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the seat or oratorio in which it is placed. It is probably from some- 
thing of comparatively small size, burnt in one piece. The mark of 
the earth symbol, to distinguish the substance of which it is made, is 
certainly appropriate. In Tro. 6b we see another on which is quite a 
different symbol, indicating, as will hereafter be shown, that the mate- 
rial is wood. 
The compound character in LXV1,21,is found in Tro. 9*b and 10*e. It 
occurs in the latter twice, the parts, however, reversed in the parallel 
groups, while in that of 9*b one is above the other. These variants do 
not necessarily indicate a difference in the signification, as can readily 
be ascertained by comparing characters in the numerous parallel 
groups. Omitting the prefix, this may be rendered mak-cab, “to eat 
honey without chewing (that is, by sucking); to break into a hive and 
steal the honey.” By reference to the plates on which the symbols are 
found the appropriateness of this rendering will be apparent, if I 
rightly interpret the figures below the text. There we see the twisted 
red symbols denoting the fire kindled beneath the hives, or beehouses, 
by which to drive out or destroy the busy little workers. In one of the 
fires we observe bone symbols, probably denoting a method of giving 
to the smoke an unpleasant odor, as rags were formerly used in some 
sections of our country for the same purpose. 
The characters shown in LXVII, 22 and 23, are from the upper part of 
Cort. 22, which is supposed to be the right half of the so-called ‘title 
page” of the Tro. Codex. These are interpreted by Seler, and probably 
correctly, as indicating “above” and “below” (LXvU, 22, the former, 
and LXV11, 23, the latter). By following the line in which these characters 
are found, through the two pages, beginning at the left of the plate of 
the Tro. Cedex, the result appears to be as follows, giving the signifi- 
cation of the characters so far as known: First, the four cardinal points 
in one direction, then two characters apparently corresponding with 
the two we have figured, one of which is partly obliterated; next the 
cardinal points in an opposite direction, after which follow the two 
characters Shown in LXVII, 22 and 23. <Asthe right half of the first (22) 
is the cab or caban symbol, it is presumable that it has here substan- 
tially the same phonetic value. It is probable, therefore, that the 
whole compound character may be rendered yokcabil (or okcabil), “above 
the earth,” or as Henderson, who gives two words of this form, inter- 
prets the first, “over, above the earth, above.” The second (LXYVII, 23) 
has also as its chief part the cab symbol, and the upper right-hand por- 
tion appears to have w’m as its chief phonetic elements. It is possible 
that cabnix “a stair,” “downward,” given by Henderson, furnishes the 
phonetic equivalent of the compound character. . These six directions, 
according to Dr J. W. Fewkes,' were noted by. the Tusayan Indians in 
some of their religious ceremonies. Mr Cushing says the same thing 
is true in regard to some of the Zuni ceremonies. 

1 Jour. Am. Eth. and Arch., J, p. 38. 
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