Almanac 12 (pp. 14a-15a) 



Tl. (p. I4a) The Maize god with a maize head dress 



points a finger. 



Almanac 13 (p. 15a) See Almanac 23 for similar motifs. Tl 

 God D dives earthwards as though in water. From one foot 

 there emerge two cacao pods and two more are attached to an 

 elbow. Thompson (1972) associates this figure with the diving 

 bee god. It is worthy of note that from his back a peduncle 

 and bud of the hallucinogenic Nymphaea amp/a ascends. 

 Thompson takes this to be Theuhruma Cacao again, but it is 

 unlikely, as cacao has no peduncle but is sessile and attached 

 to the branches of the cacao tree. It is consistently portrayed 

 in this manner. 



T2. A diving death god has cordate leaved vegetation 



replacing his right foot suggesting the leaves of both 

 Turbina corynihosa (L.) Raf. and Ipomoea violacea L. 

 Both plants bear seeds containing amides of lysergic 

 acid and are hallucinogenic. The relationship of this to 

 the creation story is recapitulated in Almanac 23 as it is 

 presented here. The diving god and Nymphaea will 

 appear in a later paper. 



Almanac 15 (pp. 5b 6b) Divinatory 



Tl. According to Thompson (1972) the presentation is of 



the chacah or gumbolimbo tree {Bursera Simaruha L.) 



which is being drilled to produce fire. 

 T2. Death god with the same drill and wood. 

 T3. God D with the same fire drill and wood. 

 T4. God Q with the same fire drill and wood. 



Almanac 18 (p. 9b) Divinatory 



Tl. The maize god squats before God D. Emerging from 



before the forehead of the God D is a pedicellate water 

 lily. 



Gl. 5. The maize god. 



GI. I. Abundance of maize. 



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