THOMAS] THE FIRST DAY Ziel 
believing this combination was intended to denote bread or maize bread. 
This belief is based on the statement by Landa in his account of the 
sacrifices at the beginning of the year Muluc, that they made “images 
of dogs, in baked earth, carrying bread on the back,” and the fact that 
in plate 21 of the Codex Tro., representing the sacrifices of this year, 
we see the figure of a dog with this Kan-Imix group on its back. This 
figure (plate Lx1v, 10) probably represents the images of which Landa 
speaks, and the symbols on the back, bread or food in the general sense. 
Further notice of this combination will be given under the fourth day, 
Kan. 
The character shown in plate LX VIII, 26, from Tro. 20*d, is erroneously 
given by Seler as an example of the kan-imix symbol. The two glyphs 
on the mat figure are unquestionably imix symbols, though of the two 
different types shown in plate LxIv,1 and 5. He suggests that here it 
replaces the deity symbol, but this is contradicted by the fact that in both 
groups where it appears the deity symbolis present, The mat-like figure, 
which is probably a determinative, shows that it refers to the sack, bag, 
or kind of hamper which the women figured below bear on the back, 
filled with corn, bones, etc. As mucue signifies “portmanteau, bag, 
sack, ete,” mucub “a bag or sack made of sackeloth,” and mucubeuch 
“to carry anything in a sack or folded in a shawl,” it is more than 
probable we have in these words the signification of the symbol. The 
duplication of the imix symbol may be to denote the plural; or, as the 
words come from a root signifying ‘‘secret, hidden, covered,” it may be 
to intensify. It is noticeable also that the latter or right-hand Jmix 
symbol is similar to that used for the month Jac. 
In the right section of Dres. 41b is the glyph shown in plate Lxtv, 11, 
which, according to the phonetic system that appears to prevail in this 
writing, may be translated yulpolic, from yulpol, ‘*to smooth or plane 
wood,” or, as given by Henderson (MS. Lexicon), ‘to smooth, plane, or 
square timber, to beat off the log.” This interpretation, which is given 
here merely because of its relation to the symbol which follows, is based 
in part on the following evidence: The left character, which has yas its 
chief phonetic element, is the same as the upper character in the sym- 
bol for the month Yax (plate Lx1v, 12), and also the upper character of 
the symbol for the month Yarkin (plate Lxty, 15). Other evidence of 
its use with this value will be presented farther on, and also in reference 
to the right character of the above-mentioned symbol (plate Lxrv, 11), 
which has been given p as its chief phonetic element. By reference to 
the figure below the text the appropriateness of this rendering is at 
once apparent, as here is represented an individual in the act of chipping 
ott the side of a tree. This he appears to be doing by holding in his 
lett hand an instrument resembling a frow, which he strikes with a 
hatchet. 
The character immediately below the one above mentioned and 
belonging to the same series is shown in plate Lxtv, 14. It may be 
interpreted mamachah, “to make flat by repeated strokes.” The phonetic 
