. Bulletin. Ethnology. Fig. 50. Maya hieroglyphs of the bat god. beast has torn off and holds in his hand in a and 6, while in c the beast devours the torn-out heart and the blood. It is worth noticing that in a and , figure 50, the picture of the bat as the designation of this period of time, which fell in the latter half of our September. That this designation was also known to the other Maya ti-ibes we learn from the date (c, figure 50), compounded of the date of a day (8 Ahau) and a uinal date (the 8th of Zotz), which I copy from one of the Copan stela* as given in Maudslay's great woi'
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Fig. 50. Maya hieroglyphs of the bat god. beast has torn off and holds in his hand in a and 6, while in c the beast devours the torn-out heart and the blood. It is worth noticing that in a and , figure 50, the picture of the bat as the designation of this period of time, which fell in the latter half of our September. That this designation was also known to the other Maya ti-ibes we learn from the date (c, figure 50), compounded of the date of a day (8 Ahau) and a uinal date (the 8th of Zotz), which I copy from one of the Copan stela* as given in Maudslay's great woi'; In the same Avay the uinal Zotz is given, beyond a doubt, on the altar slabs of Palenque; for instance, on the " Biologia CentraU-Americana. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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