he Middle, Above, Below, and Four Quarters; of thirteen, _i. e._ of
the duplication or male and female or celestial and terrestrial divisions
of the Above, Below and Four Quarters plus the Middle.

Surrounding the central head are four square divisions arranged in two
separate parts, each of which includes what appears to be in one case the
right, and in the other the left, conventionalized claw (forepaw?) of an
animal armed with hooked nails, such as Mictlantecuhtli, the lord of the
North, is represented with.

The square compartments contain symbols of the four elements so disposed
that air and water are appropriately associated with the hand to the right
(=male region) and fire and earth with the hand to the left side (=the
female region) of the central head. But this is not all, for another
carefully devised relation between the elements likewise appears upon
careful examination. In the middle, carved above the central face and
between the symbols for air and fire, is the conventionalized "ray of the
Sun," or pyramid which typifies "that which ascends or is above" the upper
elements and the Above. As its opposite we find below, situated between
the symbols of earth and water, a ring with a concentric circle
representing the drop of water="that which descends." As the Moon was
inseparably associated with water and the Below, it is doubtlessly
included in the symbolism.

One more point which will receive due attention in my monograph remains to
be briefly noticed. As the symbol for air=east is situated to the right of
the symbol for north, and the earth=west is to its left, it is clear that
the central face is conceived as looking down from above upon the
spectator. It is only when the stone is considered as placed face downward
that the symbols assume their proper positions as regards the cardinal
points. This reversal, which is the natural result of the association of
the east and south with the right hand of the middle personage, suggests
that the monolith may have been originally designed to be let into the
flat or slanting ceiling of a building. As a parallel instance I will
state that, some years ago, Senor Troncoso pointed out to me a fact he had
noticed, namely, that the relative positions of the cardinal points on the
Fejervary chart were reversed and that it must have been intended to be
looked at from underneath.

Each of the element symbols is accompanied by four numerals placed in the
angles of the squ