Representation of deities of the Maya manuscripts (1904)
Schellhas, Paul, 1859- · Cambridge, Mass. : Pub. by the Museum · leaf 49
od is pictured armed and in warlike attitude. Both in Dr. 14b and 14c he wears a bird on his head and has a Kan in his hand. According to Forstemann, his day is Akbal, darkness, night. Cyrus Thomas (Aids to the Study of the Maya Codices, in the 6th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology,… … 45. 46. 47. 48. God M’s hieroglyph is Figs. 45, 46; it seems to represent an eye rimmed with black, though the figure of the god himself displays an entirely different drawing of the eye (see Fig. 47). The god is found in the Dresden manuscript only three times, namely in Dr. 16b (with a bone in…
