. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. a k Fig. 105. Glyphs of animals and month Mol, from Maya codices. If we now turn to the Dresden Maya manuscript we find the connec-tion of the snail with the deities of death here plainly indicated. Itappears here on the head of the true death god at least live times(pages 9c, 12b, 13b, 14a, and 23c). It also occurs elsewhere. The godD (following Doctor Schellhass designations, which I hope will begenerally adopted) has the snail on his head, page 5c. This god, withthe face of an old man, occurs here between two pictur
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. a k Fig. 105. Glyphs of animals and month Mol, from Maya codices. If we now turn to the Dresden Maya manuscript we find the connec-tion of the snail with the deities of death here plainly indicated. Itappears here on the head of the true death god at least live times(pages 9c, 12b, 13b, 14a, and 23c). It also occurs elsewhere. The godD (following Doctor Schellhass designations, which I hope will begenerally adopted) has the snail on his head, page 5c. This god, withthe face of an old man, occurs here between two pictures of the deathgod. On page 9a we see him, again with the snail, between a vultureand a woman with bandaged eyes (a, figure 105). fObstemaxn] TORTOISE AND SNAIL IN MAYA LITERATURE 429 The sea snail appears very curiously on page 3Tb. Here it lies inthe water and appears to be in the act of giving birth to a tiny per-son (female?). I can not discover a genuine hieroglyph of the snail in all thesepassages. Doctor Schellhas expresses the opinion, which is worthyof considera
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