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kings of Oaxaca.” In V 3, Uaxca ahau sets forth Kahkaaxha. In T 2, 
uaxac pek doubtless stands for “the city of Oaxaca, pak, meaning a 
building or walled city. In E 16, is another waxac ahau, and another in 
W 12. In W 15 appears warac tok ob, preceded by can, 4, the whole 
probably being can waxac tox ob, “the four dividers of Oaxaca.” The 
name appears in the same numerical form in many parts of the inscrip- 
tion. 
There is one curious hieroglyphic to which the writer was first led to 
assign a value through the Chinese symbol for a cloud, in Maya, wexyad. 
This is confirmed by its likeness to the hieroglyphic for the month Mol. 
It occurs in E 2,in D 6,and less distinctly in other places. In D 6, it is 
preceded by a comb-like figure that seems to have the phonetic value 
ca, Which Landa’s eleventh letter confirms, and by the representation of 
a foot oc. The reading is ca Ocmuyal, “when Uxmal.” The ca appears 
in another form in the character occupying A, B, I, 2, in which it is pre- 
ceded by ox or 3, between which and ahkauob comes a difficult sign that 
may mean two ends, and be translated by rw/, an end. If so, the first 
hieroglyphic group is ov kaxal ahauob, which can only be ox kuxil 
ahauob, “three inimical chiefs.” The next characters, constituting C1, 
are a central aperture, and a single ball, representing one or un. The 
former probably is intended to represent the navel, and stands for zak, 
the abdomen. It has many forms, as in A 14 and X 2, where its z power 
seems confirmed by its combination witha nose, zz. It is also combined 
with a figure denoting an ornamented ear, as in V 4,55, 7,X 7,and S11, 
13. The ear is rzczz, but xzc means to split and divide, and zak, “to put 
an end to.” 
Returning to the beginning of the inscription, D1 is easily read as 6 
or wac and fokob. This plural word must qualify the rebel azaw Nakhun, 
and may be read Uartokob, “of the Huastecs,” who are known to have 
been very troublesome in the time of Oxlahuh-Tzy and Cocyoéza. 
“ Bolonpak,” or the city of Palenque, is E 1, and F 1 commences with 
holhun, 15, which is followed by dak, corded, and a common Aztec and 
Maya hieroglyphic, ¢wz,a stone. Holhun appears to denote a_ place 
generally called Holom, on the borders of Guatemala and Honduras, in 
which case Jdaktun would stand for the Maya puchtun, fighting, 
quarreling.” A different group is F2. It begins with ov, and that which 
is below may represent the breast, ¢zem, while the upright at the end 
probably stands for aw/, the end. If this be correct, the reading is ox 
tzem xulob, which makes no sense, but with necessary latitude, yok dzau 
rulob, they make an end, xw/oé, of devastating, dzan, over, or in front of, 
yok, The first nine characters, or groups of characters,may thus be read: 
