. Bulletin. Ethnology. seler] THE MEXICAN CHRONOLOGY 51 gously with the hieroolyphic men (v, figure 4), which, as I stated above, is the picture of the old earth g-oddess, the earth mother, Ixchel, or Tonantzin (compare the two forms g and //, figure 5, which are used for the bee fiyingdown, in Troano codex, page 9*c/), And, finall}% this conception of the sign Caban also agrees very well with the part played by the hieroglyph Caban in the compound hiero- glyphs in the Maya maiuiscript; for this elemont forms an essential constituent in all hieroglyphs which sj^mbolizc the word "below&quo


. Bulletin. Ethnology. seler] THE MEXICAN CHRONOLOGY 51 gously with the hieroolyphic men (v, figure 4), which, as I stated above, is the picture of the old earth g-oddess, the earth mother, Ixchel, or Tonantzin (compare the two forms g and //, figure 5, which are used for the bee fiyingdown, in Troano codex, page 9*c/), And, finall}% this conception of the sign Caban also agrees very well with the part played by the hieroglyph Caban in the compound hiero- glyphs in the Maya maiuiscript; for this elemont forms an essential constituent in all hieroglyphs which sj^mbolizc the word "below" or. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.


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