TNaK = Tehuacan
rulers of Yis`ra^>e_l |
20 day-regents (Codex Borgia 22 to 24) |
cognate with Liwya^ta^n the crocodile: |
1. crocodile producing a |
Le_wi^ |
waterfall [cf. waterfall-site of |
the first high-priest |
Michael Harner's initiation as shaman] |
Qha^t [= Ugaritic >qht, |
2. god [same as that on p. 49, |
who was killed by a flying god] |
being killed by a winged vampire-bat] |
Yis.har [cf. s.o_har |
3. god looking upward |
"noon" (time of sun at zenith)] |
toward zenith |
<amra^m [cf. <a^mar |
4. Maya day Kan "ripe" (for harvesting |
"to bind sheaves"] |
as sheaves) |
Yitro^, alias dictus Qe^ni^ "nesting": |
5. macaw, flying; with |
his daughter S.ippo_ra^h "bird" |
bird-headed goddess; |
at water-well overcame men (S^m 2:17) |
water containing man |
fall of Qe^ni^ was predicted (BM 24:22), |
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with lion (BM 24:9), by BiL<AM |
6. leopard (BaLAM in Maya) |
B>e_r S^eba< "seven wells" of |
7. 8 round wells (?) of |
>ahro^n, a nudist: |
naked man |
>ahro^n was survived by Mo_s^eh, who |
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"put a veil on his face" (S^m 34:33) |
8. wearing human skin, and |
directed migration |
holding liahona |
crossing of Yarde_n river |
9. Atl "water" |
Kaleb (S^p 1:12) "hound" |
10. Itzcuintli "hound" |
>e_h.u^d "blew a horn" (S^p 3:27) |
11. blowing conch-shell |
S^amgar (S^p3:31) = |
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s^a^mayim "two skies" + |
12. multi-layered sky; |
ga^ro^n "neck" |
disk as colar around god's neck |
Si^sra^> with |
13. god with |
"two dyed garments of broidery |
two cords |
for the neck" (S^p 5:30) |
around neck |
Gid<o^n "shall not die" (S^p 6:23) |
14. death-god (who cannot die) |
Yo^ta^m of "sweetness" (S^p 9:11) |
15. god as taster |
house of Millo^> (S^p 9:20) "fullness" |
16. full, overflowing pot |
woman (S^p 9:53) |
17. goddess Tlazolteotl |
30 sons, 30 villages (S^p 10:4) |
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[days of month ?], of Ya^<u^r "wooded": |
18. wooden-staff-holding |
cf. "Ancient of Days" the white-haired |
white-haired man |
Yipta^h. spake with |
19. owl-headed god speaking with |
his own daughter (S^p 11:35) |
goddess |
20. maize-plant, enwreathed with snake |
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>e^lo^n (S^p 12:11) "oak-grove" |
(like oak-tree with mistletoe ?) |
shamanic parallels
shamanism |
Codex Borgia 22-24 |
"a waterfall", viz., "a gigantic, grinning crocodilian head, from whose cavernous jaws gushed a torrential flood of water." (ShThT, p. 171) |
1. (p. 22) waterfall issuing from crocodilian head |
"giant bat" (ShThT, p. 177): "actually |
2. (p. 22) blood-god (= same blood-god having his blood quaffed by vampire-bat on p. 49) |
large, shiny black creatures with |
3. (p. 23) black god |
stubby ... wings and huge whale-like bodies." (ShThT, p. 173) |
4. (p. 23) winged god) |
"people with the heads of blue jays and the bodies of humans" = "bird-headed gods" (ShThT, p. 172) |
5. (p. 23) green-quetzal-bird-headed goddess |
"the sky ... outer space" (p. 177) |
6. (p. 24) starry sky, partly red and partly dark |
"Outer Darkness" (p. 177) |
7. (p. 24) man plunging into darkness |
ShThT = Jeremy Narby & Francis Huxley (eds.): Shamans Through Time. Jeremy P. Tarcher, NY, 2001. [quoting from:- Michael Harner: The Way of the Shaman. NY: Harper & Row, 1980)