MORLEY— MAYA SUPPLEMENTARY SERIES 



sign is found here. On the contrary, as an examination of the accom- 

 panying plates will show, a number of entirely different glyphs occupy 

 this third position, to which the writer has consequently given the 

 general name "Glyph X". 



Here indeed is a sign of first importance. The very fact of its 

 wide variation (see Glyph X, pis. I to x) and that it is found in the 

 very earliest texts (see Nos. I, 9, 57-61) indicates that it must have 

 contributed a vital and distinguishing part to the meaning of every 

 Supplementary Series. 



In spite of the variety of the signs occupying this third position, 

 however, certain definite glyphs frequently recur, the commonest 

 being a character which has a pair of crossed legs as its principal 



element V_y I . This sign alone occurs in eleven texts, or 13 



per cent of all those under observation. 1 In six of these cases the 

 subsidiary element is the moon-sign, usually with a pair of flanking 



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wings l y^h oil; 2 and in the other five a grotesque head, 3 possibly 



1 l (SEES' n) 



the death's head 



Another glyph, only slightly less common in this position, is the 

 head of God C which occurs nine times and always with a coefficient 

 of o, 1, or 3. 4 The head of the god is held either in the extended jaws 

 of a serpent 5 or in the same elbow element as the rodent's head in 

 Glyph B. 6 The coefficient o occurs thrice; 7 1 is found twice, 8 and 3 

 twice. 9 There are two doubtful head variant coefficients. 10 These two 

 elements are the only ones that recur in the third position with any 

 frequency, although other signs appear more than once, as for example 

 the glyph shown in Nos. 27, 48, and 57. 



The only other occurrences of coefficients with Glyph X are in 

 Nos. 53, 54, and 56, all of which are o. 



Unlike Glyph B, the glyphs in the third position of the Supple- 

 mentary Series doubtless have highly specialized meanings, and they 

 doubtless refer to a group of facts — probably astronomical subjects 

 — which was universally recognized and recorded. Take, for example, 

 such similar signs as Glyphs X in Nos. 27, 48, and 57, just noted, 



1 See Nos. I, 13, 17, 20, 23, 28, 32, 37, 55, 59, and 60. 8 Nos. 14, 16, 47, and 50. 



J Nos. 1, 13, 32, 37, 59, and 60. 7 Nos. 49, 66, and 80. 



* Nos. 17, 20, 23, 28, and 55. 8 Nos. 16 and 47. 



4 Nos. 8, 14, 16, 26, 47, 49, 50, 66, and 80. ■ Nos. 14 and 50. 



« Nos. 8, 26, 49, 66, and 80. I0 Nos. 8 and 26. 



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