NUMERAL WORSHIP AND BUILDING UP IMAGES, ETC. 



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NUMERIC EAR ORNAMENTS. 



The superfix of the ear ornament is here indicated to be 9 in every case except the 

 last, where it must represent 18. The center part is either 20 or 10, accordingly as 

 there is one or two signs for 2 tinderneath it. 



To extend this showing to every detail of the personages and ornamentation would 

 carry me too far from my main purpose, but I am convinced that the same numerative 

 principle runs undeviatingly throughout the whole range of Maya pictorial and graphic 

 art ; in short, as I said at the beginning of this chapter, the entire Archaic fabrication 

 — glyphs, period signs, ornaments, idols, stelas, altars and altar-pieces — was built up 

 of numeral signs and dedicated to number-worship. 



