294 ANIMAL FIGURES IN THE MAYA CODICES 



Animals occur very infrequently in this section. The quetzal 

 and two vultures are noted seated on top of an oven-Hke cover- 

 ing under which is the head of god C, probably representing 

 the idol. There are several other occupations shown in this 

 codex such as weaving (79c) and the gathering of the sap of the 

 rubber tree (102b), but as animals do not occur in any connec- 

 tion with these operations, it is not necessary to dwell upon them. 



Animal glyphs. It remains finally to speak of the various 

 animals which are represented in glyph form as well as drawn 

 in full in the pictures proper. The creatures pictured in the 

 codices are often accompanied by their glyphs which appear in 

 the lines of signs directly above. In many cases, the animal 

 pictured below is not represented by its glyph above and, vice 

 versa, the animal glyph may appear without its picture below. 

 The same is seen also in connection with the representation of 

 the gods and their glyphs. Both the picture and the glyph 

 usually appear but either may appear alone. Many times when 

 the glyph, either of a god or an animal, is shown with no accom- 

 panying picture, the reason seems to be that there is no room 

 for the latter on account of the numerical calculations which 

 take up all the space. 



There are some animals in the codices which are represented 

 by glyphs very frequently. Among these are the screech owl 

 (the Moan, the bird of death), which has several different glyphs 

 by which it is recognized, the dog which, in addition to its own 

 glyph, may be represented by the day sign Oc, the king vulture, 

 the turtle, the bee (if we consider the day sign Cauac stands for 

 this insect), and the centipede. Among the animals whose 

 glyphs only seldom appear may be mentioned the macaw, the 

 peccary, the tree-toad (god P), the quetzal, and the jaguar. 

 The glyph for the black vulture (Tro-Cortesianus 26c), the ape 

 (Tro-Cortesianus 88c), the deer (Peresianus 10), the eagle (Tro- 

 Cortesianus 107c), and the serpent (Tro-Cortesianus 106c) 

 seem to appear but once. It might also be well to mention in 

 this place the glyphs for various molluscs which are used not to 

 represent the shell but to give the value of zero to the numerical 

 calculations. 



