f LXV,
44. As the appendix, as shown elsewhere, probably has _ah_, _ha_, or
_hal_ as its phonetic equivalent, we have, as the elements of the word
represented by the whole glyph (omitting the prefix), _ch'-ch'ah_. As
_choch_ (_chochah_), Perez, and _chooch_ (_choochah_), Henderson,
signify "to loosen, untie, disunite, detach," this may be the true
interpretation of the symbol. The presence of the eye in a symbol
appears, as a rule, to have no special significance, as is shown by its
presence sometimes in the symbols for the days _chicchan_ and _oc_. It
is worthy of note that Dr Seler introduces into his manik series the
character above shown as having some relation to and being possibly a
variation of that symbol. Before attempting to trace the symbol of the
day in its combinations with other characters, with a view of
ascertaining its original signification, reference will be made to the
signification of the day names in the different calendars.

The signification of the Nahuatl word _atl_ is water; the Zapotec names
are also words for water. _Tohil_ was the name of the principal Quiche
deity, and appears to have been the god of thunder and rain, and, as
Seler presumes, was the representative in these nations of the Maya Chac
and Mexican Tlaloc. According to Brasseur, _toh_ signifies "a heavy or
sudden shower" or "thunder shower." Drs Seler and Brinton both derive
the Maya and Tzental names from the radical _mul_ or _mol_, "to join
together, collect, heap up," and suppose it refers to the gathering
together of the waters (that is, the clouds) in the heavens. This brings
the signification of these two names into harmony with that of the names
of the other calendars, and is probably a correct interpretation.

There are but few places where the symbol of this day is found in
connection with other characters that I have been able to interpret
entirely satisfactorily.

The compound character shown in plate LXV, 46, is from Dres. 16c.
Judging by the evident parallelism of the groups in this division, this
character is the symbol of the bird figured below the text. In this
picture is easily recognized the head of the parrot. As _moo_ is the
Maya name of a species of parrot ("the macaw"), and the circular
character of the glyph is like the symbol for _muluc_, except that the
circumscribing line is of dots, we may safely accept this term as the
phonetic value. The fact that the small character is double, as is the
_o_ in the