HOLDEN.) THE MAYA HIEROGLYPHS. 235 
Tlaloc. This is known by the head-dress, the teeth, the air-trumpet, the 
serpent symbol, etc. In Plates XXVIII, XXXI, and XXXIII of the 
same work HUITZILOPOCHTLI and TLALOCG are represented together, in 
various adventures. 
In Plate LX (Fig. 59) notice also the chiffre on the tassels before and 
behind the main personage. 
Now turn to the Plate XXIV (Fig. 60), which is the main object in the 
“ Adoratorio” (Fig. 57), where the human figures serve as flankers. 
First examine the caryatides who support the central structure. 
These are Tlalocs. Each has an eagle over his face, is clothed in leopard 
skin, has the characteristic eye and teeth, and the wristlets of Plate 
LX (Fig. 59). 
A vertical line through the center of Plate XXIV (Fig. 60) would sepa- 
rate the figures and ornaments into two groups. These groups are very 
similar, but never identical, and this holds good down to the minutest 
particulars and is not the result of accident. One side (the right-hand) 
belongs to Tlaloc, the other to Huwitzilopochtli. 
The right-hand priest (let us call him, simply for a name and not to 
commit ourselves to a theory) has the sandals of Plate LXI; the left- 
hand priest the anklets of Plate LX. 
The beast on which the first stands and the man who supports the other 
are both marked with the tassel symbol of Plate LX. There is a cer- 
tain rude resemblance between the supplementary head of this beast 
and the pendant in front of the belt of Fig. 52. Four of these beasts sup- 
ply rain to the earth with Tlaloc in Plate XXVI of the MS. Troano. 
The infant offered by the right-hand priest has the teco curls on his 
forehead which was a necessary mark of the victims for TLALOC’s sacri- 
fices. The center of the whole plate is a horrid mask with an open 
mouth. Behind this are two staves with different ornaments crossed in 
the form of the air-cross. On either hand of this the ornaments are dif- 
ferent though similar. 
A curious resemblance may be traced between the positions, etc., of 
these two staves and those of the figure on p. 563, vol. iv, of BAN- 
CROFT'S Native Races, which is a Mexican stone. Again, this latter 
figure has at its upper right-hand corner a crouching animal (?) very 
similar to the gateway ornament given in the same volume, p. 321. 
This last isat Palenque. I quote these two examples in passing simply 
to reinforce the idea of similarity between the sacred sculptures of 
Yucatan and Mexico. 
I take it that the examination of which I have sketched the details 
will have left no doubt but that the personage of Fig. 52 is truly Huitzilo- 
pochtli, the Yucatec representative of HurrziLopocuTLt; that Plate 
LXI (Fig. 58) is the same personage; that Plate LX (Fig. 59) represents 
TLALOC; and that Plate XXIV (Tig. 60) is a tablet relating to the serv- 
ice of these two gods. 
I have previously shown that the Palenque hieroglyphs are read in 
