)D WITH THE OLD MAN's FACE. 3G3 



-iiiry ivlati..iisliii, t.. tin- -, .1 ..I' death. 

 Men,-,. <,niiis ivlaticn \s l\,uw\ in Plat.- 4-.' 

 of tlicC'ortcsiaii L'ndvx. wlnTf the t\V(i deities are hnaight tciyetlier 

 at the sacrifice here indicated. The two appea;- to be united in one 

 in the lowei' division of Plate XXVI* of the Manusci-ipt Troano. 



Figures of this god are also found in some of the Mexican codices, 

 as on Plate 73 of the Borgian manuscrijat, where the relation to 

 death and to the underworld is too apparent to be mistaken. On 

 Plate 10, same codex, the head of death is marked with the distin- 

 guishing black band. 



Unfortunately for investigations in this line, the early Spanish 



notices of the Maya mythology are so brief and confused that we can 



derive but little aid from them in our efforts to identify the deities 



figured in these iiianuscri])ts. Possibly the one with the banded face 



may represent Ciiniahau (ir Hunhau, the prince of the lnwei- iv-idus; 



but the rule he appears to play where figured, with the exeeiitiuu of 



Plate II, Manuscript Troano, and Plate 73 of the Borgian Codex, 



would scarcely justify the name. 



' ^i''w^c3\ ^^^ Symbol of the deity which Dr. Schellhas designates " the god with 



''\ML^nJ the old man's face." Found in all the codices and almost invaria- 



^^^gto^ l>ly in connection with the re])resentation of the deity shown in 



No. 3«. our Fig. 386. 



Kir. :i86. The god with tli. 



The deity denoted by this symbul and by tln' ll,i;ure which it accom- 

 panies is pMssilily Zamna or Ytzamna. a deilied Maya hero, but the 

 various rules in which he is fouml make it dillicnlt to decide on 

 this point. He appears comparatively few times in the Dresden 

 Codex, and only in the first few pages. In none of these is there any- 

 thing to indicate his functions. In Plates l"?r and 15c he holds a 

 sun symbol in his hand, which might be sn|i|M>sed to refer to his at- 

 ti'ibutes as " Kinich-Kakmo" but for tin/ fact that tlie same thing is 

 true of one or two other deities figured in the same codex. In the 

 Manuscript Troano, where he is oftenest represented, his figure and 

 his symbol appear most frequently in connection with the bee or 

 honey industry; for example, on Plate Vc, the only place in the first 

 part of the manusci'ipt where honey aj^pears to be referred to, and 



