Now, not only do these groups include, as I have explained, several of the phonetic elements of Maya words known to designate the four cardinal points, but they occupy, besides, the place which is necessary to them in the arrangement (orientation), to wit: West. S N o o u r t t h h . . East. I have said, moreover, in my _Essay_, that certain characteristic symbols of the gods of the four cardinal points (the _Bacab_) are found placed beside the katounic groups, which occcpy[TN-2] me at this moment, in a manner which gives a new confirmation of my interpretation. On Plates 23, 24, 25, and 26 of the _Codex Cortesianus_, where the same groups and symbols are seen reproduced of which I have just spoken, the hierogrammat has drawn four figures identical in shape and dress. These four figures represent the "god of the long nose." Beside the first, who holds in his hand a flaming torch, appears a series of katounes, at the head of which is the sign _Kan_ (symbol of the south), and above, a defaced group. Beside the second, who holds a flaming torch inverted, is the sign _Muluc_ (symbol of the east), and above, the group which I have interpreted as east. At the side of the third, who carries in the left hand the burning torch inverted and a scepter (symbol of Bacabs), is the sign _Ix_ (symbol of the north), and above, the group which I have translated as north. Finally, beside the fourth, who carries in his left hand the flaming torch inverted and a hatchet in the right hand, is the sign _Cauac_ (symbol of the west), and above, not the entire group, which I have translated as west, but the first sign of this group, and also an animal characteristic of the Occident, which has been identified with the armadillo. I have some doubts upon the subject of this animal, but its affinity with the qualification of the west appears to me at least very probable.