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the headdress, has, attached to it by a bow, the hieroglyph of the 

 planet Venus. I can not refrain from comparing this hieroglyph 

 with k. the figure drawn on pages 80 to 84 of Codex Vaticanus B 

 in front of the breast of the deity of the planet Venus (see h, figure 

 97) and wdiich is intended to represent an eye of light, perhaps a 

 star, as will be seen by comparing it with the bright sky (?, figure 

 J 01). I am, therefore, inclined to think that we ought to recog- 

 nize in our i, figure 101, the Maya representation of the deity of the 

 morning star, or the planet Venus. The hieroglyph corresponds 



Fig. 103. Glyphs and deity figures from the Maya codices. 



in its essential elements with the principal hieroglyph of the moan 

 bird («, figure 102). In interpreting the latter I made use of the 

 oxlahun taz muyal, " thirteen layers of clouds ", which are invoked 

 in the Misa milpera Xcanchakan. 



The regent of the third period, with his hieroglyj)h, is reproduced 

 in b, figure 102. This one, too, is not in the Schellhas list, nor are 

 the regents of the last two periods. The face exhibits unmistakable 

 animal characteristics, and an animaTs ear can be distinguished above 

 the pierced ear disk. The hieroglyph contains an element which 

 occurs as the essential element in the hieroglyi>h of a god with a deer's 



