Ifugaw (including backwards) = Meso-American day-signs

45:10-12, 24, 26, 28, 30, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41 "bad omens" (p. 264, fn. 3) at the childbirth by +Bugan daughter of Amtalaw -- 84:10-11 animals (as numbered) successively given birth to by same

13: twin-brethren Balitog & Patal, joint-ventures of: they together killed, dismembered, & ate a __

38:5-8 [55:5-8]; 39:17 animal-saviors (mascots) placed under his own house (etc.) by Wigan, in order to use them to combat (38:9) the Mabaki deities of enemy-tribes

Malay (M&EC, table 42)

45:

84:10-11

84:10-11, 19, 26

13:39-42

39:17 [backwards]

38: [55:]5-8

[backwards]

Chinese (M&EC, table 48)

Aztec (& Yucatec) day-signs

       

1. crocodile

4. crocodile

3. crocodile

1. dragon

1. Cipactli (crocodile)

 

1. ido-bird (omen-bird)

           

2. "bad its fate" (A&ACS, p. 156)

 

2. a [land-]slide

(:10) 1st

pig {they see well at night, WhG}

       

3. Akbal "night"

 

3. rolling stone {one was rolled by Deva-datta: cf. Datta-atreya, inventor of books}

         

2.

4. "learned man" (A&ACS, p. 156)

1. horse {Kentauroi horse-gods were sons of +Nephele "cloud" GM 63.d; 126.b}

4. a cloud {cf. Wic^ol "cloud-snake"}

2nd

feral pig

   

2. feral pig

3. snake

5. C^ic-c^an "twisted snake" {twisty boar-tusks are especially valued in New Guinea}

 

5. hikot-bird

           

6.

2. deer

 

3rd

deer

2. deer

 

1. deer

4-5. deer

7. Mazatl "deer"

   

4th

squirrel / otter

       

8. Tochtli "rabbit"

 

6. rainbow

 

squirrel / otter

       

9. Atl "water"

9. hound

 

5th

hound

 

3. hound

 

6. hound

10. Itzcuintli "hound"

14. lion

 

6th

cat

         
   

7th

tuwog monkey

     

7-8.monkeys

11. Ozomatli "monkey"

 

7. puktiyaw-bird

         

9-11. birds

12. "thrush" (A&ACS, p. 153)

16. pig

8. a tree [sap from various trees is used by Ifugaw with pig-mandible]

         

16. pig

12. Malinalli / Eb [depicted as] mandible

   

8th

snake

 

2. bamboo [cup for swallowing water]

 

17. swallow

13. Acatl "reed"

23. grasshopper

9. locust

           

13. "Beggar" (A&ACS, p. 153) [beggars are said to devour like locusts]

 

10. LIZARD

9th

LIZARD

     

21. leopard

14. Ocelotl "ocelot" --{the Maori use lizards for destructive sorcery, as tropical-Amerindians use jaguars}

 

11. frog {into mouth of frog-deity enter dancing women, in Codex Borgia}

(:11) [10th]

crab

       

15. MEN {cf. [Skt.] +MENaka mountain-goddess(: under mountain is crab-god in Popol Vuh); [Hel.] MAINad women dancing}

 

12. duliduli-wasp [?"tigerwasp" = hornet]

[11th]

baby boy

     

22. tiger

 
 

13. glowworm

   

3. male vulture

1. fire

   

16. Cozcaquauhtli "vulture" [who is bringer of fire]

27. owl

14. OWL

           

16. [Pipil] Tecolotl "owl"

         

11. bee

10. bee

 

17. Caban "honey"

           

9. mosquito {cf. Iban mosquito-god}

 

18. "bleeder", "Bleeder of fevers" (cf. malaria?) eagle (A&ACS, p. 156)

28.cricket

       

10. flea

8. flea

 

19. Ollin "movement"

           

7. hound

23. fox

 
 

15. halakhat bird-of-prey

16. umol bird-of-prey

     

7-9. birds-of-prey

6. bululihiw bird-of-prey

 

20. eagle (A&ACS, p. 156)

29. snake

     

4. python

6. python

5. python

   

30. little snake

     

5. banbanawon worm

5. boa

4. boa

   

{this Ifugaw double system for Amtalaw's daughter's progeny is like the U-gandan double-named clans}

[in mythic history:-]

84:

45:

YHS^<

 

1. IDO

10:1 >doni^- (cognate with >IDDO^)

3. deer

 

10:13 "the sun stood still" [sun is carried by white deer in Codex Borgia]

4. squirrel

 

10:13 "the moon stayed" [according to the Choctaw, solar eclipses are caused by a squirrel-god (really, by the moon)]

 

3. "rolling stone"

10:18 "Roll great stones"

 

8. "tree"

10:26 "five trees" [these are the "five trees" alluded to in the Gospel according to Thomas]

 

12. "wasp"

24:12 "sent the hornet ..., which drave ... out the ... two kings" (the two named in YHS^< 11:11)

 

13. = [Aztec] Cozca- "necklace"

11:21 <naq "necklace"

[bee]

 

11:21 Dbir "honey"

Carlos R. Medina: 106 Ifugao Abu'wab Tales Documented by Frans Lambrecht. Saint Louis U., Baguio City, 2000-2001.

A&ACS = Hugh A. Moran & David H. Kelley: The Alphabet and the Ancient Calendar Signs. 2nd edn., Palo Alto, 1969. [translating from:- Libro de los Libros de Chilam Balam.]

M&EC = Joe D. Stewart: Mesoamerican and Eurasian Calendars. PhD diss., U. of Calgary, 1974. [quoting from:- Skeat: Malay Magic. 1900]

GM = Robert Graves: The Greek Myths. 1955.

WhG = Robert Graves: The White Goddess.