The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

238 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
symbolic representation, and is taken from
Bunsen's Dictionary.
They represented " the Signs " for the Four
Cardinal Points of Heaven in the division of four,
as a square. Afterwards four Consorts were
assigned to them, representing half cardinal points,
or Heaven in the division of eight, in one
form.
Amongst the Stellar and Solar Cult peoples
throughout
the world we find various names for
these, but their places and duties were always
identical, as may be seen and is proved by the
following. The reason for the different symbolifi-
cation in representation is because the " fauna '
as models for Zootypes were different in each
country.
Amongst
Name
i. Tecptl
2. Tochtli
3.
Cardinal
Points
Acatl East
Calli
the Mexicans these were called—
Sign or Symbol
Colour
Name of
Consorts
North Flint Knife or Shell White Cipactli
South Rabbit
Head
or Hare's Yellow Cozcaquanhtli
A Reed or Cane Red Michitzli
West
growing in Water
A House Black Ozomatli
Amongst the Mayas-
1. Zac- Bacab =
2. Kan-Bacab =
3. Chac-Bacab =
4.
Ek-Bacab =
The White Bacab who stood at the North.
The Yellow Bacab who stood at the South.
The Red Bacab who stood at the East.
The Black Bacab who stood at the West.