Quiet private demonstrated

Usage examples of shown.

Animal figures often take the place of these gods as in the second picture in Dresden 7c where the screech owl is shown with human body.

Animals are frequently shown copulating with various gods or with one another.

These animals probably represent in some way the totems of the man or woman in question and are shown in place of the human figure.

In the greater number of cases where copulation is shown a god and a female figure are pictured.

The dog, the deer, and the turkey are the most important of the animals shown as being offered to the gods in this connection.

It is, however, in another connection than that just considered that the animals are shown as offerings far more frequently throughout the Maya manuscripts.

The head and feet of the lizard, as has been noted, may also be shown by a glyph.

In the Maya picture, a jaguar is shown on the right hand, a peccary on the left, a dog on the right foot, and a rabbit beside the body at her right.

In both these places the conception and the bearing of children are shown together with their baptism.

Certain gods in this section which relates to the planting of maize are shown as being attacked by vultures and blow-flies.

Many times when the glyph, either of a god or an animal, is shown with no accompanying picture, the reason seems to be that there is no room for the latter on account of the numerical calculations which take up all the space.

Round spots of color are evidently intended by the markings on the shells shown in figs.

The first pair only of legs is shown with a pinching claw, possibly intended as a conventionalized hand, while the rest are simple.

In each of these cases the centipede head surrounded by dots is shown in connection with the main part of the glyph.

The acute powers of observation shown by the artist are evinced in this figure since he draws the spider correctly with eight legs instead of the six or ten sometimes seen in drawings by our own illustrators.