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ment of inscriptions II and III with the Temple of Inscriptions, 

 while on the other hand these glyphs are lacking in I. 



The most important among them is a hand, of which the thumb and 

 forefinger are plucking or picking or holding up some object (see d 

 and e). 



Another of these two figures occurs in inscription II, M 2 and O 8 ; 

 in III, O 9; and in the Temple of Inscriptions (in Maudslay, plate 

 02), in D 2, H 1, and G 11. The second figure means, as the context 

 shows, nothing else than the day IV 4, or IV Manik. I think that 

 in my article on the Day Gods of the Mayas (Globus, volume 78, 

 number 9) I have pointed out that the fourth day, the hand, and a 

 hunting god belong together, but I do not know what the hand was 

 doing in this connection. Now, the second of the above signs shows 

 in two passages in the inscriptions of the Temple of Inscriptions that 

 it is hanging the snares in which the game — the same day is called in 

 Aztec Mazatl (" deer, or roe ") — -is to be caught, such snares as have 

 become familiar to us as forming the subject of an entire section of 

 Codex Troano-Cortesianus. We see a similar snare with a XIII in 

 an inscription of the Palace of Palenque, in Maudslay, volume 4, 

 plate 29. 



The following three glyphs have been met with already, in my 

 article on the Inscriptions of the Temple, as parts of those groups 

 which I believe should be regarded as formulas of prayers, but these 

 can hardly be in question in inscriptions I, II, and III. The sign 

 represented in / usually occupies the first place in the formulas of 

 prayer and seems to be only a left fist. It occurs in II, E 7 and M 8, 

 as well as in III, P 10. 



A second sign is the accompanjdng figure, </, resembling a chess- 

 board, which is likewise familiar from the Temple of Inscriptions. 

 The passages where it occurs are in II, O 10, in III, D 6 and P 6. 



When I first became familiar with these inscriptions none of the 

 glyphs attracted my attention so much as the recumbent person often 

 occurring in the Temple of Inscriptions (see h). 



This glyph occurs in Inscription II no less than four times: D 2, 

 C 6, M 4, and N 10. In III it seems to be lacking, yet the question 

 arises, whether the two crossed legs in B 11, ?*, which I have seen in no 

 other passage, may not be meant for a recumbent human body viewed 

 from below. Perhaps these figures are connected with the large pic- 

 torial representations on the pillars of the Temple of Inscrij^tions 

 (Maudslay, volume 4, plates 45, 46), where the priests bear in their 

 arms a recumbent figure about the size of a child 4 years old. 



The agreement between inscriptions II and III is most pronounced 

 in the two columns which stand directly at the right of the central 

 pictorial representation. These are columns L and M in II and O 

 and P in III. I will place side by side the glyphs that are exactly 



