A primer of Mayan hieroglyphics / by Daniel G. Brinton.

  • Daniel Garrison Brinton
Date:
1895]
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Credit: A primer of Mayan hieroglyphics / by Daniel G. Brinton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    toxic herbs, often led to temporary mania; and the deity of the Milky Way may have presided over these rites. The moon in opposition was referred to as u nupptanba, from nupp, opposed, opposite. When in conjunction, the expression was hunbalan u, “the rope of the moon,” or, “the moon roped.” When it was in eclipse, it was cJiibil u, “ the moon bitten,” the popular story being that it was bitten by a kind of ant called xnlab. An eclipse of the sun was also chibil kin, “ the sun bit- ten ; ” but more frequently the phrase was tupul u inch kin, or, tupan n. nick kin, “the eye of the day is covered over,” or, “ shut up.” It is useful to record such expressions, as they sometimes suggested the graphic representations of the occur- rences.1 1 In Cod. Peres., pp. 18, 19, the sun is shown bitten by birds, snakes, etc. We probably have in this a reference to an eclipse. On a later page I shall show the hieroglyph of the double loop of the rope, which probably signifies the moon in conjunction.
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