. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. Alia, t Fig. 52. Maya hieroglyphs of the bat god. resembling an alligators and with hands, between whose outstretchedfore and hind legs various deities or mythologic figures are rep-resented. The bat here begins the series of personages represented onthe east side, while on the west side, opposite to it, a bird with speckledfeathers and parrot like beak is the first of the series—possibly thecakix, the Arara, worshipped as a deity by the Ah-zotzil clan, thebat people , who were allied to the The bat occurs
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. Alia, t Fig. 52. Maya hieroglyphs of the bat god. resembling an alligators and with hands, between whose outstretchedfore and hind legs various deities or mythologic figures are rep-resented. The bat here begins the series of personages represented onthe east side, while on the west side, opposite to it, a bird with speckledfeathers and parrot like beak is the first of the series—possibly thecakix, the Arara, worshipped as a deity by the Ah-zotzil clan, thebat people , who were allied to the The bat occurs with greatest frequency in a hieroglyph some formsof which I have given in «, figure 53. Besides the head of the bat,which is sometimes very characteristically reproduced, with its mem-branous nose leaf and hairy ear, the double element ben-nVis alsopresent in this hieroglyph, which perhaps—for it also occurs with Xahilas Cakchikel-Annalen, yace cited, sec. 10. 240 BUKEAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 28 others in the hieroglyph of the sun god—is an expression of
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