40 MAYA AND MEXICAN MANUSCRIPTS. 



although afterwards, in the same work, iu a note to Perez' Cronologia, 

 he quotes Cogulludo's statement without explanation or objection. 



Dr. Brinton, in his Myths of the New World," places these dominical 

 days at t be same points to which I have assigned them— Kan at the east, 

 &c— although referring in a note at the same place to the very page of 

 Landa's Relation, where they are assigned as given by Eosny. In a 

 subsequent work, Hero Myths, referring to the same passage in Landa, 

 and with Cogulludo's work before him, he assigns them to the same 

 points as Eosny— Kan to the south, &c. — yet without any reference 

 whatever to his former expressed opinion. 



SchultzSellack, in an article entitled Die Amerikanischen Ootter der 

 vier Weltrichtungen und ihre Tempel in Palanque, in the Zeitschrift fiir Eth- 

 nologie for 1879 , 22 comes to the same conclusion as Eosny. 



Eosny's opinion on this subject has already been quoted. 23 



From these facts it is evident that the assignment of the dominical 

 days to their respective cardinal points has not as yet been satisfactorily 

 determined, but that the tendency at the present day is to follow Lan- 

 da's simple statement rather than Cogulludo and Perez. This is caused, 

 I -presume, in part, by the fact that certain colors— yellow, red, white, 

 and black— were also referred to the cardinal points, and because it is 

 supposed that among the Maya nations yellow was appropriated to Kan, 

 red to Muluc, white to Ix, and black to Cauac; and as the first appears 

 to be more.appropriate to the south, red to the east or sunrise, white to 

 the north or region of snow, and black to the west or sunset, therefore 

 this is the correct assignment. 



But there is nothing given to show that this was the reason for the 

 selection or reference of these colors by the inhabitants of Central 

 America. 



This brings another factor into the discussion and widens the field of 

 our investigation ; and as but little, save the terms applied to or con- 

 nected with the dominical days, is to be found in regard to the Maya 

 custom in this respect, we are forced to refer to the Mexican custom as 

 the next best evidence. But it is proper to state first that the chief, 

 and, so far as I am aware, the only, authority for the reference of the 

 colors named to the four Maya days, is found in the names applied to 

 them by Landa. 24 



According to this writer, the other names applied to the Bacab of Kan, 

 were Hobnil, Kanil-Baeab, Kan-Pauuhtun, and Kan-Xib-Chac ; to that 

 of Muluc, Canzienal, Chacal-Bacab, ChacPauahtun, and GhacXib-Chac ; 

 to that of Ix, Zac-Ziui, Zacal-Bacab, Zac-Pauahtun, and Zac-Xib-Chac ; 

 and to that of Cauac, Eozen-Ek, Ekel-Bacab, Ek-Pauahtun, and Ek-Xib- 

 Ghac. As Kan or Kanil of the first signifies yellow, Ghac or Chacal of 

 the second signifies red, Zac or Zacal, of the third white, and Ek or Ekel, 



21 P. 82. « See also hisDeehiff. Ecrit. Hierat., p. 42. 



- J P. 209. "Eelaciou, p.208. 



