Note 113 — IV. The Graphic Elements.

In Maya a comb is xel. This as a verb means “to cut in two;” and as a numeral prefix it divides in half unities less than 20; as xel u yox kinbe, “two-and-a-half-day journeys.” Ikonomatically, the comb sign may have these significations. Landa gives it as the sign for ca, perhaps, as Valentini suggests, for cac, to pull out hair.