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Rh signifying the "tying of the years," and hence a period, as a luster, or Katun, or possibly the joining of two years.

The conic figure (Fig. 46), always found in the mouth of an individual, I take to be a cigar (chamal). On Plate XXVI* it is represented with the larger end black at the tip, and red behind this for a short distance, which, together with the dotted lines representing smoke, show that it is on fire.