. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. rrot feather(or one artificially dyed yellow). The front part consists of twosquares, each of Avhich sIioavs tAvo little tongues put together after themanner of a sAvastika, of fylfot, which is undoubtedly meant, like h 208 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28 and i, figure 46, to express the word il-hui-tl, that is, the suns orb , day , festival . I drew attention to this figure some years ago,fflbut did not at that time interpret it correctly. It occurs on Mexicansculptures in the Berlin Royal Museum of Ethnology (
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. rrot feather(or one artificially dyed yellow). The front part consists of twosquares, each of Avhich sIioavs tAvo little tongues put together after themanner of a sAvastika, of fylfot, which is undoubtedly meant, like h 208 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28 and i, figure 46, to express the word il-hui-tl, that is, the suns orb , day , festival . I drew attention to this figure some years ago,fflbut did not at that time interpret it correctly. It occurs on Mexicansculptures in the Berlin Royal Museum of Ethnology (7, figure 45) onthe piece opposite the picture of the chalchiuitl, the luminous, bril-liant bead of jadeite. This simple verticillate symbol (n, same fig-ure) also occurs on the celestial shields in Maya manuscripts inconnection with all sorts of variants of the sun hieroglyph, o. The last person on the imperfect right side of the fragment iscalled, in the accompanying note, Antonio Totoli Pilhuehue. Totoli-pil means the young turkey , and this is expressed in the hiero-. o p Fig. 46. Mexican symbols for various articles. glyph by the picture of a bird with short wings. But I am not clearas to the other element below it or what syllable it is meant to all that we can make out and determine on fragment VIII(plate xin), it is perfectly obvious that it is very closely analogous, onthe one hand, to our fragment VI (plate xi) and, on the other hand,to page 34 of the Goupil-Boban atlas and the so-called Vergara most striking characteristic of all these manuscripts is the pecul-iar sj^stem of notation—the ones being denoted by marks instead ofdots and always combined in groups of five—and also the complicated a Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie, 1888, v. 20, 53 and 55.
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