Perhaps also the sign No. 153 is the sign of QUETZALCOATL, as something very similar to it is given as his sign in the _Codex Telleriano Remensis_, KINGSBOROUGH, vol. i, Plates I, II, and V (Plate I the best), where he wears it at his waist.
In Plate LXIII of STEPHENS (vol. ii) is a small figure of CUKULCAN which, he calls "Bas Relief on Tablet." WALDECK gives a much larger drawing (incorrect, however, in many details), in which the figure, the "Beau Relief," is seen to wear bracelets high up on the arm. This was a distinguishing sign of QUETZALCOATL (see BANCROFT'S _Native Races_, vol. iii, pp. 249 and 250), and this figure probably is a representation of the Maya divinity. He is on a stool with tigers for supports. The tiger belongs to the attributes which he had in common with TLALOC, and we see again the intimate connection of these divinities--a connection often pointed out by BRASSEUR DE BOURBOURG.
This is the third proper name which has been deciphered. All of them have been pure picture-writing, except in so far as their rebus character may make them in a sense phonetic.
COMPARISON OF THE SIGNS OF THE MAYA MONTHS (LANDA) WITH THE TABLETS.
We have a set of signs for Maya months and days handed down to us by LANDA along with his phonetic alphabet. _A priori_ these are more likely to represent the primitive forms as carved in stone than are the alphabetic hieroglyphs, which may well have been invented by the Spaniards to assist the natives to memorize religious formulæ.[243-*]
BRASSEUR DE BOURBOURG has analyzed the signs for the day and month in his publication on the MS. _Troano_, and the strongest arguments which can be given for their phonetic origin are given by him.
I have made a set of MS. copies of these signs and included them in my card-catalogue, and have carefully compared them with the tablets XXIV and LVI. My results are as follows:
No. 42 is the Maya month _Pop_, beginning July 16. No. 54 is _Zip_??, beginning August 25. No. 47 is _Tzoz_??, beginning September 14. No. 57 is _Tzec_? beginning October 4. No. 44-45 is _Mol_?, beginning December 3. No. 39 is _Yax_, _Zac_, or _Ceh_, beginning January 12, February 1, February 21, respectively.
No. 1804 is _Uo_???? No. 1901 is _Zip_???? No. 1816 is _Tzoz_?? No. 1814 is _Tzec_? No. 1807 is _Mol_? No. 1855 is _Yax_, _Zac_, or _Ceh_. No. 1844 is _Mac_?