ich the name _Voc_ is
mentioned, the same author[220-2] says:

The name _Voc_ is that of a species of bird (Cakchiquel _Vaku_).
Coto describes it as having green plumage, and a very large and
curved bill, apparently a kind of parrot. Elsewhere in the myth
(page 70) it is said to be the messenger of Hurakan, resting
neither in the heaven nor in the underworld, but in a moment flying
to the sky, to Hurakan, who dwells there.

This is unquestionably the wind symbolized as a bird. The name for wind
in Malay is _bayu_, and _Vayu_ is a Wind god in Hindu mythology. Garud,
the Bird deity of the Hindu Pantheon, who plays such an important role
in the Mahabharata, and is so frequently termed therein "the foremost
ranger of the skies," is apparently the Storm god, the equivalent of the
Maya _Hurukan_.

We may remark incidentally that a curious coincidence is found in the
fact that there appears to be a relation between the wind and monkeys in
the mythology both of the Hindu and of the natives of Central America,
or at least of Mexico. Hanuman, the Monkey god, who plays such an
important part in the Ramayana, was the son of Pavana, the chief Wind
deity. According to Brasseur, in his introductory essay to the _Popol
Vuh_, it is stated in the Codex Chimalpopoca that the men were, on a day
_Ehecatl_, changed by the wind into monkeys. On what peculiar
mythological conception this idea is based I am unable to state.

THE THIRD DAY

Maya, _akbal_; Tzental, _votan_; Quiche-Cakchiquel, _akbal_; Zapotec,
_guela_; Nahuatl _calli_.

The form of the Maya character as given by Landa is shown in plate LXIV,
35; those usually found in the codices are presented in figures 36 and
37 of the same plate. A slight variation which sometimes occurs in the
Dresden Codex is given in plate LXIV, 38. In figure 39 of this plate
circular dots take the place of the teeth. In another variant, shown in
figure 40, there is a row of dots immediately below the broken cross
line. The forms shown in figures 41 and 42 are from the inscriptions. As
will be seen by comparing figures 36 and 38 with plate LXV, 64, this
glyph, in some of its forms, resembles somewhat closely the _chuen_
symbol, but is generally readily distinguished from it by the wavy line
across the face and the absence of the little divided oblong at the top,
which is mostly present in the _chuen_ symbol. The lower triangle is
usually sharp and extends to the top in