sentatives of Below, 231;
in pictorial art, 232;
on portrait-statue of Stela E, at Quirigua, 232;
bearded personages on stelae were high-priests, etc., 232;
beardless effigies indicated different caste, 232;
bearded Spaniards regarded, by Mexicans, descendants of founders of
their civilization, 266;
emblem of sovereignty in Egypt, 426.

Bee, Maya word for=cab;
Cab glyph, 110.

Beetle (see Scarab).

Beltram de Santa Rosa, Fray, 89, 101.

Benares, temple of;
sacred cow, 316.

Bentham, 476.

Bentley, 300.

Berichten der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft, 478.

Berlin Museum, 380, 417, 423, 424, 426, 427, 457, 460, 507.

Berra, Orozco y, 264, 268, 269.

B. N. MS. (Biblioteca Nationale MS.), same as "Lyfe of the Indians."

Biblioteca Nazionale Manuscript (in press), 7, 9, 11, 12, 34, 37, 39, 44,
45, 46, 47, 54, 57, 64, 66, 71, 99, 102, 111, 112, 125, 128,
130, 189, 241, 279, 505.

Biot, 298, 301.

Bird, title of Mexican war chief, 25;
humming-bird in symbolism, 39;
with spider, serpent and cross on shell gorget, 49;
Bird-god, borne on litter, 71;
ancient Yucatan in shape of bird, 86;
illustrated social organization in Mexico, 87;
totem of Incas, 157;
on arms of Mexico, 157;
on sculptures at Tiahuanaco, 167;
man-bird represented ruler of upper division of State in Mexico, 185;
typical of lords of four provinces in Mexico, 190;
blue-bird, Mexican symbol, 190;
name of Nahuatl tribe, 206, 214;
three most powerful tribes of Yucatan have bird names, 217;
on altar at Copan, 228;
in sculptures at Palenque, and in Mexican Fejervary chart, 235;
mask in Mexican festival, 242;
totem of the Air people in Mexico, 254;
recapitulation of meaning of symbol, 282;
use of as symbol, 296;
vulture, symbol of Upper Egypt, 368.

Birdwood, Geo., 314, 575.

Blackfoot Indians, myth about Ursa Major, 511.

Black, Robert, 526.

Black Sun, in B. N. MS., 54.

Blood offerings, meaning of, 98, 99, 442.

Boas, Franz, 147.

Boat, in sculptured bas-relief at Chichen-Itza, 160;
in Babylonian symbolism, 366;
in Egyptian symbolism, 403;
Egyptian, Grecian, Phoenician in early times, 491.

Bochica or Ida-can-zas, culture hero of the Muyscas;
personification of the Sun or Above, 171.

Bodleian MS., 44, 90.

Bodleian Library at Oxford, 508.

Boeckh, 488.

Bogota, dual government, calendar, etc., 171.

Bohn, 486.

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