156 A STCTDY OF THE MANUSCRIPT TEOANO. 



Third group : "Toward the east ; sprinkle water on the child ; ( 1) ; 



tortillas." 



Fourth group: "Toward the soutli, (ichintzah) give a bath; ( 1); 



sprinkling water on the child." 



This character (Fig. 88), found in the first, second, and fourth groups, 

 I am unable to interpret. The larger right-hand portion may be a variant 

 of chicchnn, and the whole stand for the words a or ic 

 jS)''^^ chichan, "a little," or ha-chen, "water from the senote 

 or well" 



Fig. 83. rpj^^ ^j^j^.^ character in the third group (Fig. 89) ^"'- ^^• 



is also one I have been unable to interpret. The smaller figures to the left 

 may possibly denote the words ca-chuc, "a cuff"" or "blow." The peculiar 

 eye in the right portion I think refers to some particular deity. 



I am aware that this interpretation of these groups hangs on a very 

 slender thread which, if broken, lets the whole thing fall to the ground, and 

 hence have given it with a" feeling of considerable doubt. But the four 

 similar figures and the symbols of the cardinal points agree very well with 

 this conclusion. 



As I have already intimated, there are good reasons for believing that 

 the compound character shown in Fig. 90 denotes "bread of maize" or 

 "corn bread." As will be seen, this consists of the 

 characters for Imix (or Ymix) and Kan; as ixim signi- 

 fies "maize," we may assume, without great liability 

 Fig. 90. of being in error, that this is the equivalent of Imix. ^^'^- ^^• 



But I am inclined to believe the latter symbol (that for Kan) is used not 

 only to denote bread (tortillas), but that in the pictorial portion it is also 

 .frequently given to represent corn (maize). 



The combination shown in Fig. 91, and found so frequently on the 

 plates of the Manuscript and Codex, probably denotes "cakes" or "two 

 cakes," or "tortillas of maize." The two are found combined as in Fig. 

 90 and with the accompanying characters on Plate III*. 



Turning to Plates VIII* and IX* of the Manuscript, we notice along 

 the lower border of the middle division what are evidently offerings; some 

 are pictorial I'epresentations and some perhaps symbols; among these we 



