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) |
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1. ido-bird (omen-bird) |
2. "bad its fate" (A&ACS, p. 156) |
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2. a [land-]slide |
(:10) 1st |
pig {they see well at night, WhG} |
3. Akbal "night" |
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3. rolling stone {one was rolled by Deva-datta: cf. Datta-atreya, inventor of books} |
2. |
4. "learned man" (A&ACS, p. 156) |
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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} |
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5. hikot-bird |
6. |
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2. deer |
3rd |
deer |
2. deer |
1. deer |
4-5. deer |
7. Mazatl "deer" |
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4th |
squirrel / otter |
8. Tochtli "rabbit" |
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6. rainbow |
squirrel / otter |
9. Atl "water" |
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9. hound |
5th |
hound |
3. hound |
6. hound |
10. Itzcuintli "hound" |
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14. lion |
6th |
cat |
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7th |
tuwog monkey |
7-8.monkeys |
11. Ozomatli "monkey" |
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7. puktiyaw-bird |
9-11. birds |
12. "thrush" (A&ACS, p. 153) |
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16. pig |
8. a tree [sap from various trees is used by Ifugaw with pig-mandible] |
16. pig |
12. Malinalli / Eb [depicted as] mandible |
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8th |
snake |
2. bamboo [cup for swallowing water] |
17. swallow |
13. Acatl "reed" |
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23. grasshopper |
9. locust |
13. "Beggar" (A&ACS, p. 153) [beggars are said to devour like locusts] |
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10. LIZARD |
9th |
LIZARD |
21. leopard |
14. Ocelotl "ocelot" --{the Maori use lizards for destructive sorcery, as tropical-Amerindians use jaguars} |
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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} |
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12. duliduli-wasp [?"tigerwasp" = hornet] |
[11th] |
baby boy |
22. tiger |
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13. glowworm |
3. male vulture |
1. fire |
16. Cozcaquauhtli "vulture" [who is bringer of fire] |
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27. owl |
14. OWL |
16. [Pipil] Tecolotl "owl" |
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11. bee |
10. bee |
17. Caban "honey" |
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9. mosquito {cf. Iban mosquito-god} |
18. "bleeder", "Bleeder of fevers" (cf. malaria?) eagle (A&ACS, p. 156) |
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28.cricket |
10. flea |
8. flea |
19. Ollin "movement" |
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7. hound |
23. fox |
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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) |
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29. snake |
4. python |
6. python |
5. python |
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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^) |
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3. deer |
10:13 "the sun stood still" [sun is carried by white deer in Codex Borgia] |
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4. squirrel |
10:13 "the moon stayed" [according to the Choctaw, solar eclipses are caused by a squirrel-god (really, by the moon)] |
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3. "rolling stone" |
10:18 "Roll great stones" |
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8. "tree" |
10:26 "five trees" [these are the "five trees" alluded to in the Gospel according to Thomas] |
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12. "wasp" |
24:12 "sent the hornet ..., which drave ... out the ... two kings" (the two named in YHS^< 11:11) |
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13. = [Aztec] Cozca- "necklace" |
11:21 <naq "necklace" |
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[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.