I was at first inclined to adopt Dr Seler's suggestion that the distinguishing feature of the symbol might have been taken from the dog's ears as given in the codices. However, a more thorough examination leads me to doubt this suggestion. The little black clots or blocks on the bent line appear here, as in the _chicchan_ symbol, to be the most prominent and essential elements of the symbol. As they do not appear in the ear figures, it seems impossible that the character should have been derived from these figures. It is more likely that they represent the knots on a string or cord; and this supposition appears to be sustained by the fact that the Maya word _hok_, according to Brasseur, signifies "a knot, hook;" and _hokal_ "to be knotted, formed of knots." Perez says "_hok_, el lazo formado para anudar;" "_hokol_, lazarse para anudarse la cuerda." If this supposition be correct, the symbol is used for the day because of its phonetic value, and without any reference to its original signification. THE ELEVENTH DAY Maya, _chuen_; Tzental, _batz_; Quiche-Cakchiquel, _batz_; Zapotec, _loo_; Nahuatl, _ozomatli_. The symbol of this day is subject to few and slight variations. The form given by Landa, which is also quite common in most of the codices, especially Tro. and Cort., is shown in plate LXV, 64. Slight variants are shown in LXV, 65, 66, and 67. An exceptional and peculiar form from Dres. 32b is seen in LXV, 68. A form from the Perez codex in which an eye is introduced is given at LXV, 69. The character on the Palenque Tablet and some other inscriptions, which is supposed to be the symbol of this day, is shown at LXV, 70, but the proof that it is, in these cases, the day symbol is not so conclusive as that in regard to other day symbols, as no method of bringing it into relation with the other time symbols of the inscriptions has been found. A closely corresponding form is seen in the symbol for the mouth _Tzec_ as found in the Dres. Codex (see plate LXV, 71). If the glyphs are in any sense phonetic, it is probable that in the comb-like appendage to this symbol (Landa's _ca_) we have the _'c_ (_'k_) sound, and that the variation in the main character from the usual _chuen_ glyph (in having the bounding line open and turned right and left at the top) is indicative of the variation in the phonetic value. The explanation of the symbol, which replaces the eye in the dog or panther like figure in Tro. 32c and 33c, and is alluded to by Dr Seler in this connection (LXVI, 1), has already been given under the discussion of the "Third Day." There, as I have shown, it probably indicates the Maya word _choco_, "heat, warmth," alluding to the hot, dry season which parches and shrivels up the growing corn. This explanation retains the phonetic value of the symbol, and it appears also to be entirely consistent with the figures found in connection with it.