certain class of food animals seems to be assigned to each. The
four following symbols are those used to express this idea:

[Illustration: No. 29.]

_Ceh_? The symbol for game quadrupeds. The same idea appears to be
indicated by the folded and tied quarter of a deer, as shown in No.
11. The head shown in the symbol is probably intended for that of
the deer, though more like that of the rabbit.

[Illustration: No. 30.]

_Cutz_ or _Cax_. The symbol for game birds, the head being probably
that of the wild turkey (_Cutz_ or _Ahcutz_).

[Illustration: No. 31.]

_Huh._ The symbol for food reptiles or the iguana.

As the Kan figure is admitted to be a maize or bread symbol, it is
readily seen that the object in view in connecting it with the animal
figures is to indicate that they are used for food, and hence are proper
offerings to the gods, which is equivalent to saying, to the priests.

[Illustration: No. 32.]

_Cay._ The symbol for food fishes, or fishes in general, though as
often on the Kan symbol or without any suffix.

[Illustration: No. 33.]

_Cutz_ or _Cax_. In one of the two series of these food symbols, in
Plates 29-31 of the Dresden Codex, in place of the bird symbol No.
30 is that shown in symbol No. 33. It probably has, as Rosny
supposes, the same signification, a supposition which is
strengthened by the fact that it is found in the bird series on
Plates 16_c_ and 17_c_, same codex, and is represented by _o_ in the
preceding diagram.

SYMBOLS OF DEITIES.

[Illustration: No. 34.]

_Ekchuah._ The symbol or hieroglyph of the deity named "Ekchuah" by
the Mayas and considered the patron and protector of peddlers or
traveling merchants (Fig. 380).

[Illustration: FIG. 380. The god Ekchuah, after the Troano and Cortesian
Codices.]

The signification of the name of this deity is "The Black Calabash." The
form and the shading of the symbol render it more than probable that it
is a conventional representation of a divided or halved black calabash or
gourd, cut for the purpose of forming it into a cup or dipper, which, in
this form, is considered a symbol of this deity.

The evidence upon which this determination is based is that the symbol
constantly accompanies the red mouthed, black deity. It is found, with a
single exception, only in the Manuscript Troano, and chiefly in Plates II
to V, relating to the traveling merch