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tached to tbe honey-sign. In the more derrotic Cauac 

 glyphs, honey is represented as shown in Fig 8 Erosion 

 has partially destroyed one of the components of the Casa 

 No. 3 Cauac glyph of which we speak, but bj' comparing 

 the photograph with Catherwood's drawing, it will be found 

 to closely resemble this component iu the demotic Cauac 

 glyph. Il is simply the aspirate circle (dotted), enclosing 

 two small squares as in the Landa glyph of Cauac. In 

 this connection it may be interesting to add that an at- 

 tempt to interpret, by means of our alphabet, the in- 

 scription at the top of the left-hand slab, Casa No. .3, 

 Palenque, gives as follows: "The gods — earth — sky — 

 water — maize — Kukuitz and Kukulcan — Cauac — Muluc." 

 The slab at the right-band side of the doorway of Casa 

 No. 3 we think represents Kukulcan with the wart-like ex- 

 crescence and the antennee sign attached to his forehead. 

 The inscription, according to the rendering of our alphabet, 

 reads "Kukulcau, u-ahkio imix, ah Cimil, Chikin." The 

 forefinger of the left hand of Kukuitz on the left-hand slab 

 of Casa No. 3, Palenque, points to a glyph just above, which 

 is probably the hieratic glyph of this god, bearing, we think, 

 strong affinities to the demotic character, an attempt at the 

 analysis of which has already been given in this paper. 

 Just above the Kukuitz glyph, in the perpendicular column 

 in front of the god's face, is ChiJcin, above Chikin is Ahau, 

 the next two glyphs not yet determined, and then imme- 

 diately below the horizontal line of glyphs in the right-hand 

 corner of the slab is Cimi. Just above Cimi is Kan, and 

 to the left Ikilcdb; the third to the left on ibis parallel line 

 of glyphs seems to be the long-nosed god — probably Kukul- 

 can — next to it Itzamna, and the end glyph on the left 

 seems to express " Itza." This interpretation is made subject 

 to further alteration and improvement; to give detailed 

 analyses of these glyphs in a short paper is impossible. 



The small figure on Plate 25 of the Codex Troano (&), 

 turned head downward, shown in drawing B, has some in- 

 teresting relations with the antennae glyph attached to the 

 honey-sign (see Figs 1, 4-6, drawing A — 1 and 6 = hieratic 

 script, 4:^ demotic). The drawing B is but a portion of the 

 original design of the scribe, the hand supporting the an- 

 tenna sign, enclosed in the circular glyph underneath the 

 upturned foot, is that of the goddess Cab, or the earth. Just 

 above the antennae glyph (phonetic value = i-kil-cab) is the 

 foot which = woe. The hand of the goddess supporting this 

 design is the c^i glyph, but in this place it has the phonetic 

 value of Chd, the hd determinative being quite conspicuous 

 on the thumb, its end protruding well into the circle enclos- 

 ing the antennas glyph. This obtained, we have suggested 

 " ch4-uoc " or Cauac. 



The ca glyph in the eye of the child figure and the foot 

 also give us, cauoc a repetition of cauac. The antenna of 

 the bee with the slight i curveat the end give the phonetic 

 value ikil, and the honey squares below give us cab = ikil- 

 cdb. There is evidently some close connection between 

 cauac and ikilcdb, for the headdress of this child figure has 

 the scribe's method of representing honey by squares and 

 suggestions of ikil. The work of the scribe sculptor was 

 necessarily different fi-om that of his more demotic brethren, 

 who drew the more cursive script, yet there seems to us to 

 be a not improbable relationship of this figure on Plate 25 of 

 the Troano to that upheld in the arms of the ahkin on the 

 Casa No. 2 group — Palenque. The peculiar slit or de- 

 formed feet and variants of the head-dress suggest that fu- 

 ture study may show some connection between these figures, 

 and that ikilcdb and cauac may have a dual mey.'iing or 



personality. Mr. W. Thomson, who has been residing in 

 Chiapas for manj- years, informs me that during a visit to 

 Lorillard City his Maya servant, who had been a bee hunter in 

 his youth, accompanied him, and while they were preparing 

 a resting place for the night the cry of a jaguar was heard; 

 the old man shook his head, and laying his hand on a sculp- 

 tured lintel near the door of the temple, said rapidly " The 

 jaguar calls, the bee leaves the centre of the maize flower 

 and seeks the hollow tree," then turning toward the bas-re- 

 lief he indicated the head covering of the figures ejaculating 

 "ca6," then as if startled at what he had said, he relapsed 

 into silence, and no amount of questioning could obtain any- 

 thing further from him. I cannot recall where I have read 

 it in one of Dr. Brinton's books, but he mentions that Dr. 

 Berendt while travelling with a Maya guide overheard some 

 remark which he made having an interesting meaning, but 

 the man, recollecting that he was accompanied by one of 

 the white race, stopped short in his words and nothing fur- 

 ther could be elicited from him. The suggestion of cab, a 

 hive, was an excellent one, for the head coverings of these 



figures, as represented by Charn'ay on page 391 of his " Villes 

 du Nouveau Monde," seem to be representations of beehives; 

 and it was the antennae sign to the right-hand side of the 

 large figure on this slab, or lintel, that led my learned 

 friend to make the suggestien that the antennae, attached to 

 the sign for honey, might possibly exist on other sculptured 

 Maya reliefs. As I have stated, it exists in the manuscript 

 Troano (see Plates 34 and 25), and a sculptured slab in the 

 Smithsonian Institution has it represented by an incised 

 square, to which the antenuEe are attached (see A, Fig. 6). 

 It is the most demotic form of the hieratic-scribe-sculptor's 

 work that I have examined. The glyph in question is to be 

 seen on a cast which is now hanging on the stairway-wall of 

 the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, to the right- 

 hand side of the long gallery in which Professor Thomas 

 Wilson has arranged his interesting synoptical cases. No 

 record is attached to the cast, but by its character and tech- 

 nique it seems to be a copy of one of Charnay's squeezes, 

 probably from Lorillard City. The antennae glyph fre- 

 quently appears near representations of corn leaves, and as 

 we have the day-signs Ixim and ik, the latter, there is but 

 little doubt, being but an abbreviation of ikil = the sting 



