Dogon Yurugu-series = MesoAmerican day-signs [in reverse sequence]

p.

#

Dogon (W&DW)

#

MesoAmerican etc.

171

24

"the "diviner" insect with its wagging head." [preying MANTis]

 

[MANTo led her blind father, just as Kedalion led the blind Orion.]

171

23

"bladder ... urinates"

 

[urine-born (GM 41.f) hero Ourion was overcome by (GM 41.d) Apollon, who was (GM 21.3) Smintheus the mouse.]

169

22

"mouse"

 

["field mouse" praecedeth "moon beetles" in the list of GMP IV.2441-2621]

168

21

"clock beetle"

1

Imox "beetle"

165

20

"dry"

2

Ik "wind" (to dry-out the primordial mud? Y, Ch)

164

19

"menstruating woman" (kept sequestered in house?)

3

Calli "house"

163

18

"Night"

3

Akbal "night"

162

17

na`y = Hemitheconyx caudicinctus, a gray lizard

4

Cuetzpallin "lizard"

160

16

"python"

5

C^ic-c^an "twist-snake"

159

15

"death"

6

Cimi "death"

158

14

"work"

7

Manik, hand (for working?)

157

13

"stirrer" for stirring cooking food

8

Tochtli "rabbit" [Buddhist/Chinese: stirring elixir; or, cooked own self]

156

12

"water"

9

Atl "water"

153

11

"Fox"

10

Oc "coyote"

152

10

"jaw"

11

Malinalli "jawbone"

150

9

"crowd"

13

Ben "reed" (the people were crowded into a reed in the Navaho deluge-myth)

149

8

"termites" (eaters of wood)

14

Ocelotl (eater of flesh: cf. Maori offering, to humans about to be eaten, of rotten wood, M&K, p. 189)

148

7

"bird"

15

Quauhtli "eagle"

147

6

"womb"

16

Cozcaquauhtli "vulture" (Aiguptian vulture-hieroglyph signifieth "mother", according to Horapollon, C&NA 96.0981)

146

6

"bent" pods

17

Ollin (depicted as angles)

146

5

"stone"

18

Edznab "flint"

145

4

"tortoise"

19

[Pipil] Ayotl "tortoise"

144

3

"stammer", "stutter"

 

Cauac: dynastic dragon [cf. the dragon Ladon, who was "able to assume various tones of voice" (DH)]

143

2

"twin"

20

Hunahpu (who was a twin)

142

1

"men-navels"

20

Xochitl "flower" {cf. Brahma, born from navel-flower (B)}

references:-

W&DW = Genevie`ve Calame-Griaule (tr. from the French by Deirdre LaPin): Words and the Dogon World. Institute for the Study of Human Issues, Philadelphia, 1986.

GM = Robert Graves: The Greek Myths. 1955.

GMP = Hans Dieter Betz: The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. U. of Chicago Pr, 1986.

Y = John R. Swanton: Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians. 1929. (Yuc^i) http://sacred-texts.com/nam/se/mtsi/mtsi092.htm

Ch = James Mooney: Myths of the Cherokee. 1900. http://sacred-texts.com/nam/cher/motc/motc001.htm

M&K = George Grey: Polynesian Mythology. 1854. (Maru-tuahi & Kahurere-moa) http://sacred-texts.com/pac/grey/grey18.htm

C&NA = http://www.leidenuniv.nl/nino/aeb96/aeb96_9.html

DH = http://www.theoi.com//Ther/DrakonHesperios.html

B = http://www.webonautics.com/mythology/brahma.html