28 naks.tra-regents------------sacrificial animals-------------Aztec/Maya day-signs
1. Agni "fire" |
:19 crow |
10. Maya Oc "coyote", who in Shoshone myth stole fire; parakeet (A&ACS) |
2. Praja-pati |
:12 ape |
11. Ozomatli monkey |
5. A-diti [= Hellenic Adite, a Danai:d who slaughtered her own husband while having sexual intercourse, for the first time, with him -- a motif otherwise charcteristic of the toothed-vagina woman} |
12. Maya Ee tooth; Mixe (NVSCM, p. 44) Tuuts tooth. |
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6. Br.has-pati |
:17 cat |
14. Ocelotl ocelot |
7. Sarpa {"the raging serpent like the rushing wind" --- VM. The Kemetian wind-god S^W is a post propping up the sky.} |
16. Mixe Paa post, pole (CM) |
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8. Pitr. (the ancestral dead, repraesented particularly by their heads) |
17. Ollin [< *ORIn] earthquake {cf. sensation adhaering to the earth when one one's ORI-s,a (loa) mounteth to one's ORI ("head") according to the Yoruba} |
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9. Bhaga |
:13 sea-crow |
18. Tecpatl flint [depicted carried in mouth by black eagle, in Codex Borgia, p. 18] |
10. Aryaman |
:15 cuckoo [blue cuckoo of Tibet ?] |
19. quetzal-bird (A&ACS, p. 156) [often blue] |
11. Savitr. |
:18 yellow-haired |
20. Xochitl flower (depicted yellow) |
12. Tvas.t.r. {cognate with Teutonic Tvisto, Norse Tjazzi the fire-bird} |
1. Cipactli, depicted as alligator lack lower jaw: evidently the Lantenaria phosphorea, a phosphorescent-bodied night-flier |
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13. Vayu "the wind" |
2. Ehecatl "the wind" |
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14. [Indra] |
:11 boar [cf. reputed ability of swine to see in the dark] |
3. Akbal night |
15. Mitra |
:14 lizard |
4. Cuetzpallin lizard |
16. [S`akra] |
:14 boa-constrictor |
5. Coatl snake |
17. Nir-r.ti |
:18 owl |
6. owl (A&ACS, p. 153) |
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19. Vis`ve-deva |
:17 dappled deer |
7. Mazatl deer" |
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22. Vasu |
:16 francolin partridge |
[mazatl is cognate with Uto-Nahuan word for "feather] |
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25. Ahi BUDHNYA: Cf. BUDDHA, who, during his incarnation as hare, cooked self to death |
8. Tochtli rabbit |
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28. Yama {cf. <ibri^ ya^m "sea"} |
9. shark (A&ACS, p. 153) |
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HDh, Vol. 5, Pt. 1, Sec. II, Ch. XV. pp. 501 to 504 |
TS 5:5: |
A&ACS |
references:--
A&ACS = Hugh A. Moran & David H. Kelley: The Alphabet and the Ancient Calendar Signs. 2nd edn. 1969.
HDh = GOVERNMENT ORIENTAL SERIES -- Class B, No. 6. Pandurang Vaman Kane: History of Dharmas`astra. Poona: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 1958.
TS = Taittiriya Samhita of the Kr.s.n.a Yajus-Veda. Arthur Berriedale Keith (transl.): The Veda of the Black Yajus School. Cambridge (MA), 1914.
VM = A. A. MacDonnell: Vedic Mythology. Strassburg, 1897.
NVSCM = SOCIEDAD MEXICANA DE ANTROPOLOGIA, REVISTA MEXICANA DE ESTUDIOS ANTROPOLOGICAS, Tomo Decimonoveno. Mexico, 1963. pp.41-53 Irmgard Weilander John & Robert J. Weitlander: "Nuevas Versiones sobre Calendarios Mijes."
CM = SOCIEDAD MEXICANA DE ANTROPOLOGIA, REVISTA MEXICANA DE ESTUDIOS ANTROPOLOGICAS, Tomo Decimonoveno. Mexico, 1963. pp.63-74 Alfonso Caso: "El Calendario Mixe."