Ritual of the Bacabs

Preface ......Page 3
Introduction ......Page 5
I The words for jaguar-macaw-seizure (balam-mo-tancas) ; the madness (coil) of the seizure ......Page 29
II The words for traveler seizure (ah-oc-tancas) ......Page 32
III The incantation for macaw-seizure (mo-tancas) and convulsions (nunil-tancas) ; also traveler-seizure and fever ......Page 35
IV The words for erotic (nicte) seizure ......Page 37
V The words for tarantula-eruption (chiuoh-kak, tarantula-seizure (chiuoh-tancas) ......Page 38
VI The lewd madness of seizure (u coil tancas) ......Page 43
VII The words for kapetkin-wasp-seizure, its incantations ......Page 44
VIII The words for asthma (coc); an incantation (sian) for asthma ......Page 49
X The words for hunpedzkin-reptile-seizure ......Page 55
XI The words for gout (chibal oc) ......Page 58
XII The words for hunpedzkin-vein (or -humor); its incantations ......Page 60
XIV The words for eruptions, fever, seizures ......Page 61
XV The incantation for red anal-kak-ulcers ......Page 63
XVI An eruption on sick people ......Page 65
XVII Snake-pulsation of the abdomen (can-tippte), the words for it ......Page 66
XVIII Rattle-snake (ahau-can) in the abdomen of a man ......Page 68
XIX Kanch'ah-snake in the abdomen of a man ......Page 69
XXI Snake-pulsation of the abdomen of a man; very good ......Page 70
XXII Kanpedzkin (wasp?) at the head of a man ......Page 72
XXIII The words for kanpetkin-wasp poisoning ......Page 74
XXV The words for cooling water, when it is on the fire ......Page 75
XXVI To cool what has been heated by drilling ......Page 76
XXVII The words for fire biting on wood ......Page 77
XXVIII The words for a burn; the charm for fire biting on wood ......Page 78
XXX The words of the incantation of the spider ......Page 79
XXXI The words for the scorpion (sinan), when it stings ......Page 80
XXXII A worm in the tooth, a fiery worm ......Page 81
XXXIII This is a worm in the tooth also ......Page 82
XXXV Incantation for the placenta ......Page 84
XXXVI The words for cooling a pit-oven ......Page 86
XXXVII The birth of the flint ......Page 87
XXXVIII The words for an obstruction of the breathing passages ......Page 90
XXXIX Obstruction of the breathing passages also ......Page 91
XLI The words for the bones; three-day bone [-debility] ......Page 97
XLII The words for calling a deer [untranslated] ......Page 98
Transcription of the Maya text ......Page 99
Glossary of Plant Names ......Page 144
Glossary of Fauna Names ......Page 159
Glossary of Proper Names ......Page 173
Appendix A: Intrusive Material in a Different Hand ......Page 192
Appendix B: Malevolent Magic ......Page 196
Appendix C: A Modern Witch Story ......Page 202
Correlation of Manuscript Pages ......Page 205
References ......Page 207
Index ......Page 215
Spider-snake-macaw-wind seizure (Maya drawing) facing page ......Page 93
Benito Cauich, yerbatero of Piste ......Page 94
Typical page of the Ritual of the Bacabs ......Page 111
Intrusive material in a different hand ......Page 112