Britain, ancient, numerical divisions, middle, central ruler, quadruple organization, 470, 493.
British Guiana, wooden clubs with “Greek fret,” 121.
British Museum, 151, 166, 234, 353, 355, 356, 357, 366, 457, 459.
Brown, Robert, 324, 325, 327, 338, 364.
Brugsch, 370, 376, 377, 378, 379, 382, 385, 387, 390, 393, 395, 397, 398, 399, 400, 401, 402, 404, 406, 407, 418, 419, 423, 424, 425, 429, 431, 432, 433, 436, 437, 438, 439, 440, 441, 442.
Buddhism, 294, 298, 301, 306, 311, 314.
Budge, Wallis, 367, 368, 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, 375, 379, 382, 388, 389, 391, 394, 397, 425, 437, 443.
symbolism of, 337;
Yahwe, national god of the Hebrews, represented as man or as bull, 350;
astronomical sign in Egypt for Ursa Major, and possibly of Polaris, 385;
linguistic reasons why king of Egypt was entitled “the bull,” 385;
title of Egyptian supreme deity, 389;
cow, bull or ox, in Egyptian zodiac signs, 395;
Apis, sacred bull of Egypt, 399;
in inscription in temple of Denderah, 401;
Baal worshipped under image of, 410;
Egyptian ka, rebus, signifying Polaris and Ursa Major, 410;
title of Amen-Ra, 410;
associated with the goose in symbolism, 418;
Minotaurus, ruler of Crete, 457.
Burger, George, 486.
Burial urn, emblem of earth mother, 106.
Buschmann, Dr., 153, 155, 158, 165, 172.
Butterfly used as symbol of immortal soul by Mexicans, 39;
symbol of Centre and Four Quarters, 47.
Byzantine architecture, 515.
Cab, Maya day sign, word for bee, also earth, 109;
honey, 110;
associated with female principle, 110.
Cabal, day-sign, on Copan altar, 227.
Caban, Maya day-sign, identical with symbol of earth, 107;
figured with leaves of maize, 109;
the Below, 227.
Cæsar, called the Son of the Sun, 440, 470, 537.
Cakchiquel Indians of Guatemala, 79;
court of, 79;
obsidian mirror used as oracle, 80;
Annals of, 164;
legend suggesting form of government, 172;
tribal division associated with calendar, 178, 179;
tradition in relation to 7-day period, 182.
suggested by Polaris and circumpolar constellations, 25;
Maya, origin of, 35;
Mexican, monograph on, 53;
origin of, 100;
ancient Peruvian, 145;
among the Muyscas, 171;
connection between calendar signs and divisions of the people, 175;
a governmental institution, 179;
invention of native system by ancient inhabitants of Chiapas, 182;
among the Zuñi, 205;
kept profound secret by priesthood, 205;
Maya, 220;
fixed term of office for ancient American rulers, 221;
Mexican, originated from the fixed market-days, 245;
signs identified with different parts of human form, 282;
instituted by the Chinese emperor, Yaou, 289, 292;
comparison of American and Chinese, 297, 298, 299, 309;
Chaldean and Hindoo, 300;
Japanese compared with Mexican, 311;
Hindu with Mexican, 319;
Assyrian and Babylonian, 337, 348, 349;
ancient Egyptian, 377, 378;
lunar and solar, 439;
Esne calendar, 440;
Canopus calendar, 441;
Central American and Mexican, 528;
time when first adopted, 529, 530.
night sun pictured on, 13;
symbol of five dots compared with same on recumbent stone figure, 95;
market-stone of the City of Mexico, regulated social organization, 245;
special work on, by Zelia Nuttall, 246;
image of “Great Plan” or Scheme of Organization, 247;
figured and described, 248-258;
regulated machinery of state, 254;
Gama's, Valentine's and Chavero's descriptions, 256;
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embodied the idea of a central, dual and quadruple power, etc., 258;
contains symbol of union of dual principles of nature, 280.
Calendar-swastika, 9, 18, 41
(see Swastika).
California Indians, use today two symbols in use by ancient Mexicans and Mayas, i. e., flint-knife and “stone yoke,” 104, 105.
Calli, Nahuatl for western horizon=the house, 38;
one of the four-year symbols, 76;
meaning, the house, 253.
Campiña de Puebla, 275.
Can, Maya word for serpent, 38;
serpent and numeral four, 50, 110, 112;
affix in names of towns, Iroquois, Maya and Mexican, 198;
associated with pyramid as Teotihua-Can, 263;
in Chinese and Maya associated with fourfold division, 288.
Canaan, account of Hebrew religion, 350.
Canada, Iroquois town, 197;
Maya meaning of, 198.
Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, 440.
Capital, Maya word for, homonymous with five=ho, 256.
Caracol, or Round Temple, of Chichen-Itza, built by Quetzalcoatl, representing Middle and Four Quarters, and centre of dominion, 97.
Cardinal points, assignment of colors and parts of human body, 293, 294;
associated with form of quadruped among the Zuñi, 295
Carillo, Crescencio, 85, 86.
Carthaginians, having knowledge of an island in the ocean, 540.
Cartier, 197.
Cary's translation of Herodotus, 437.
Caryatids, at Chichen-Itza, 212.
Cassiopeia, 22, 25, 26, 29, 40, 49.
Caste, in Peru, 143;
in Mexico, 273.
Castelnau, 150.
Cat, sacred symbol in Egypt, 408.
Catari, chronicler of the Incas, 151.
Celi-Ced, the dual power, from which the universe was born (Druidic), 471.
Centipede, Mexican symbol, 186.
Central America, fundamental basis of government and civilization, 15;
symbolical form in architecture, 113, 119;
carved stone seats or altars, 283
(see Copan, Guatemala, etc.).