Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; (1904) (14778116451)

Identifier: mexicancentralamer00bowd (find matches)
Title: Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Bowditch, Charles P. (Charles Pickering), 1842-1921 Seler, Eduard, 1849-1922 Förstemann, Ernst Wilhelm, 1822-1906 Schellhas, Paul, b. 1859 Sapper, Karl, 1866-1945 Dieseldorff, Erwin Paul, 1868-1940 Wesselhoeft, Selma Parker, Alberta M Thomas, Cyrus, 1825-1910
Subjects: Mayas Maya calendar Calendar, Mexican
Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute



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SELER) MEXICAN PICTURE WRITINGS FRAGMENTS III, IV 185 zaca-tl, grass teo-tl, god and the final syllable tla or tlan,which has the significance of a locative. Oceotl, jaguar is a verycommon proper name. The last picture in the series is again a house with a stone roof;but the place hierogly))h, which nuist have been there originally, ismissing. A personage is drawn in front of the house, whose name isgiven above by the representation of a stone knife (tecpatl). Here,too, there is a note, but it is almost illegible. The place name, in particular, can not be deciphered. I read: Nica mazap Ic yn toca . The notes, few words as they contain, are remarkable on account oftheir dialect form. In classic Aztec, nican means here ; tococol,our ancestor; ocelotl, the jaguar. The writer who added thenotes on our fragment III (plate viii) drops the final nasal after theshort a in nican, and writes nica and nicah. And thus yahuayohcaand zacateotlah probabh^ stand for yauayocan and zacateotlan. Afterth