470 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 28 



compare the following numbers, which do not come near coinciding 

 with it : 



1 502= 398+104 



2 1,742= 4X398+150 



5 5,728=14x398+156 



8 9,714=24x398+162 



Those belonging to the latter four pictures have in fact no Jupiter 

 symbol. Further, the regular progression from the seventh to the 

 tenth, seventeenth, twentieth, twenty-seventh, and thirtieth multiple 

 in the six equations given above somewhat increases the credibility of 

 my view. 



I will not go into particulars here in regard to the rest of the 

 glyphs found in the rectangles. That task must be undertaken some 

 day in a wider connection. For these rectangles are by no means a 

 peculiarity of the Dresden codex, as it has them in common with the 

 other Maya manuscripts, while, excepting one trace in Codex Teller- 

 iano-Remensis, I have not found them in the Aztec manuscripts. 



Concerning the pictures, I regret that I have only detached remarks 

 to offer, and not, as I always desire to do, a definite, concise result of 

 my investigations. I find human figures four times, not counting 

 tlie tenth picture, as follows : 



Picture 1, page 53a, has the death god. A, sitting and pointing 

 upward. 



Picture 2, page 55a, has the head of a deity, probably I), yet with 

 the suggestion of a beard, and on his brow the symbol of the sun. 

 The head is surrounded by a black and wdiite striped ring. 



Picture 3, page 56a, has the head of B, again with a beard; above 

 it, kin (the sun). The head is encircled by a stripe, black on the left, 

 white on the right. 



Picture G, page 53b, has a lianged female figure, which Schellhas 

 (Gottergestalten, page 11) l)elieves to be the Maya goddess Ixtab, 

 the goddess of the halter ; that is, of the hanged. 



The suggestion of a face, perhaps in place of the sign ahau, occurs 

 in picture 4, page 57a, as the center, but on the sides the surface is 

 black and white. 



It is significant, furthermore, that kin (" sun ") forms the center of 

 the picture four times, vdz, in pictures 5, 7, 8, and 9, pages 52b, 54b, 

 56b, and 57b. In all four cases we see beside the kin one black 

 and one white surface, as we have already seen them in picture 4 

 and similarly in picture 3. Pictures 8 and 9 are, as it were, disgorged 

 by a snake drawn below them. In i^ictures 5 and 8, four arrowlike 

 symbols diverge from the kin in four directions, probably the four 

 cardinal points or the four Bacabs. We see two of these symbols 



