"fire-making" |
5. |
"fire his spirit" (ChB) |
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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) |
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"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]