[97]. Some writers have thought that the moan bird was a mythical animal; but Dr. C. H. Berendt found the name still applied to the falcon. In the form muyan, it is akin in sound to muyal, cloud, moan, cloudy; which may account for its adoption as a symbol of the rains, etc.
[98]. Förstemann, Entzifferung, No. III.
[99]. Relacion de la Villa de Valladolid (1579), cap. 14.
[100]. These are described at length by Landa, and their representations in the Codices have been explained by Thomas in his Manuscript Troano.
[101]. “The Ancient Phonetic Alphabet of Yucatan,” in the American Historical Magazine, for 1870.
[102]. A notable exception to this, commented on by de Rosny, is seen on pages 18 and 19 of the Codex Peresianus. Why the rule should be reversed in those sections is still a problem.
[103]. Study of the MS. Troano, Preface, p. viii.
[104]. Alfredo Chavero, Antiguedades Mexicanas, p. xi (Mexico, 1892). The Codex Porfirio Diaz must be read from right to left.
[105]. D. G. Brinton, “The Alphabets of the Berbers” in Proceedings of the Oriental Club of Philadelphia, p. 64 (Philadelphia, 1894).
[106]. For instances, the numerals in connection with the snakes in Cod. Dres., pp. 61–64, and 69–73, are to be read from right to left, and from below upward, beginning at the last page of the series, and proceeding toward the left on the extended sheet. Förstemann, Entzifferung, No. II, 1891.