NAVIGATION TIP:

Use the Firefox browser with the CoolPreviews add on. CoolPreviews will give a magnifying glass icon at every link when you put your cursor on the link. Click on the icon and it will open a separate, smaller window with the definition of the term in it. You can either lock the window by clicking the padlock icon in the top bar of the little window, or move your cursor off the window and it will automatically close. This is almost as good as mouseovers.

What’s New at the Glossary?

10-31-08

The complete list of words in the second edition can be downloaded here in .pdf format. I have begun work on a third edition.

6-11-08

Meg Beeler has graciously consented to let me mirror her wonderful article (the only one on the internet at this writing) about despacho ceremonies. You can find the article in Appendix J.

I have been engrossed in writing my blog. However, I came across some video clips that were irresistible and placed them in the glossary. They can be found at Llullaillaco, Tiwanako, Machu Picchu, puma, guanaco, condor, bufeo colorado and jaguar.

2-20-08

Server troubles continue, although they are rapidly handled. Now the "C" page is uncooperative. I expect it to be fixed within a few hours.

There is now a new page for links to other web sites that are on this subject. If you have a web site and would like a link, please contact me so we can discuss it. Use the link at the bottom of this page for contact info.

2-6-08

Something strange is happening with the following pages: A, Image Sources, M and Text Sources. They disappeared when I went to replace them with a newer version and the server will not let me overwrite or do anything. I will get it fixed some time this afternoon California time. My apologies.

The links with more than one word in the term should now work. Again, please let me know if you find any broken links. Thanks.

1-27-08

After many hours of very detailed work, the cross-references are now hot links. I wish I could have done mouseovers that would open a little window with a nutshell definition, but I went to the quick-and-dirty, reverse engineering school of HTML (i.e., taught myself via trial and error by deconstructing someone else's web site). My skills aren't up to the java script needed for mouseovers.

If you were watching, you will notice that in July of last year I began the process of converting the cross-reference terms into hot links and estimated it would take a month. Boy, was that ever naive optimism. However, it is done and should make navigating the site much easier.

There are many new terms in this edition. You can download the word list for the first edition in .pdf format here. Check back to this page for the word list of the second edition. Now that I have posted this new edition, I am going to indulge my Muse with some writing. When I return to the glossary, I will update the word list and post it on this page.

There is a new collection of specific information -- Appendix I -- which has a table of the different degrees of shamanic perception and characteristics of each. Since this subject is so important to our work, I created one for myself years ago and have decided to share it through this web site.

Oops. Who knew? Apparently named links do not work if they contain more than one word. If you click on a term of more than one word, you will go to the page -- but not the spot on the page -- where the word is. I will be fixing this in the next few days.

At the bottom of the page of Appendix A are two links to hear native Quechua speakers pronouncing words and sounds. This way you can have a little language lab at home.

You can honor this work, our work, and help me out by letting me know of any typos, broken links, out-of-orderness or other offenses to word-nerdiness that you come across. As an editor, I always tell writers not to do the final proofreading of the final draft, but get someone else to do it. Another person has fresher eyes and does not know what is supposed to be there, only seeing what is there. So, as you look through the glossary, you are proofreading for me. Please let me know what you find. I am sure it is there. While doing this second edition I came across too many errors and omissions in the first edition to please my Virgo soul.

8-6-07

Appendix H, The Timeline of the Inca Empire and Its Cultural Progenitors, is now posted. Still working on those links for cross-reference terms.

7-18-07

Dear Readers, I have begun the unbelievably tedious project of making the blue cross-reference terms within definitions into hot links. This is not a quick process, so it will probably take me well over one month to get it done. Fortunately, I am a Virgo! Nitpicking is in my nature. (My husband is a very patient and tolerant man.)

Also on the horizon, many new terms. I already have 12 pages. They will go up right after I am done with the links. I realize trying to navigate the site without these links is a big of a chore, so bear with me. (Aren't you spoiled? LOL)

Right margin hack worked. A Siberian friend who keeps an internet ISP up and running tells me I need to learn CSS. OK, Serge, will do. Anyone who lives where he gets icicles hanging from his nose in winter surely would not steer me wrong!

Oops, my bad. Although I added the page, I neglected to add the link in the alphabet link column to the left. So go see the P' and Ph words.

We now have a custom search engine. Many thanks to Google for this free service. Because the site is non-profit, they do not require that we host advertizing. Thank you, Google. The search results will display on a Google page. From there, you can follow a results link back to the glossary. Or you can hit the "previous page" button on your browser to get back into the glossary. Happy hunting!

6-23-07

    Welcome, welcome. If you are coming for a repeat visit, then it’s good to see you again.

    There is a dramatic new aesthetic to the glossary. HTML skills are improving, altho still have a ways to go. Now if I can only figure out how to set a right margin. It was so much easier on a typewriter!

6-13-07 The Original Word List

The original word list is available as a .pdf download if you click here . Until I learn how to bring up cross-reference definitions with a mouseover, and how to put in a search function, you can use the word list to search for terms via your .pdf reader (such as Adobe Acrobat). Future additions and revisions will be listed on this page.