Esotericism of the Popol Vuh — Raphael Girard

Appendices A and B

Appendix A

A comparative list of words for food plants in Central and South American language groups which proceed from equivalent roots in one or another of them.

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(the phonetic mutation ki < ik is regular in languages derived from the proto-Maya, as has been shown with the word for sun: ik < ki.)


Appendix B

Comparative list showing the parallelism between words for maize or food plant and mother, father, and grandfather or ancestor in generically related Central and South American languages.

Etymologically related, with the root pa, ba, opa, aba (tortilla, maize leaf, and maize in Chortí, Mame, Cuna, and Chibcha), we have the following words:



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