70 A STUDY OF THE MANUSCRIPT TROANO. 



or chief chosen for the occasion. This done, they returned to the idol on 

 the southern stone heap, where certain religious ceremonies were performed, 

 after which they returned with the idol to. the house, where they placed it 

 vis-a-vis with the other — -just as we see in the lower division of Plates XX- 

 XXIII of the Manuscript Troano. Here they kept constant vigil until the 

 unlucky days {Uayeh-liaaV) had expired and the new Kan year appeared ; 

 then they took the statue of Bolon-Zacab to the temple and the other idol 

 to the heap of stones at the east side of the village, where it was to remain 

 during the year, doubtless intended as a constant reminder to the common 

 people of what year was passing. 



Similar transfers were made at the commencement of the other years; 

 at that of Muluc, first to the east, then to the house, and then to its final 

 resting place on the north side; of Ix, first to the north, then to the west;^ 

 of Cauac, first to the west, then to the south. 



This movement agrees precisely with the order given by Perez; and 

 the final resting places of the idols for the year being the cardinal points of 

 the dominical days where he fixes them; that is, Kan at the east; Muluc at 

 the north; Ix at the west, and Cauac at the south. 



There is therefore no real disagreement between the authorities on this 

 point. 



If we turn now to Plate VI of the Manuscript Troano we find these 

 four characters in the spaces of the upper and middle divisions. No. 3 



Fig, 8. 

 is in the upper left-hand corner; No. 2 in the lower left-hand corner; No. 

 1 in the lower right-hand corner, and No. 4 in the upper right-hand cor- 

 ner. We find the same characters placed in the same order in the upper 

 and middle divisions of Plate VII and the upper division of Plate VII*. 

 They are also found in the corners of the spaces of Plates XVIII*, XXVI, 

 XXIX*, XXX*, XXXP, and XXXII*, but not always in the same order. 



'Brasscur makes a luistako iu liis tnmslatiou, sriviug cast instead of west. 



