Rig Veda Americanus: Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans

Contents

1. 1The Hymn of Huitzilopochtli6 verses
2. 2The War Song of the Huitznahuac7 verses
3. 3The Hymn of Tlaloc10 verses
4. 4Hymn to the Mother of the Gods8 verses
5. 5Hymn to Chimalipan in Parturition2 verses
6. 6Hymn to Ixcoçauhqui6 verses
7. 7Hymn of Mixcoatl6 verses
8. 8Hymn to Xochipilli6 verses
9. 9Hymn to Xochiquetzal2 verses
10. 10Hymn to Amimitl4 verses
11. 11Hymn of Olontecutli6 verses
12. 12Hymn to Ayopechcatl4 verses
13. 13Hymn to Cihuacoatl8 verses
14. 14This is the Hymn which they sang every eight years when they fasted on bread and water12 verses
15. 15Hymn of the High Priest of Xipe Totec4 verses
16. 16Hymn to Chicomecoatl2 verses
17. 17Hymn to Tezcatzoncatl Totochtin4 verses
18. 18The Hymn of Atlaua6 verses
19. 19Hymn to Macuilxochitl5 verses
20. 20Hymn to Yacatecutli4 verses

Nearest to the Papers

The passages of this work and the paragraphs of the Papers that are nearest to each other in meaning, as the API compares them.

• Aztec Hymn 4.7-845%Thus, thus, you see her to be an ever-fresh model of liberality toward all flesh. And as you see the goddess of the earth do to the wild beasts, so also does she toward the green herbs and the fishes.144:5.66At Gilboa and in the DecapolisAnd the infinite love that is gracious to every creature.
• Aztec Hymn 15.1-344%The nightly drinking, why should I oppose it? Go forth and array yourselves in the golden garments, clothe yourselves in the glittering vestments. My god descended upon the water, into the beautiful glistening surface; he was as a lovely water cypress, as a beauteous green serpent; now I have left behind me my suffering. I go forth, I go forth about to destroy, I, Yoatzin; my soul is in the cerulean water; I am seen in the golden water; I shall appear unto mortals; I shall strengthen them for the words of war!162:4.3At the Feast of TabernaclesSeventy bullocks were sacrificed during the feast, the symbol of the seventy nations of heathendom. The ceremony of the outpouring of the water symbolized the outpouring of the divine spirit. This ceremony of the water followed the sunrise procession of the priests and Levites. The worshipers passed down the steps leading from the court of Israel to the court of the women while successive blasts were blown upon the silvery trumpets. And then the faithful marched on toward the Beautiful Gate, which opened upon the court of the gentiles. Here they turned about to face westward, to repeat their chants, and to continue their march for the symbolic water.
• Aztec Hymn 20.443%Now I go to my beautiful house, there to eat my food, and to drink of the water, going to where the sand begins.48:6.11The Morontia LifeI shall not, in this Divine Presence, want for food nor thirst for water.

This edition

Translator

Daniel G. Brinton

Year

1890

Tradition

Aztec (Nahua)

Rights

Public domain in the United States

Source

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