HOLDEN, ] THE MAYA HIEROGLYPHS. 243 
We now see why the pair 2020, 2021 occurs so many times in Plate LVI, 
and again as 264, 265, ete. The right-hand half of this tablet has much 
to say of CUKULCAN, and whenever his name is mentioned a brief list of 
his titles accompanies it. Although it is disappointing to find both mem- 
bers of this well-marked pair to be proper names, yet it is gratifying to 
see that the theory of pairs, on which the proof of the order in which 
the tablets are to be read must rest, has received such unexpected con- 
firmation. 
To conclude the search for the hieroglyphs of CUKULCAN’S name, it 
will be necessary to collect all those faces with “round beards” (see 
BANCROFT’S Native Races, vol. iii, p. 250). TLALOCG was also bearded, 
but all the historians refer to QUETZALCOATL as above cited. I refer 
hieroglyphs Nos. 658, 651?, 6502, and 249? to this category. 
Perhaps also the sign No. 153 is the sign of QUETZALCOATL, as some- 
thing very similar to it is given as his sign in the Codex Telleriano Remen- 
sis, KINGSBOROUGH, vol. i, Plates I, II, and V (Plate I the best), where 
he wears it at his waist. 
In Plate LXIIT of STEPHENS (vol. ii) is a small figure of CUKULCAN 
which he calls “Bas Relief on Tablet.” WALDECK gives a much larger 
drawing (incorrect, however, in many details), in which the figure, the 
“ Beau Relief,” is seen to wear bracelets high up on the arm. This was 
a distinguishing sign of QUETZALCOATL (see BANCROFT’S Native Races, 
vol. ili, pp. 249 and 250), and this figure probably is a representation of 
the Maya divinity. He is on a stool with tigers for supports. The tiger 
belongs to the attributes which he had in common with TLALOC, and we 
see again the intimate connection of these divinities—a connection often 
pointed out by BRASSEUR DE BOURBOURG. 
This is the third proper name which has been deciphered. All of 
them have been pure picture-writing, except in so far as their rebus 
character may make them in a sense phonetic. 
XI. 
COMPARISON OF THE SIGNS OF THE MAYA MONTHS 
(LANDA) WITH THE TABLETS. 
We have a set of signs for Maya months and days handed down to 
us by LANDA along with his phonetic alphabet. A priori these are more 
likely to represent the primitive forms as carved in stone than are the 
alphabetic hieroglyphs, which may well have been invented by the Span- 
iards to assist the natives to memorize religious formul.* 
*Since this was written I have seen a paper by Dr. VALENTINI, ‘‘The LANDA alpha- 
bet a Spanish fabrication” (read before the American Antiquarian Society, April 28, 
1880), and the conclusions of that paper seem to me to be undoubtedly correct. They 
are the same as those just given, but while my own were reached by a study of the 
stones and in the course of a general examination, Dr. VALENTINI has addressed himself 
successfully to the solution of a special problem. 
