THOMAS] THE SEVENTH DAY 233 
Attention is called first to the symbol for ‘‘ west,” shown in plate 
LXIV, 93. The lower portion is the recognized symbol for kin, “day” or 
“sun,” and the upper portion is beyond question the manik character. 
As chikin is the Maya name for “west,” we are justified in assuming 
that here at least this manik symbol is to be interpreted by chi, and is 
in some sense phonetic. As china is the Zapotec name of the day, and 
signifies “deer,” and chigh is the Zotzil name for “deer,” it is probable 
that the symbol preserves the old name, while in Maya this old name 
has been supplanted for some reason, or through some linguistic process, 
by manik. 
Dr Seler calls attention to the character shown in plate LXVIII, 32, 
from Dres. 15¢e, which is repeated in the form LXVII1, 33, on plate 21b. 
That this refers to the deer figured below must be admitted, as this is 
clearly shown by the relation of the characters in the adjoining section 
to the animals figured below the text. Henderson (MS. Lexicon) gives 
xvolke as “‘the male deer.” If this could be considered substantially 
equivalent to cholceh in sound, our manik symbol would retain its value. 
The objection to this supposition is that the figure is probably intended 
for a doe instead of the male. Brasseur gives chacyuc as the name 
applied to a small species of deer. It is true these interpretations 
leave out the numeral prefix; nevertheless they serve to show that it is 
probable the true name is a word which retains the phonetic value of 
the manik symbol as we have given it. Be the word what it may, two 
conclusions may be relied on: First, that it alludes to the deer, and, 
second, that one of its chief phonetic elements is ch. The character 
shown in plate LXvil, 34, from Tro. 11*b, has probably the same ele- 
ment in its phonetic equivalent, for the Maya verb hax (haxnahi), “to 
twist or turn by rolling the thing between the palms of the hand; make 
cord used for muslin or cloth,” ete, gives substantially this phonetic 
equivalent. 
The character shown in plate LXyIit, 35, from Dres. 10b, is referred 
to by Seler as indicating an offering to the gods. In this he is possibly 
correct. As tich, in Maya, signifies an “offering,” ‘a sacrifice,” and tich 
(tichah) “to offer, present,” etc, it is probable that in this instance also 
the manik symbol retains ch as its chief phonetic element. However, I 
am inclined to believe it refers to the collecting or gathering of the 
ripened fruit. In this case the prefix must be understood as a deter- 
minative indicating piling or heaping up, putting together or in a heap, 
or storing away. Of the Maya words indicating this operation, we note 
the following: Chich (chichah), hich, and hoch, each of which has ch or ch 
as its chief consonant element. This interpretation agrees very well 
with the fact that here, as elsewhere, a date is to be taken into con- 
sideration. On sucha date, at such a time, the cacao is to be gathered, 
is to be harvested and stored away. Students of these codices, in their 
attempts at interpretation, appear, as a general thing, to overlook the 
fact that almost every paragraph or group of glyphs in the script is 
