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If even in the details of the dates similarities appear which connect 

 the representations of the Maya manuscripts, apparently of such dif- 

 ferent character, with those of the Bor<^ian codex group and the 

 Mexican manuscripts in general, it will not seem surprising that 

 analogies should also appear in the groups of figures. These are very 

 apparent on pages 4G to 50 of the Dresden manuscript. 



On these five pages of this manuscript we see, as in b, c, and d, fig- 

 ure 97, a figure armed with the spear thrower and bundle of spears, 

 and under it, not opposite, another struck with a spear. The form 

 armed with the spear thrower, and bundle of spears is not the deity 

 of the morning star repeated five times, as in the representations of 

 the manusci-ipts of the Borgian codex group, discussed above, but five 

 different figures, respecting whose significance I shall have more to 

 say later. The figures struck with the spear, on the other hand, are 

 clearly the same as in the representations of the Borgian codex group, 

 at least on the first three pages. 



On the first page of the liorgian (;odex we see struck by the spear 

 the goddess of water, the Mexican Chalchiuhtlicue, "• in the water ", 

 <■/ in (he Bologna codex the same, d; also in Codex Vaticanus (a, 

 figure J)8), but on the second, not the first, page, for the order here is 

 not exactly the same as in the Borgian codex. 



I reproduce in h, figure 98, in hieroglyph and full figure, the per- 

 sonage struck by the spear on page 4(), the first of (he pages connected 

 herewith in the Dresden manuscript." It is the same divinity as 

 the one represented on page 25 of the Dresden manuscript as regent 

 of the years beginning with Ben, or Acatl of the Mexican nomen- 

 clature, /", and on page 7, d, as the twelfth in the series of the twenty 

 gods called god K by Schellhas. The face of this god is distinguished 

 by a remarkably proliferous nose, and the hieroglyph re[)resents a 

 head shaped like that of an animal, with a projection on the fore- 

 head from which radiate two objects resembling tongues of flame. 

 He is very frequently represented on the sculptures of Copan and 

 Palenque (compare h and /, figure 98). The nose is not so strongly 

 proliferous as in (he manuscript, but in every case it curves up- 

 ward. The projection on the forehead, with the two tongues of 

 flame, is never absent. On its surface there are frequently two crossed 

 rods (see a and d, figure 99), which are explained by Dieseldorff 

 as fire drills, but which may have an astronomic significance. The 

 god frequently has the sun sign, kin, on his brow. Professor Forste- 

 mann supposes that this figure is a storm deity, whose ornamental 



"The hieroglyphs of the figures struck by the spear are on the right side of the pages, 

 directly below the hieroglyph of the deity hurling the spear. The figure struck l)y the 

 spear is also indicated on the page directly preceding p. 40, p. 24, which in a certain 

 measure is an epitome of pp. 46 to 50. The first of the two hieroglyphs, which I have 

 given in b, fig. OS, is on p. 24, (lie second on p. 46. 



