kindling of the sacred fire of the fire
drill. For the association of four Mexican tribes with four tribal
trees and totemic birds, see fig. 53, and note that the central
figure, enclosed in a square, is represented as though four streams
of blood, flowing from the four angles, converged in his person,
constituting him the "Four in One."

149 The only mention of a movable axle or hub that I know of in Mexican
chronicles is the cylinder of wood, described on p. 24 as being
shaped like a mortar. The only native illustration I have met which
suggests the native employment of some kind of revolving press or
axle is the curious and clumsy apparatus figured on pp. 11 and 12 of
the Selden MS. preserved at the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and
reproduced by Kingsborough. An examination of this strange
mechanical contrivance apparently associated with a monkey=ozomatli,
and the sacrifice of two prisoners, will be found as interesting as
it is puzzling.

150 In a paper read to the Section of Anthropology of the New York
meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
Mr. Stansbury Hagar communicated the interesting results of his
study of the Salcamayhua tablet which has been alluded to on p. 162
of the present publication. With his kind authorization I take
pleasure in citing here his interpretation of the name of the
Peruvian Creator, an abbreviation of which is inscribed on the plate
or tablet. It will be found to accord with that given by Sir
Clements B. Markham (History of Peru, p. 20), but to be more
explicit. According to his view the name should be analyzed as
follows: illa=light, lightning=fire; ticci=foundation, brick=earth;
uayra _i. e._ huaii=air, wind; cocha=lake=water.

"Illa ticci uayra cocha would thus mean: the universal spirit
defined by naming what seemed to a people unacquainted with
scientific chemistry to be the four ultimate elements."

Referring to the cognate Aymara language, Mr. Hagar interprets the
name pachaya chachic as "source, lit. male ancestor, grandfather of
all things," and states that the opening inscription on the tablet
should therefore read: "Spirit of Fire, Earth, Air and Water, source
of all things" ... that is to say "image of the source whence heaven
and earth ha