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16. IVatic, or Qatic. — This is explained in a note to the Cal- 

 endar as '' pasante 6 siembra comun." The derivation suggested 

 would be from k''aloh, a banquet, a festival, and to invite to such. 



1 7. Izcal, or Itzcal. — Translated in the Calendar as " the sea- 

 son of sprouts or of throwing out shoots " (retoiiar 6 echar 

 primipollos). The word is undoubtedly^ the Tsahuatl Itzcalli, 

 the name of the eighteenth month in the Mexican year. Its sig- 

 nification is " renewal," or " resurrection," or " growth ;" this is 

 indicated in the application of the word in the Cakchiquel Cal- 

 endar. 



18. ParicJie, or Payrich^. — " The season for covering, in order 

 to protect one's self from the cold," says a note to the Calendar. 

 The derivation is from par ah, the covering of palm leaves used 

 to protect a person from the rain ; and che, tree or wood. The 

 same idea is conveyed in the Tzental month-name 3Iuc. Gavar- 

 rete's explanation, "firewood," from c/;e, wood, and parquii, 

 bushes or small trees, is not tenable. 



THE QUICHE MONTHS. 



Although there was little difierence between the Quiche and 

 Cakchiquel dialects, their month-names varied in several in- 

 stances. Our sources of information concerning the Quiche 

 names are authentic, scA^eral of their Calendars dating from the 

 seventeenth centurj- having been preserved. From these Gavar- 

 rete published a list in the work alread}'^ referred to, and I have 

 in m^- possession a copy of a native Calendar in the Quiche dia- 

 lect written about 1722. 



Months of tlie Quiche Calendar. 



