Dogon "Nommo series" (W&DW)

Chinese lunar mansions (AChChSh)

alphabet

p.

#

speech

p.

#

hsiu

letter

111

1

"respiration, ... wind"

98

7^th

"govern the eight winds"

{[Skt.] Vayu "wind-god"}

111

2

"Twins"

8^th

"conferring of titles"

Taw = "mark" of Qayin (who had a twin-sister -- LB, p. 56)

112

3

"blacksmith ... forge";

8^th

"Machinery"

Res^ "net"{: cf. net forged by the blacksmith Hephaistos}

gray monkey.

9^th

"bridges" {cf. bridge built, for monkey-army, to Lanka -- AB}

Qop "monkey"

113

4

cricket; black rice in ponds

S.ade^ "cricket"

114

5

"Women and girls spinning cotton"

99

10^th

"Damsel", "textile crafts"

115

6

"the soul of a person about to die"

11^th

"Emptiness"

116

7

"wondrous speech"

Peh "mouth"

116

8

"roof set on large pillars" (gazebo)

12^th

"Rooftop",

<ayin "eye" {cf. gazebo}

117

9

"markets"

"market"

119

10

"a game ... for fun"

13^th

"resort ... for relaxation"

121

11

"for naming ... the sheep" {cf. sheep-skin vellum?}

100

14^th

"library"

Lamed "teach"

122

12

"attack"

15^th

"ward off attack"

Kap "palm of hand"

124

13

"coops"

16^th

"prison"

125

14

"stomach"

17^th

"Stomach"

125

15

"counting ... fingers"

Yod "hand"

126

16

"to lie flat on one's belly"

18^th

"Stopping-Place"

T.e^t, cf. /t.vat/ ‘fasting’ (S 2908)

128

"journey"

101

18+½

"Street"

130

17

[p. 128: "Circumcision"] monitor-lizard HIT by lightning cast down

19^th

"Net" {Kic^e` Kat "net" = Aztec "lizard" day-sign, assigned to male genitalia -- of Tezcatli-poca, CB p. 17; of Macuil-xochitl, CB p. 72}

H.ET, cf. /h.tat/ ‘casting down’ (S 2866)

132

18

wart-hog, alias dictus gnu {= (etymologically) [Skt.] hanu "jaw"}; "butter and rub it all over their bodies."

102

20^th

"Turtle Beak"

{Hellenic] /zeta/ must be from [<ibri^] /zayit/ "olive" (yielding oil, for anointing)}

131

"black chick"

Waw {= [Kemetian] "quail chick"}

133

19

"body's ... joints"

21^st

"shoulder"

194, n. 99

"scorpion" {cf. [Aztec] Yaotl, who became a scorpion}

{S^ekem ("shoulder") made law of "marriage by rape"}

134

20

"drinking beer"

103

22^nd

"sharing of ... water"

135

"A live cat is always buried with the dead priest".

23^rd

kuei "ghost"

"sprout up spontaneously ... without any attempt having been made to sow it."

24^th

"carpentry" {the meaning of name of the carpenter Yo^sep is "increasing by one's self"}

136

21

"indoors" {indoors are house-spiders; the spider-goddess Arakhne did embroidery}

104

25^th

"embroidery"

Dalet "door"

137

"cave"; "dung foot"

"bandits" {who often place their loot in a cave -- as in the 1001 Nights}

{in cavernous the realm of Haides, Empousa hath a leg of donkey-manure (Frogs, in EL)}

22

"Compelling ... authority", "lion"

26^th

"Extended Net" {was used to trap lion, GM 123.e: this lion was at Nemea, cf. nomos "law"}

138

23

"deformed"

27^th

"actors" (with whom are grouped deformed persons, in the court-performances of the state of Qin etc.)

Gimel, cf. /gamal/ ‘camel’ (having deformed, humped back)

138-139

"standing on"

28^th

"Chariot Cross-board" (to be stood upon)

Be^t, cf. /bat/ ‘tapetium, stragulum (carpet, rug)’ (LA-L 1:81b)

139

"land ... the fields."

94

1^st

"Farm"

>alep, cf. /ma>alaf/ ‘familiar place’ (LA-L 1:51a)

139

"Resonant" [cf. voicebox in throat?]

96

2^nd

"Neck"

24

"plant"

3^rd

"Root"

196, n. 117

"without its mother experiencing menstruation"

"Imperial Concubines" (repraesenting Daoist goddesses who never undergo menstruation)