238 CENTRAL AMERICAN PICTURE-WRITING 
In Plate LVI (our Fig. 48) the mask at the foot of the cross isa human 
mask, and not a serpent mask, as has been ingeniously proved by Dr. 
HARRISON ALLEN in his paper so often quoted. Itis the mask of Tlaloc, 
as shown by the teeth and corroborated (not proved) by the way in which 
the eye is expressed. The curved hook within the eyeball here, as in 185, 
stands for the air—the wind—of which Tlaloc was also god. The Mexi- 
cans had a similar sign for breath, message. 
The chiffre 1975, on which Huitzilopochtli’s priest is standing, I believe 
to be the synonym of 185 in Plate XXIV. Justin front of Tlaloc’s priest 
is a Sacrificial yoke (?), at the top of which is a face, with the eye of the 
Tlalocs, and various decorations. This face is to be found also at the 
lower left-hand corner of Plate XLI (of STEPHENS’), and also (?) in the 
same position in Plate XLII (of STEPHENS’). These will serve as sub- 
jects for further study. 
Notice in Plate LVI (our Fig. 48) how the ornaments in corresponding 
positions on either side of the central line are similar, yet never the same. 
A careful study of these pairs will show how the two gods celebrated, 
differed. A large part, at least, of the attributes of each god is re- 
corded in this way by antithesis. I have not made enough progress in 
this direction to make the very few conclusions of which I am certain 
worth recording. The general fact of such an antithesis is obvious 
when once it is pointed out, and it is in just such paths as this that ad- 
vances must be looked for. 
I have just mentioned, in this rapid survey of the plates of vol. ii of 
STEPHENS’ work, the principal pictorial signs relating to Tlaloc. There 
are a number almost equally well marked in vol. i, in Plates VII, TX, X, 
XIII, and XV, but they need not be described. Those who are especi- 
ally interested can find them for themselves. 
The following brief account and plate of a Tlaloce inscription at Kabah - 
will be useful for future use, and is the more interesting as it is compara- 
tively unknown. 
INSCRIPTION AT KABAH (Yucatan). 
This hitherto unpublished inscription on a rock at Kabah is given in 
Archives paléographiques, vol. i, part ii, Plate 20. It deserves attention 
on account of its resemblances, but still more on account of its differ- 
ences, with certain other Yucatee glyphs. 
We may first compare it with the Plate LX of STEPHENS (our Fig. 59). 
The head-dress in Plate 20 is quite simple, and presents no resemblance 
to the elaborate gear of Plate LX, in which the ornament of a leaf (?), 
or more probably feather, cross-hatched at the end and divided sym- 
metrically by a stem (?) or quill about which four dots are placed, seems 
characteristic. 
Possibly, and only possibly, the square in the rear of the head of 
Plate 20, which has two cross-hatchings, may refer to the elaborate 
cross-hatchings in Plate LX. The four dots are found twice, once in 
