Book of What Is In the Netherworld |
Codex Borgia, pp. 9 to 13, & pp. 61 to 70 |
1:1 (p. 232) "The Heart of the Earth" |
3A (p. 63) Tepe-yollotl "Mountain-Heart" |
1:1 (p. 232) +"The Throat" |
3B (p. 63) red-lipped +Tlazolteotl |
1:1 (p. 232) 3 jackal-headed gods |
4A (p. 64) Ueue-coyotl "Ancient Coyote" |
1:3 (p. 236) "The Speaker" |
4B (p. 64) The Speaker (with speech-scroll) |
1:4 (p. 237) +"The One of the City" |
4C (p. 64) +at ruin |
1:4 (p. 238) +"She of the Water" |
5A (p. 65) +Chalchiuhtl-icue of the water |
1, end (p. 239) "The Sealer of the Earth uncovers for thee his shoulder" |
5 (p. 11) eagle with human hands at its shoulders |
2:1 (p. 241) "This GREAT GOD makes grants of fields" |
6A (p. 66) Tecciztecatl before (making grant of ?) square (field ?) |
2:1 (p. 241) +"The Learned One" |
6[B] (p. 11) +(erudite) sibyl prophesieth cosmic doom (with starry speech-scrolls of darkness) |
2:1 (p. 242) +"The One who swallows without rest" |
7 (p. 12) at conchy-water (the restless sea ?), Tlaloc the thunder-god{: cf. thunder-god Tor, who swallowed the sea) |
2:1 (p. 242) +"She who gives birth to herself" |
8A (p. 68) +Mayahuel = +Ayo-pechtli giving birth |
2:3 (p. 244) "The Opener of Time"; "The Guardian of Time"; "The One of the Year" |
9A (p. 69) Xiuh-tecuhtli, god of time and of the year |
2:3 (p. 245) "The Keeper of the Divine Abode" |
9B (p. 69) Tlahuizcalpan-tecuhtli "Lord (High Keeper ?) of the House (of dawn)" |
2, end (p. 246) "evil odor of your decomposition". 3:1 (p. 247) a mummy |
10[A] (p. 13) evil odor (of fart) entering nostrils of Mictlan-tecuhtli, god of decay |
3:2 (Fig. 76) 3 boats being poled, by polesmen, through swamp |
10B (p. 70) man being thrust, with pole by polesman, into swamp |
3:3 (p. 247) 5 ibis (fisher-bird)-headed gods |
11 (p. 13) fisherman |
4 (p. 254) slanting passage through the earth. 4:2 (p. 257) the eye Skr |
12 (p. 13) exiting from cavern, a badger (who in Navaho myth was first animal-god to emerge from underground) blind-folded |
4:2 (p. 258) "Green Face" {cf. >al-H^id.r "the Green" who punisheth the living} |
13[A] (p. 12) Ixquimilli, punisher of the living |
4:3 (p. 259) "The Walker" |
13(inaccurately 12)B (p. 69) smoky-footed god Tezcatli-poca |
5 (p. 262) +H^my[t] "theOverthrower" |
14[A] (p. 12) +Tlazol-teotl |
5:3 (p. 261) a serpent from whose head emergeth a baboon's head |
14(inaccurately 13)B starry smoky-tailed snake |
5:3 (p. 267) "He lives by the breath ... who opens his two wings, He of Dappled Plumage" |
14[C] wind-blown curtain in temple of owl |
6:1 (p. 272) "the corridor which carries the fight" {cf. corridor in palace of Odusseus, through were were brought shields and spears, by warrior whose nose was therefor amputated} |
15[A] (p. 11) shield and spears; red-and-yellow-striped-faced god, his nose being pinched by an amputated arm |
6:2 (p. 269) a god is surrounded by the coil of a five-headed serpent |
15(inaccurately 14)B (p. 67) man being swallowed by plumed serpent |
6:3 (Fig. 79) 4 +seated on invisible (transparent ?) thrones |
16 (p. 11) +Itz-papalotl (insect) with bleeding plant (sap extracted by lac-insect? -- lac is transparent) |
7:2 (p. 278) a huge serpent whose body is transfixed with knives: (p. 281) "Evil Face", whose vetebrae are 443 cubit long |
17 (inaccurately 16) (p. 65) cut-up snake |
7:3 (p. 278 fn. 105) god human-headed with cat-ears |
17 (inaccurately 16) (p. 65) cropped-eared god Xolotl |
8:1 (p. 286) upon their clothing |
17 (inaccurately 16) (p. 65) garment |
8:2 (p. 289) "The Vase" |
18 (inaccurately 17) (p. 64) vertical water-tubes |
9:2 (p. 294) 12 holding paddles |
19 (inaccurately 18) (p. 63) holding torch (?) |
9:3 (p. 298) +"Lady of the Fiery Glow" |
19 (inaccurately 18) (p. 63) +Chantico "Hearth" |
10:1 (p. 300) +"The One who calls the God" |
19 (p. 9) conch-shell being blown |
10:2 (p. 303) +"She who presides over the Shoulder" {i.e., Demeter, who disguised herself as an old-woman (wrinkled-faced), and sat on "joyless stone"} |
20(inaccurately 19)A (p. 62) +Xochi-quetzal having facial tattooing; with tied black stone (?) |
11:1 (p. 307) "The One with paralyzed arms" |
20(inaccurately 19)B (p. 62) black god wearing maniples |
11:3 (p. 311) +"She who presides over her Slaughtering Block"; +"She who cooks" |
20[C] (p. 9) old woman preparing grain, by grinding it on a block, to be cooked |
12:2 (p. 315) "Power of Time" |
21(inaccurately 20)A (p. 61) Xiuh-tecuhtli the god of time |
12:2 (p. 315) "The Honorable One" {cf. term of address to a judge: "The Honorable ..."} |
21(inaccurately 20)B (p. 61) Xipe Totec wearing human skin {cf. English judge's wearing wig of human hair} |
12:2 (p. 315) "Life" |
1 (p. 61) Tonaca-tecuhtli "Sustenance Lord" |
12:2 (p. 316) The image of S^w "the wind" |
2A (p. 62) Quetzal-coatl the wind-god |
12:3 (p. 317) "Fire in his Eye" |
2B (p. 62) man rubbing own eye |
BOLLINGEN SERIES XL.1. Alexandre Piankoff: The Tomb of Ramesses VI. Pantheon Books, NY, 1954. |