The character immediately below the one above mentioned and belonging to the same series is shown in plate LXIV, 14. It may be interpreted _mamachah_, "to make flat by repeated strokes." The phonetic value of the parts is obtained in this way. The upper character with two wings is Landa's _ma_, except that the circular wings contain the lines or strokes which the bishop has omitted, and which appear to indicate the _m_ sound and are observed in the _Imix_ symbol. Colonel Mallery, comparing this with the sign of negation made by the Indians and that of the Egyptians given by Champollion (our plate LXIV, 15), concludes that it is derived from the symmetrically extended arms with the hands curved slightly downward. This will furnish an explanation of the strokes in the terminal circles. The left of the two lower characters is almost identical with the symbol for the month _Mac_ (plate LXIV, 4), omitting the _ca_ glyph. The lower right-hand character is similar to the symbol for the month _Chuen_. We thus obtain legitimately the sounds _ma ma-ch_, whether we consider the parts truly phonetic or only ikonomatic. For further illustration of the use of this symbol and evidence of phoneticism, the reader is referred to the article in the _American Anthropologist_ above mentioned. The fact that a symbol is used to denote a given Maya day does not prove, supposing it to be in any sense phonetic, that the Maya name gives the original equivalent. It may have been adopted to represent the older name in the Tzental, or borrowed from the Zapotec calendar and retained in the Maya calendar for the new name given in that tongue. However, the symbol for this first day, which has substantially the same name in the Maya and Tzental, appears to represent the name in these languages and to be in some degree phonetic, _m_ being the chief phonetic element represented by it. The crosshatching in the little circle at the top, seen in some of the older forms found in the inscriptions, may indicate, as will later be seen, the _x_ or _ch_ sound, thus giving precisely the radical _m-x_. It may be said, in reference to the signification of the names of the day in different dialects, that no settled or entirely satisfactory conclusion has been reached in regard to either.