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court. Hence the sun glyph in the middle of this side in Palace IV 

 must certainly be looked upon as the sign of the palace. 



There is in fragment 1, besides pedunculate oculiforni elements 

 and the stone knives, which here represent the rays of the sun glyph, 

 a design, already mentioned, which consists of an eye with an (>yebro\v 

 rolled up at the ends, on which rest elongated (protriuling) eyes, 

 l:»etween Avhich latter are inserted three pointed elements resembling 

 rays. In the Mexican figurative symbolism eyes are very generally 

 employetl to express radiating light. Lustrous stones (emerald, tur- 

 qouise, and muscovite) are expressed heiroglyphically by a disk that 



Fig. 72. Symbols and figure of deities, from Mexican codices. 



is marked differently according to the nature of the stone, and on its 

 circumference are drawn four eyes placed in the form of a cross (see 

 the hieroglyph chalchiuitl. *• emerald ", in the pyramidal structure of 

 the temple, a, figure To). The stars shining down from the night 

 sky are designated by eyes which are attached to the surface and to 

 the rim of a stripe or half circle painted in a dark, nebulous color 

 (see the representation of day and night in the middh* design of 

 ligure oS and the (h'awing of night with the symbol of the moon, a 

 labbit in a watery field, in figure 05 and <(, figure 7;2). 



It seems, therefore, certain that the composite designs in fragment 

 1 are intended to represent radiating light. One is even tempted 



