the eight Cemeteries (S`mas`ana-s)
Tehuacan (Puebla) - the 8 dippers (ladles) |
Iban (of Sarawak) - the 8 domains within Sebayan |
1st green water-god Tlaloc, holding effigy-mug |
3rd "of those who died by drowning" |
2nd man on steep hill; red god [among the Maori, the redness of sunset is ascribed to fall of a god from the height of the sky] |
2nd "of those died by falling from a height" |
3rd golden-spotted red death-god, holding plant |
1st "of those who died by having lost their way while walking through a forest" |
4th goddess Tlazol-teotl |
8th "of women who died in childbirth" |
5th [obliterated] |
7th "of those who died of wounds" |
6th white death-god with warriors' striping |
6th "of those who died in war" |
7th green death-god with leopard's paws [leopards swipe fish out from the water with their paws] |
5th "of those who took their lives by eating tubai poison" (poison used to kill fishes in rivers) |
8th round ornament (worn by youths?) |
4th "of those youth who died before their time" |
CB, pp. 75-76 |
BTL&V, p. 329 |
The Daoist aequivalents to the Tehuacan dippers might be the dipper-constellations.
Somewhat different is the sequence of "fixed stations of destiny" (BW, p. 12) arrived at "Through six doors to the other world"; through perhaps based on the doors instead.
references:-
Codex Borgia
BIJDRAGEN TOT DE TAAL-, LAND-, EN VOLKENKUNDE, Deel 134 (1978), pp. 310-355 Cifford Sather: "The Malevolent Koklir".
BIJDRAGEN TOT DE TAAL-, LAND-, EN VOLKENKUNDE, Deel 121 (1965), pp. 1-57 Tom Harrisson: "Borneo Writing".