Note 52 — SYMBOLS OF THE CARDINAL POINTS.
Reading edition
Travels in Cent. Amer., vol. I, p. 156. Monument N, plate. Mr. Gustav Eisen, in a MS. lately received by and now in possession of the Smithsonian Institution, also mentions another similar head as found at Copan. This, he says, is on the side of an altar similar to that described by Stephens, except that the top wants the hieroglyphics. The sides have human figures similar to the other; on one of these is the head of an “Alligator.”