[Aztlan] Left hand

[D. M. Urquidi]

Robert:

It seems to me that anything coming out of Xibala, then would come from the west, just like the Popol Vuh indicates. Interesting.

Dea

D. M. Urquidi
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--- On Fri, 5/1/09, Robert Hall <robertleonardhall at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: Robert Hall <robertleonardhall at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: [Aztlan] Left hand
> To: Aztlan at lists.famsi.org
> Date: Friday, May 1, 2009, 9:22 AM
> Listeros,
>      I found Diane Winters comments very pertinent to
> some of my own interests. I am in process of writing an
> article in which I briefly mention Maya "mirrored"
> glyphic texts as possible archaeological examples of reverse
> speech. Reverse or contrary behavior, including reverse
> speech has associations with the underworld, death, and the
> night sky as a manifestation  of  the underworld. The most
> familiar example south of the border is the reverse speech
> associated  with the Huichol peyote pilgrimmage. In this
> case reverse speech is not initiated until the passing of a
> "cloud gate," which suggests a symbolic entrance
> into the (night?) sky. Among the Pawnees the direction of
> certain rites are reversed when they represent events that
> once took place in the night sky. Frank Lipp indicates
> that "movements of personnel in Mixe ritual is in a
> sinistral fashion, starting with the east, except for those
> carried out for Mihku', the lord of the underworld,
>  which are in a clockwise movement" (The Mixe of
> Oaxaca, U of Texas Press, 1991, p. 57). Bob Hall
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