92 A STUDY OF THE MANUSCEIPT TEOANO. 



I strongly suspect that it is the symbol for Am, the sacred stone by means 

 of which they cast the hoi'oscope, and which was doubtless the same as 

 those named by Landa Acantim. The loop or knot on Plates XXI and 

 XXII probably signifies the tying of the years, the close of one cycle or 

 other period and the commencement of another.^ There are but two of 

 these, and they probably correspond with the figui-es on which the Chacs in 

 Plates 27 and 28 of the Codex are walking. These appear to be bundles 

 of cords or reeds bound at four points, representing the four dominical days 

 (the four years), each representing thirteen years of the cj^cle, or possibly 

 only one year of the luster. 



Plate XX, -which has Ix as the dominical day, appears to bear one 

 or two of the tokens mentioned by Landa in his description of the festival 

 of the Cauac years. This author remarks that, "after they 

 have placed the images in the temple, they perfume them, as is 

 their custom, and present to them two pellets of resin fi-om a 



Btree called kik, for the purpose of burning them, also some 

 iguanas, bread, a mitre, a bouquet of flowers, and a stone which 

 they hold in great honor." We see projecting from the head- 

 Fio. 12. dress of the figure in the lower right-hand corner of the lower 

 division what appears to be a flower. In the upper division we see at the 

 left an individual buining incense. In the corresponding jjlate of the Codex 

 (25), middle division, is this figure (Fig. 1 2), which I have concluded is a 

 symbol of the particular incense here mentioned. 



' It resembles the Mexican character for the day Ollin or "Earthquake." 



