2. Uo. The usual meaning of this term is a prickly pear; also, a species of frog; uooh, a written character or letter. The prefix indicating speech (see p. 98) seems to indicate the latter. The chief element is the mol sign with the night sun as a subfix.
3. Zip. The design shows the sun below the flint knife, that is, the slain or departed sun, a play on the phrase, zipik kin, the sun set (ponerse el sol, Dicc. Motul). The idea is strengthened by the mac as a prefix, signifying “to extinguish.”
4. Zodz. The word means “bat,” and the design shows the head of one with the kin as a superfix.
5. Zec, or Tzec. The design is explained by Brasseur as a death’s head, Maya, tzekel; by others, as an open mouth with teeth (compare chuen, p. 112). The projecting curved lines above the head are supposed by Schellhas to represent a peculiar mode of wearing the hair. But as tzec means “scorpion,” they may depict conventionally the claws of that animal.[[145]]
6. Xul. The three signs are quite unlike. The first presents the conical bill of a bird of the finch or sparrow family; the second, the horned owl or the falcon (?); the third, a conventionalized bird’s head. The second may be ikonomatic for xulub, horns. The word xul means to end or to finish; and, the end, limit, or extremity.