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gously with the hieroolyphic men (v, figure 4), which, as I stated 

 above, is the picture of the old earth g-oddess, the earth mother, Ixchel, 

 or Tonantzin (compare the two forms g and //, figure 5, which are 

 used for the bee fiyingdown, in Troano codex, page 9*c/), 



And, finall} % this conception of the sign Caban also agrees very well 

 with the part played by the hieroglyph Caban in the compound hiero- 

 glyphs in the Maya maiuiscript; for this elemont forms an essential 

 constituent in all hieroglyphs which sj^mbolizc the word "below" or 



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Fig. 5. Day signs and related glyphs from the Maya codiees. 



"descent from above". Thus in the hieroglyph of the tiftli canlinal 

 point {e to g, figure 1), which denotes the center; in the hieroglyph of 

 the bee {e to h , figure 5), which represents an insect swooping down from 

 above; in the hieroglyphs (/ to n, figure 5) which illustrate pcniring 

 from a jug or wine skin; in the hieroglyph o, which denotes the felling 

 of the tree; in the snake formed by the sign Cal)an, upon whicii. in the 

 Dresden codex, page 3(»^/, the green Chac, the Chac of the fifth direc- 

 tion, is descending. When, in my former article, I described tiiis caban 



