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Rig Veda Americanus (Illustrated)
Sacred songs of the ancient Mexicans, with a gloss in NahuatlBy Daniel G. Brinton
Length1h 21m
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In accordance with the general object of this series of volumes--which is to furnish materials for study rather than to offer completed studies--I have prepared for this number the text of the most ancient authentic record of American religious lore. From its antiquity and character, I have ventured to call this little collection the RIG VEDA AMERICANUS, after the similar cyclus of sacred hymns, which are the most venerable product of the Aryan mind.
As for my attempted translation of these mystic chants I offer it with the utmost reserve. It would be the height of temerity in me to pretend to have overcome difficulties which one so familiar with the ancient Nahuatl as Father Sahagun intimated were beyond his powers. All that I hope to have achieved is, by the aid of the Gloss--and not always in conformity to its suggestions--to give a general idea of the sense and purport of the originals.
The desirability of preserving and publishing these texts seems to me to be manifest. They reveal to us the undoubtedly authentic spirit of the ancient religion; they show us the language in its most archaic form; they preserve references to various mythical cycli of importance to the historian; and they illustrate the alterations in the spoken tongue adopted in the esoteric dialect of the priesthood. Such considerations will, I trust, attract the attention of scholars to these fragments of a lost literature.
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GenreHistory
Length1 hr 21 mins
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Publish dateAug 3, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
2INTRODUCTION
3I. THE HYMN OF HUITZILOPOCHTLI
4II. WAR SONG OF THE HUITZNAHUAC
5III. HYMN OF TLALOC
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6IV. HYMN TO THE ALL-MOTHER
7V. HYMN TO THE VIRGIN-MOTHER
8VI. HYMN TO THE GOD OF FIRE
9VII. HYMN OF MIXCOATL
10VIII. HYMN TO THE GOD OF FLOWERS
11IX. HYMN TO THE GODDESS OF ARTISTS
12X. HYMN TO THE GOD OF FISHING
13XI. HYMN OF THE OTOMI LEADER
14XII. HYMN TO THE GODDESS OF CHILDBIRTH
15XIII. HYMN TO THE MOTHER OF MORTALS
16XIV. HYMN AT A FAST
17XV. HYMN TO A NIGHT-GOD
18XVI. HYMN TO THE GODDESS OF FOOD
19XVII. HYMN TO THE GODS OF WINE
20XVIII. HYMN TO THE MASTER OF WATERS
21XIX. HYMN TO THE GOD OF FLOWERS
22XX. HYMN TO THE GOD OF MERCHANTS
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