Citations:kokob

English citations of kokob

a kind of snake

• 1965, John Eric Sidney Thompson, Preliminary Decipherments of Maya Glyphs:

  […] kokob snakes and the jaguar bite each other (Perez p. 160); the jaguars, the Chac Bob and the puma bite each [other]  […]

• 2014 November 15, Marilyn Masson, Carlos Peraza Lope, Kukulcan's Realm: Urban Life at Ancient Mayapán, University Press of Colorado, →ISBN, page 101:

  "they bite one another, kokob snakes and the jaguars . . . they are greedy for dominion" ( Roys 1962: 44)

• 2010 July 5, Elizabeth A. Newsome, Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World: The Serial Stelae Cycle of "18-Rabbit–God K," King of Copan, University of Texas Press, →ISBN:

  The red tancas-che ["seizure tree"], the white tancas-che, the black tancas-che, the yellow tancas-che, the red kantemo-tree, the white kantemo, the black kantemo, the yellow kantemo. These were your trees, you, macaw-seizure. The red has-max-tree, the white has-max, the black has-max, the yellow has-max, the red kokob-max ["kokob-snake-monkey"], etc.; the red nicte-max ["erotic monkey"], etc. These are your trees; erotic-seizure, monkey-seizure, […] (Roys 1965:4).

  • (the latter two quoting from)
    1970, Ralph Loveland Roys, The Maya Katun Prophecies of the Books of Chilam Balam, Series I:

    They bite one another, kokob snakes and the jaguars. Then they bite one another, the comedian opossums.

mentions with definition or details:

• 1854, Charles Fleming, Royal Dictionary, English and French and French and English, page 670:

  KOKOB, s. [a venomous serpent of America] kokob, m.

• 1931, Ralph Loveland Roys, The Ethno-botany of the Maya:

  ... snakes called Kokob, 3 or 4 yards long and thick as a lance; they are very poisonous. Anyone who is bitten exudes blood from the whole body and from the eyes, as with the Taxinchan, and the Indians use the same remedy [as for Taxinchan].

mentions or uses as proper nouns, of the sense "owl":

• 1925, Woman's World, page 32:

  ... Kokob, the little brown owl, was the best friend of Pezpeza. No matter where he went, always, Kokob followed after, and when danger came, his feathered friend would fly on ahead and signal back to Pezpeza if there were enemies […]

• 1903, Field Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Series, page 13:

  ... Kokob (Burrowing Owl) clan.

use with unclear sense, mentioned alongside both birds and snakes, could be either:

• 1870, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant in the East, page 54:

  The pennated, repent and ferine entities of the boscage, are ousels, shellducks, ganza, ortolans, cryals, leverocks, aspics, kokobs, mariputs, castors, cervine, lupine, vulpine and ursine quadrupeds.