p.

myth

2

"when that women who is called Neso`Ge was menstruating, she went with her husband to look for the chicks of a parrot. The husband climbed a tree and began to grab the chicks and throw them down to his wife ... . He came down out of the tree ... . ... She killed her husband and instantly began to eat him. ... She had her husband’s head, and ... her yika ("bag"), she put the head inside of it. ...

3

Then ... all of the people got inside the tree. ... Neso`Ge put her fingernail inside [the tree], she died because Kakadela`chi>i cut off her [finger]nail. ... After she was dead, ... tobacco and squash came out of ... Her body".

p.

myth

16

"In~aguare` ... arrived at a large pool of water next to which was a big kuma:ka tree. From one of the cottonwood tree’s branches, a multicolored ara:mari serpent was hanging. The stranger ... cut the serpent ..., and when the segments fell into the water, they turned into aima:ris [huge fishes]."

17

When the human eaters of these aima:ri-s had fallen asleep, from their hammock those eaters "fell and were transformed into ... (Dycotiles labiatus) ... the peccaries without a collar ... called pa:sal because of their white beards."

p.

myth

20

"two sisters were in love with a tapir. ... [One brother observed this,]

21

the brothers caught him and cut him into pieces and left the body in the same place." One sister became a manatee (yara:wa) in the river; the other sister became a dolphin (iririkula) in the sea.

p.

myth

24

"This happened before the big flood." While huntsman was for 7 days absent in the forest, his 2 female pets, a parrot and a bitch, removed their skins, became women, feeling "cold", "went out for wood and started a fire." The man discovered them.

25

"This happened when the trees talked."

p.

lett.

syll.

meaning

76

A

a>h

name of a fish species

A

ha

water

A

ak

tongue

B

be

path

B

be

animal pad print

C,

zec

a month-name

T

t>k

wasp

E

he

egg

H

he>eb

tied bunch

I

i

larvae in maize

76-7

C

ca

comb; grinder

77

K

grindstone

L & M

?

N

ne

tail

O

oc

collection; entry

O

?

P

pek

hound

P>

p>uuc

person’s chest

Cu

ku

god

Ku

ku

nest

X

xay

handful

X

xe

vomit

77-8

U

uo

moon (tongue)

U

lock of hair

Z

painted vase

The Huasteca Indians passed through Pa`nuco. Then Nan[a]huatzin plucked out his eyes {cf. "if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out"} in sorrow and flung them far away. One of them fell in these parts and the other disappeared somewhere ... . The eye which fell here is now borne by the ceremonial dancers who wear it on their head-dress. It is represented by a mirror. ["ceremonial dancers among the Huasteca ... wear the small round mirrors over their foreheads’ (p. 119, n. 5)] The other eye fell ... into a river at the confluence of the Papaloapan and Coatzacoalcos Rivers ..., and when this world comes to an end, the dancers will have reached the other eye of our god."

Now the Huasteca Indians will not rest until they find the other eye of our god ... . But when we succeed in finding the other, then it will be the end of the world and we shall be living in the south of Mexico where the large stone heads are."

p.

myth

109

"the Moon comes down and makes love and has [sexual] intercourse in order to produce her first menstruation." [Huasteca of Hidalgo : "It is necessary for the moon to come down to earth in the form of a rabbit to produce a virgin’s first menstruation." (p. 120, n. 17)]

110

"If the Moon was extinguished, ... only the women would exist."

p. 137 /mauli/ "fireflies"; "basket which could be filled with large tropical fireflies and thus utilized as a lantern"

{cf. [Hawai>ian] /mauli/ "heart"; /mauli>awa/ "hiccough" (heartbeat and hiccough are each pulsating, much like flireflies’ luminosity)}

p.

location of informants

myth

94

Chancaray in Ayacucho

"Inkarri` is the son of the Mother Moon and Father Sun. Inkarri` tied up Father Sun so that time might last."

95

Huamanga in Ayacucho

The Inka’s woman was Colla, so they called her Collari`."

Puquio in Ayacucho

"the father of Inkarri` was the Sun."

96

Pulcan in Ancash

"Inkarri` as a precocious child who "began to walk when he was five days old" and who, "after eight days began to speak." He had women with whom he travelled in the country dancing to the sound of harp and violin. {these terms for stringed instruments are actually applied to types of drums – "The wooden drum that they use ... is called the Violin ..., and the other, larger drum is called the Guitar." (ShT, p. 74)} "When the King wanted to build a house, he gave orders to the stones, which by themselves formed into houses"".

97

Isua

"on the Aqnu mountain where Inkarri` tied up the Sun, there is an abundance of ... llamans, alpacas ..., and ... chicha ... drinks boil over there."

Huamanga

"to construct a bridge to Cuzco. Ri Inka "brought together all the stones," which by themselves arranged into a bridge during a single night."

Andamarca

"Inkarri` displays powers ..., enclosing the wind in a cave, as well as ice and hail. He also invented, in Qelqata, chicha ... and fire-water, which is still boiling there like clear water. ... the

98

staff was thrown ... . As the staff fell, it divided Inkpallata mountain ... . Inkarri[`] also made the waterfall at Inkapacha, and with a whip gathered stones to build buildings and some tables in Osqonta."

Chancaray in Ayacucho

"Inkarri` ... made stones walk, and began building a bridge".

Huamanga

"it was Inkarri` who repaired his wasted sandals in Wataqa".

Puquio

"Inkarri` imprisons the wind in the great Osqonta mountain, and, with ... hoops, the sun in Osqonta, the lesser mountain, in order that the day might last ... . He drove stones to the mountain tops, ordering them by whiplash. ... "On the pampa of Qellcata ... is boiling, chicha, and firewater".

99

Collaguas in Arequipa

"Inkarri` ... is the cause of the construction of dry-stone walls and roads by themselves".