Chapter X: Xibalba, 42, 45, 48, 49

Y

_Yaqui_ nation, 48.

_Yaxché_, sacred tree among the Mayas, 124.
-- origin of the cruz-ansata, of the cone as symbol of the mystic Tau,
132.

Z

_Zend-avesta_, 28.

_Zoroaster_, institutes the mysteries of Mithra, 27, 28.
-- his explanation of the triangular arch, 62.

_Zuñi_ Indians, 47, 48.

Notes

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[1] From drawings and photographs made by the author, and engraved by the
Moss Engraving Co., by the new process of Mr. John C. Moss.

[2] An interpretation of the Maya legend explanatory of the illustration
may not be amiss, inasmuch as it shows that the serpent was the symbol
of the country. Beginning at the top of the column, it reads as
follows:

[Symbol] [Symbol] [Symbol] [Symbol] [Symbol]
_Ahau_ _Eb_ _Kan_ _cib_ _Lamat_
_A-ha-u_ _Heb_ _Kanaan_ _cib_ _Lam-a-ti_
that is literally: He-water-Basin turn abundant fluid submerge
the land.

Freely translated,

_The Master of the basin of water turns it: abundant fluid submerges
the land._

A glance at the illustration will suffice to show that the
interpretation is correct. In my work "The Monuments of Mayax," etc., I
give a more complete explanation of it.

[3]

The legend reads commencing from the top of the left hand column--

[Symbol] [Symbol] [Symbol] [Symbol] [Symbol] [Symbol]
_Can_ _Ahau_ _Cimen_ _eb_ for _heb_ _Ezanab_ _Kan_
the King dead forcing its earthquake has risen
master of the basin way
of water

(beginning again at the top of the second column)
[Symbol] [Symbol] [Symbol] [Symbol] [Symbol] [Symbol]
_Can_ _oc_ _cib_ _ik_ _lamat_ _ix_
foot sank air--wind filled up crater--or bosom
of the volcanoes

[Symbol] [Symbol] [Symbol] [Symbol] [Symbol] [Symbol]
_uac_ _luumilob_ _umukan_ _can_ _kak-mul_ _Timanik_
six fertile lands umukan four volcano Timanik

Freely translated:

Can, the master of the basin of water, who was dead, forcing his way by
means of the earthquake, has risen. Can's foot sank, the air having
filled up the crater of the volcano. Six fertile lands have appeared in
Umukan (Cuba) and four volcanoes in Timanik (one of the small
Antilles.)

The Maya writers, as the author of the Troano, etc., sometimes
represented the Earth under the figure of an old woman and called it
_mam_--the grandmother. She is here represented holding in her left
hand the sign of the smoke, and darting a javelin emblem of the
volcanic energy, and in her right hand she holds the symbol of the
"Land of the Scorpion" "_Zinaan_," the West India Islands of our days.
The deer head represents the Maya Empire.

[4] The legend literally translated reads as follows:

[Symbol] [Symbol] [Symbol]
that is: _PPeu_, _caban_ for _cabahaan_ has struck again--_bat_--ax.

Freely translated: _PPeu has struck again the tree with his ax_. PPeu
was the name of one of the twelve ancient rulers who governed the
country in times anterior to the great cataclysm during which the
Atlantic island was submerged. Deified after his death he became one of
the protecting genii of the land, whose effigies still adorn the east
façade of the palace at Chichen Itza, where they are placed, between
the eyes, over the trunks of the mastodon's head, and surrounded with
an aureola.

[5] Symbol of the three sons of King Can--represented under the emblem of
the three deer heads--_Uluumil ceh_, "the land of the deer," being one
of the names of the country of the Mayas.