. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. Fig. 51. Maya hieroglyphs of the bat god. for each of the five divisions. Among them occurs the hieroglyph,which—with a note of interrogation, it is true—I claim as the hiero-glyph of the bat god (see <z, figure 50). I think that I also recognize the bat god in the initial hieroglyph ofthe group which I reproduce in «, figure 51. The character kin, sun ,is before the mouth of the beast. With reference to a hieroglyphwhich I shall discuss later I am tempted to interpret it as a swallow-ing up of light, that is, an ob
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. Fig. 51. Maya hieroglyphs of the bat god. for each of the five divisions. Among them occurs the hieroglyph,which—with a note of interrogation, it is true—I claim as the hiero-glyph of the bat god (see <z, figure 50). I think that I also recognize the bat god in the initial hieroglyph ofthe group which I reproduce in «, figure 51. The character kin, sun ,is before the mouth of the beast. With reference to a hieroglyphwhich I shall discuss later I am tempted to interpret it as a swallow-ing up of light, that is, an obscuring of the sun. Finally, it has occurred to me that possibly the initial hieroglyphof the two groups which I give in b, and which, on account of thepicture accompanying it, I formerly explained as the hieroglyph ofa bird of prey, may also refer to the bat. For we have here, as in the SELER] THE MAYA BAT GOD 239 hieroglyph of the uinal Zotz, the character akbal, night, over theeye, as an eyebrow. Even the bat ears and the wrinkled corner of themouth seem to be pr
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