258 DAY SYMBOLS OF THE MAYA YEAR [ETH. ANN. 16 
Plate LXvit, 24, is acompound character from Dres. 39b, below which 
the long-nose deity holds in his hand a peculiar article (LXV, 25), ‘as 
if,” says Seler, ‘“‘ pouring out of a bottle.” That the prefix has the interior 
cross-hatched when complete appears from a number of other places, as, 
for example, in the upper division of the same plate. This, as hereto- 
fore stated, gives the x or ch sound. It is possible, therefore, that the 
symbol, omitting the right portion, should be interpreted wachcab, “abrir 
de par en par,” or hechcab, ‘‘to open little by little, to develop, discover 
it” (Henderson). As the right portion has a character resembling the 
Mulue symbol as its chief element, and below it the wv glyph, we may 
translate it muyal, “cloud.” This would give as the meaning of the 
entire symbol ‘‘open the cloud”—that is, ‘to pour out the rain.” As 
this is connected with a rain series, and we see a similar glyph 
(though with different prefix) on plate 38b, where the same deity is in 
the midst of a rain storm and holding in his hand a similar object, the 
rendering appears to be, at least, appropriate. It is to be further 
observed that this combined Caban and Muluc symbol is found fre- 
quently in connection with rain storms and cloud symbols. 
According to the interpretation given LXVII, 22 and 24, the compound 
symbol shown at 26, from Dres. 35b and 34b, should be rendered 
Yokcabil muyal, the cloud above.” As we see in both places, in the 
picture under the text, the looped serpent inclosing water, which Dr 
Seler considers the ‘+ water sack” or cloud, this interpretation is appro- 
priate. As further confirmation of the interpretation given LXVH, 22, 
attention is called to the picture in Tro. 32*e over which the same syin- 
bol is found. Here the allusion is doubtless to the basket-like covering 
over, or “above,” the black deity lying on a mat. 
THE EIGHTEENTH DAY 
Maya, edznab or ezanab; Tzental, chinax; Quiche-Cakchiquel, tihax ; Zapotec, gopaa ; 
Nahuatl, tecpatl. 
The form of the symbol of this day varies but little in the codices, 
as shown by plate LXvul, 28-31. Itis seldom found in this form in com- 
bination. If its equivalent is given in these, it is of the form shown 
in 33. It is, however, occasionally seen on articles of stone, as the 
spearpoint (32) and stone hatchet (54) and sacrificial knife. It also 
appears in the symbol for the stone mortar (36) from Tro, 19¢c. Before 
discussing its signification and probable origin we will give the signifi- 
cations which have been suggested of the different names of the day. 
The signification of the Nahuatl name—tecpati—is “flint.” Dr Brin- 
ton says, ‘especially the flint-stone knife used in sacrificing, to cut the 
victim.” Dr Seler finds agreement in the Tzental name from a state- 
ment, by Nunez de la Vega, that the symbol chinaw, or rather the tute- 
lary god of the same, was a great warrior, who was always represented 
in the calendars with a banner in his hand, and that he was slain and 
burned by the nagual of another heathen symbol. Dr Brinton states 
