T5. A Chac with a planting drill walks with an open hand 



as though planting seed. 



Gl. 4. Abundance of maize. 



T6. A Chac with a retrorse water lily head dress is seated in 



a rain that falls from celestial bands. 

 Gl. 4. Woe to the maize. 



T7. A Chac dives from a celestial band with an axe in his 



hand in a manner similar to previously figured diving 

 personages. 

 Gl. 3. Maize god. 

 Gl. 4. Abundance of maize. 



T9. An anthropomorphized toad-dog dives from a celestial 



sky, Thompson interprets this figure as a dog for rea- 

 son of the associated second glyph "pek" which may 

 mean either dog or unfavorable weather. The form, the 

 long extended tongue and the water lily flowing up 

 from the head all suggest a toad. The large dark patches 

 may be death patches or an attempt to further reinforce 

 the toad motif. We must not rule out a hybridization ol' 

 forms. 

 Gl. 4. Woe to the maize seed. 



TIO, A bacab is seated in a conch shell and water is all about 



him. He wears one frontal protruding water lily. A 

 more stylized water lily is seen on the back of the conch 

 shell. In the latter instance the conch shell with a water 

 lily on it was regularly associated with the old God N. 



Til. A Chac wearing a complex head dress with a maize 



glyph and a frontal water lily sits cross legged in the 

 rain. His mantle suggests the shell of a turle (this is 

 attested to in Gl. 1.). 



Almanac 62 (pp. 41b-43b) 



TL A Chac kneels before a tree and is in the act of cutting it 



down. The base of the swollen tree is the head of a 

 Chac. The suggestion may be that of Chac-ya, the red 

 sapote used in an incantation, (Ritual of the Bacabsj 

 for obstruction of the breathing passages. Calocarpum 



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