e data of Landa, but they are henceforth easy to read, for I have
had occasion to determine, after a certain fashion, the value of
the greater part of them in a former publication.

These characters are traced in the following order, commencing, for
example, with Muluc and continuing from left to right: 6, 2, 18,
13, 17, 14, 5, 1, 16, 12, 8, 4, 20, 15, 11, 7, 19, 3, 9, 10. * * *

In the four compartments of the Tablet appear the same cyclic signs
again in two series. I will not stop to dwell upon them, not having
discovered the system of their arrangement.

Besides these cyclic signs no other katounes are found on the
Tablet, except four groups which have attracted my attention since
the beginning of my studies, and which I have presented, not
without some hesitation, as serving to note the four cardinal
points. I do not consider my first attempt at interpretation as
definitely demonstrated, but it seems to me that it acquires by the
study of the pages in question of the _Codex Cortesianus_, a new
probability of exactitude.

These four katounic groups are here in fact arranged in the
following manner:

[Illustration: FIG. 1.--The four cardinal symbols.]

Now, not only do these groups include, as I have explained, several
of the phonetic elements of Maya words known to designate the four
cardinal points, but they occupy, besides, the place which is
necessary to them in the arrangement (orientation), to wit:

West.
S N
o o
u r
t t
h h
. .
East.

I have said, moreover, in my _Essay_, that certain characteristic
symbols of the gods of the four cardinal points (the _Bacab_) are
found placed beside the katounic groups, which occcpy[TN-2] me at
this moment, in a manner which gives a new confirmation of my
interpretation.

On Plates 23, 24, 25, and 26 of the _Codex Cortesianus_, where the
same groups and symbols are seen reproduced of which I have just
spoken, the hierogrammat has drawn four figures identical in shape
and dress. These four figures represent the "god of the long nose."
Beside the first, who holds in his hand a flaming torch, appears a
series of katounes, at the head of which is the sign _Kan_ (symbol
of the sou