. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. take the character which lookslike a key actually to be one, and consider it as an expression of theword tlatlati, which means he who hides something, or shuts up orguards something (el que guarda alguna cosa, o el que esconde algo, 218 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 28 Molina), for in the Xaltepetlapan list of names of persons (Manu-scrit Mexicain number 3, Bibliotheque Nationale) I find mention ofa man named Juan Tlatlatin, who is described by the hieroglyph a,figure 48; that is, by a hand holding up a key. The
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. take the character which lookslike a key actually to be one, and consider it as an expression of theword tlatlati, which means he who hides something, or shuts up orguards something (el que guarda alguna cosa, o el que esconde algo, 218 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 28 Molina), for in the Xaltepetlapan list of names of persons (Manu-scrit Mexicain number 3, Bibliotheque Nationale) I find mention ofa man named Juan Tlatlatin, who is described by the hieroglyph a,figure 48; that is, by a hand holding up a key. The first personfrom the right seems to be hieroglyphically designated by two hornson his head. His name may therefore have been Quaquauh (see band <?, same figure), which in the list of names of persons (ManuscritMexicain number 3, Bibliotheque Rationale) denote persons of thatname. The second person seems to be hieroglyphically designatedby a stone (te-tl) and water (a-tl). The third person has no hiero-glyph, and I can not interpret the circular design in front of
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