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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