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A Primer of Mayan Hieroglyphics

Note 135 — IV. The Graphic Elements.

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The name is from lil, to sprinkle, haa, water, and bal, the instrumental termination. The Relacion de la Villa de Valladolid, 1579, cap. xiv, says: “el ahkin llevaba un hisopo, atado en el muchas colas de vibora y culebras ponzoñosas.”

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