140 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [Vot. VI. 
yok bet keb:” “Of the tributaries of Oaxaca Cablahun-Tok killed three 
for doing evil.” 
The group R isa difficult one. Rr is evidently pak, the stone wall, 
in the plural, akod, towns. RK 2 is uac, 6, qualifying the towns, followed _ 
by Oxlahun and ¢okod, burned ; 3 is waxac ahauob, eight chiefs; and 4 
and 5 furnish Cak Cawek ahau ahpop. © seems to consist of ca, repre- 
sented by the number under the first figure, and +z, the bird’s head, as 
in C 16 and X 8; the whole word is probably cuchu/, family or retainers, 
in the sense of subjects. 7 contains ox for yok, and fet for det, and kab 
for keban, but to these it adds ca and ox, if the comb-like ca be not read 
as mak or xul at the end of a group. The form caor might stand for 
chuuc, to seize, or chaah, he killed. In 8 the first upright character can 
hardly be anything else than ca, it may stand for che, wood. It is 
followed by ox for yok, and by what looks like Zo# for tock. As obscure at 
first is 9, which examination shows to consist of fet, the wheel, and zum, 
a stone, alongside of the comb-like ca over another stone, the whole 
making patan katun. No. 10 suggests pet, pop and pak, but the latter 
must be regarded not as building but as stone, ¢wz, to make patan, with 
ca tun, or two stones to precede fof, the mat. It will thus be patan 
katun pop, the tribute asker of the mat. In 11 the expedient for the 
trefoil is £a, and to be followed by a hat, ppoc, while the upright behind 
it is either zak or xul, the end. Perhaps it is ca paral, and depopulate, 
seeing that it is followed by cacab, the commune, in 12, and that it is 
followed in 13 by the name of Caichxik, the rebel. No. 14 isca kuxilek ; 
and 15 appears to be pak, the town. This difficult line may then be 
read: “pakob uac Oxlahun tocob uaxac ahauob Cah Cawek ahau Alhpop 
cuchul yak bet keb chaah ca yok tockob patan katun pop: ca paxal cacab 
Caichxtk ca kuxilek pak :” “Oxilahun burned six towns of eight chiefs 
of the subjects of the Ahau Ahpop of the House of Cawek, when they 
refused the tribute which the tribute-asking Pop demanded: then he 
depopulated the commune of Caichxik when the town rebelled.” 
M 1 is no doubt fo, 5, ca, 2, and kulel. This Zo must evidently stand 
for ku, a god, and his name is Cakulel, identified with Tepeu, Tepac or 
Tepal, a chief divinity of the Maya-Quiches.! M 2 is ho, 5, hun, 1, nak, 
an end, and fet, a wheel, making Ku Hunakpet, the god Hunakpet, 
probably the same as Hunahpu of the Popul Vuh, or sacred book of the 
Quiches.*, N 1 may be Ho Pakpetox or Paktunox, but sheds no light 
on the mythology of Palenque ; and N 2 is so obscure that it is hard to 
make anything of it. Nevertheless, the writer, recognizing N as the 
deity of the so-called cross, that is Pak or Vaku, the bird messenger of 
Hurakan, also called Petox and Tunox, supposes N 2 to consist of hod, a 
