1881.] 6Z9 [Brinton. 



18. Xa-ta zak, xa-ta amag, u pam cli'a chi ch'a vach, at Qabauil ! 

 So long as liglit, so long as time, (be) its body before thy mouth be- 

 fore thy face, thou God ! 



1. Acarroc is an interjection of admiration or awe. Atooli is the plural 

 form with intensive signification of ato, beautiful, fine, good. 



2. Oanal-raxal, literally "yellowness, greenness." I shall refer to this 

 combination in a later paragraph. 



At pu, thou and, read "and thou;" the copulative conjunction in 

 Kiche, like the Latin que, often follows the first word of the connected 

 clause. 



3. Ch'a tzilo7i; both Ximenez and Brasseur translate this "turn thee ;" 

 but this requires tzeloJi, and is less germane to the sense of the passage. 

 The color terms, O'ax, gan again appear in their metaphorical senses of 

 prosperity. 



4. VinaMric, form the root vin, to increase, gain. 



9. Qaxtolconel, the liar ; qaxtog is the usual word for demonio, diahlo, in 

 the religious language. 



10. M'e hoxonic, vi'e gatonic; Ximenez, and following him Brasseur, 

 translate this, "May they not fornicate, may they not be brought before 

 the judge ;" but the meanings in the text are also given to these words in 

 Ximenez' own Tesoro de las tres Lenguas, and are much more likely to 

 have been the original ones. 



14. A cuil av'itzmal; thy locks, thy hair. This probably has reference 

 to a myth or superstition about the storm god's strength, lying, like 

 Samson, in his hair. 



16. Pizom Oagal ; Ximenez translates "envoltorio de gloria." . 



17. Atimch ToMl ; read: "And thou (also) O Tohil, etc. Pam, from 

 pa, in, means "the contents of anything hollow," hence entrails, and 

 generally belly. Ximenez translates it here vientre, but "body " is proba- 

 bly nearer the right sense, as it stands in antithesis to lieart in the previous 

 line. 



There is another invocation in the Popol Vuh containing some other 

 names of deity, a literal translation of which I shall give, after Brasseur : 



" Hail ! Creator, Maker ! Wlio sees and hears iis ! Do 

 " not leave iis ; do not desert us. Qabauil, in tlie sky, on 

 " earth. Soul of the Sky, Soul of the Earth. Give us children, 

 " posterity [as long as] the sun goes, and the light. Let the 

 " seed grow, the light come. Many green paths, green roads, 

 " give us ; in peace, in white peace, be the tribe ; in welfare, 

 " in white welfare, be the tribe ; give us then happy life and 

 " existence, O Hurakan, Chipi-cakulha, Eaxa-cakulha, Chipi- 

 "nanauac, Raxa-nanauac, Yoc, Hunahpu, Tepeu, Gucumatz, 

 " Alom, Qaholom, Xpiyacoc, Xmucane, Grandmother of the 



