fOrstkmann] tortoise AND SNAIL IN MAYA LITERATURE 



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Page 36b, where, beside the tortoise, is a person with closed eyes 

 (dead). The hieroglj^ph for the tortoise is lacking here. 



Page 37a, on the upper portion of which there are three astronomic 

 signs: below, the sun repeated, from which rain streams doAvn or, 



Fig. 1(H. Glyphs and figures from the Maya codices. 



perhaps more likely, rays shoot doAvn upon the earth, here repre- 

 sented by the threefold sign i^auac; at the very bottom, the tor- 

 toise itself. Here, too, the hieroglyph is missing (see a, figure 104-). 

 Page 38b, where, lastly, we see a bird in what looks like an heraldic 



