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muchos brazos "), probably so called from another meaning of 

 mea;, the beard, often used metaplioricall_y, as w tnex kin^ the 

 rays (beard) of the sun {Diccionario de San Francisco, MS.) 

 The change of the .vowel, in mex to mix, is not unusual in Maya. 

 Pio Perez in his Dictionary gives, for instance, the old form 

 benel to modern binel,2iem to pirn, etc. 



On the other hand, we find in various dialects of the Maya 

 the i retained in the word for "beard;" as Huasteca, itzim ; 

 Chaneabal, itzimal ; Zotzil, iaim, etc.; thus proviiig the identity 

 of the two forms. 



This identification brings this da}' name into direct relation 

 to the Zapotec and Nahuatl names for the first of the Calendar. 

 In the former chiylla, sometimes given as pi-chilla, is apparently 

 from bi-chilla-beoo, water-lizard (lagarto de agua) ; and the Xa- 

 huatl, cipactli certainl}^ means some fish or fish-like animal, a 

 sword-fish, alligator, or the like, though exactly which is not 

 certain, and probabl}^ the reference with them was altogether 

 mythical. 



The Second Day. 



1. Maya, iJc ; 2. Tzental, ig7i ; .3. Quiche-Cak.. ik' ; 4. Zapotec, gut, or 

 nil, or laa, or laala, or Uaa ; 5. Nahuatl, ehecatl. 



The three words of the Maj-a dialects all mean air, wind, 

 breath, and, metaiihoricall}^, life, spirit, soul. So also does the 

 Nahuatl ehecatl, and indeed it may be questioned whether the 

 Maya word is not a form of the radical e/i'c of the Nahuatl. 



The Zapotec offers greater difficulties. In that tongue we 

 have uii, air, wind ; chiie, breath ; which we may bring into re- 

 lation with gui ; and we find guiiebee, wind-and-water cloud 

 (nube con viento 3' agua). Dr. Seler prefers to derive gui from 

 quii, fire, flame, the notion of which is often associated with 

 wind. Ni is apparently the radical of nici, to grow, increase, 

 gain life ; while laa or laala is a word with man}' meanings, as, 

 warmth ; heat ; reason or intelligence. The sense common to 

 all these expressions seems to be that of life, vitalit}-. 



The Third Day. 



1. Maya, akbal ; 2. Tzental, votan ; 3. Quiche-Cak.. akbal ; 4. Zapotec, 

 gueUi ; 5. Nahuatl, calli. 



The Maya akbal is a shortened form of alahhal, to grow dark, 

 to become night. The Cakchiquel alhal signifies dark and, by 



