The Zapotec name _ape_, which, according to Dr Brinton, may properly be translated by "lightning," or "the lightning flash," is much like the name for "fire" which prevails throughout Oceanica. Commencing with the Malay _api_, we trace it through the Oceanic islands in such forms as _api, lap, yap, nap, yaf_; to New Zealand _kapura_; Tonga and Samoan _afi_, and Hawaiian _ahi_. In the Zapotec words _laari-api-niza_ and _ri-api-laha_, translated "relampage, relampaguear," we find precisely the original form of the Oceanic word for "five." THE TWENTIETH DAY Maya, _ahau_; Tzental, _aghual_; Quiche-Cakchiquel, _hunahpu_; Zapotec, _lao_ or _loo_; Nahuatl, _xochitl_. The symbol for this day, except where evidently imperfectly drawn, is subject to but few and slight changes, that given by Landa corresponding to the form found in the codices. The usual and correct form is shown in LXVIII, 5-7; slight variations are seen in LXVIII, 8 and 9. Dr Seler figures several other varieties, but as these are from plates of the Dresden Codex, where the symbol is in columns, where they are evidently hastily made, without any attempt to have more than one or two in a column complete, they are not given here. The character represented in LXVIII, 10, is from the Tikal inscription, and that in LXVIII, 11, from the Palenque Tablet. [Illustration: PL. LXIX SHELL BEARING MAYA GLYPHS This shell, on which are engraved seven Maya hieroglyphs, was found in Belize and courteously sent to the Bureau of American Ethnology by Sir Alfred Moloney, Governor of British Honduras. The shell is here figured for the purpose of placing it before students of Central American paleography[TN-3]] The Maya and Tzental names signify "king, lord, sovereign." The derivation of the word has been explained in various ways. Brasseur explains it by "the lord of the collar," _ah-au_, as does Dr Brinton; Stoll gives "lord of the cultivated lands," from the Ixil, _avuan_, "to sow." Dr Seler, however, is disposed to derive the name from the masculine prefix _ah_ and _uinic_ or _vinak_, "man." His method of reaching this conclusion is as follows: For the Tzental word _aghual_, standing parallel with the Maya _ahau_, which doubtless corresponds to the abstract form _ahaual_ of the word _ahau_, is to be referred rather to a primitive form _avu_, _a'ku_, _ahu_, than to _ahau_. In the Tzental Pater Noster which Pimental gives, we find the phrase "to us come Thy kingdom (Thy dominion)" expressed by the words _aca taluc te aguajuale_. The primitive meaning of _ahau_ is certainly "man," "lord," and the two roots of similar significance, _ah_ and _vu_ (see _uinic_, _vinak_, "man") seem to concur in this word.