Quaternary system.
East—Yellow.
North—Black.
West—White.
South—Red.
Quinary system.
South—Blue.
East—Red.
North—Yellow.
West—White.
Center—Black.
Mr. John Crawford (a) says:
In Java the divisions of the horizon and the corresponding colors were named in the following order: first, white and the east; second, red and the south; third, yellow and the west; fourth, black and the north; and fifth, mixed colors and the focus or center.
Boturini (a) gives the following arrangement of the “symbols of the four parts or angles of the world,” comparing it with that of Gemelli:
| Gemelli. | Boturini. |
| 1. Tochtli—South. | 1. Tecpatl—South. |
| 2. Acatl—East. | 2. Calli—East. |
| 3. Tecpatl—North. | 3. Tochtli—North. |
| 4. Calli—West. | 4. Acatl—West. |
| SYMBOLS OF THE FOUR ELEMENTS. | |
| Gemelli. | Boturini. |
| 1. Tochtli—Earth. | 1. Tecpatl—Fire. |
| 2. Acatl—Water. | 2. Calli—Earth. |
| 3. Tecpatl—Air. | 3. Tochtli—Air. |
| 4. Calli—Fire. | 4. Acatl—Water. |
Herrera (a) speaks only of the year symbols and colors, and, although he does not directly connect them, indicates his understanding in regard thereto by the order in which he mentions them:
They divided the year into four signs, being four figures; the one of a house, another of a rabbit, the third of a cane, the fourth of a flint, and by them they reckoned the year as it passed on. * * * They painted a sun in the middle from which issued four lines or branches in a cross to the circumference of the wheel, and they turned so that they divided it into four parts and the circumference and each of them moved with its branch of the same color, which were four—green, blue, red, and yellow.
From this statement Prof. Cyrus Thomas, in Notes on certain Maya and Mexican Manuscripts, Third Ann. Rep., Bureau of Ethnology, concludes that Herrera’s arrangement would presumably be as follows:
Calli—Green.
Tochtli—Blue.
Acatl—Red.
Tecpatl—Yellow.