d elsewhere in Yucatan sculptured figures of ocelots
supporting circular vessels have been found and there are interesting
instances of the combination of the human figure with ocelot=Balam
attributes. One monolithic figure, discovered at Chichen-Itza by Mr. A. P.
Maudslay, and belonging to the category of the recumbent statues bearing
circular vase-like receptacles, already described, exhibits a human head
and form, whilst the body is covered with a spotted skin. In the
sculptured image of Mictlan-tecuhtli (fig. 19) a human head is accompanied
by limbs of equal length-terminating in wild beasts' talons. The positions
of the limbs are better understood when compared with the following
illustration, to which I shall revert (fig. 51). Meanwhile, I shall merely
remark that in both of these curious bas-reliefs we seem to have images of
the quadruple terrestrial and celestial governments. Fig. 51, which is a
corrected drawing of one of those contained in Leon y Gama's "Descripcion
de las dos Piedras," furnishes an interesting example, in accord with the
image of Mictlantecuhtli, of the employment of the group of five as a
symbol of the centre and four quarters, and exhibits four limbs associated
with four heads (the quarters and their chiefs), while the hands hold two
other heads, symbolical of the dual rulers of the State.

Two facts which throw an interesting light upon the growth of native
symbolism are worth mentioning here. As a symbol on the head of
Mictlan-tecuhtli, the lord of the North, two representations of a
centipede are distinguishable. In Nahuatl the name of this is
"centzonmaye," literally, four hundred hands. It can thus be seen that the
idea of one body with a multitude of hands had occurred to the native
philosophers as a suitable allegory for their conception of a central
celestial and terrestrial rule which guided the activity of innumerable
appointed hands and dispensed, through these, not only life and favors but
also death or chastisement.

[Illustration.]

Figure 51.

Before proceeding farther we must consider tree-symbolism in ancient
America. According to Molina the Inca Yupanqui (surnamed the left-handed)
ordered the temple of Quisuar-cancha to be made: quisuar=a tree, the
_Buddleia Incana_, cancha=place of. Salcamayhua (_op. cit._, p. 77), who
attributes the building of this temple to Manco Capac, states that these
two trees, which