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ya day sign, word for bee, also earth, 109; honey, 110; associated with female principle, 110. Cabal, day-sign, on Copan altar, 227. Caban, Maya day-sign, identical with symbol of earth, 107; figured with leaves of maize, 109; the Below, 227. Caesar, called the Son of the Sun, 440, 470, 537. Cakchiquel Indians of Guatemala, 79; court of, 79; obsidian mirror used as oracle, 80; Annals of, 164; legend suggesting form of government, 172; tribal division associated with calendar, 178, 179; tradition in relation to 7-day period, 182. Calendar systems, Mexican, 7; suggested by Polaris and circumpolar constellations, 25; Maya, origin of, 35; Mexican, monograph on, 53; origin of, 100; ancient Peruvian, 145; among the Muyscas, 171; connection between calendar signs and divisions of the people, 175; a governmental institution, 179; invention of native system by ancient inhabitants of Chiapas, 182; among the Zuni, 205; kept profound secret by priesthood, 205; Maya, 220; fixed term of office for ancient American rulers, 221; Mexican, originated from the fixed market-days, 245; signs identified with different parts of human form, 282; instituted by the Chinese emperor, Yaou, 289, 292; comparison of American and Chinese, 297, 298, 299, 309; Chaldean and Hindoo, 300; Japanese compared with Mexican, 311; Hindu with Mexican, 319; Assyrian and Babylonian, 337, 348, 349; ancient Egyptian, 377, 378; lunar and solar, 439; Esne calendar, 440; Canopus calendar, 441; Central American and Mexican, 528; time when first adopted, 529, 530. Calendar-stone of Mexico, 12; night sun pictured on, 13; symbol of five dots compared with same on recumbent stone figure, 95; market-stone of the City of Mexico, regulated social organization, 245; special work on, by Zelia Nuttall, 246; image of "Great Plan" or Scheme of Organization, 247; figured and described, 248-258; regulated machinery of state, 254; Gama's, Valentine's and Chavero's descriptions, 256; based on observation of Polaris, 257; embodied the idea of a central, dual and quadruple power, etc., 258; contains symbol of union of dual principles of nature, 280. Calendar-swastika, 9, 18, 41 (see Swastika). California Indians, use today two symbols in use by ancient Mexicans and Mayas, _i. e._, flint-knife and "stone yoke," 104, 105. Calli, Nahuatl for we
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