To this triad travelers, on stopping for the night, set on end three stones and placed in front of them three flat stones, on which incense was burned.

At their festival in the month _Muan_ precisely three cups of native wine (mead) were drained by each person present.[1] [Footnote 1: Landa, _Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan_, pp.

156, 260.] The description of some such rites as these is, no doubt, what led the worthy Hernandez to suppose that the Mayas had Trinitarian doctrines.
When they said that the god of the merchants and planters supplied the wants of men and furnished the world with desirable things, it was but a slightly figurative way of stating a simple truth.
The four Bacabs are called by Cogolludo "the gods of the winds." Each was identified with a particular color and a certain cardinal point.

The first was that of the South.

He was called Hobnil, the Belly; his color was yellow, which, as that of the ripe ears, was regarded as a favorable and promising hue; the augury of his year was propitious, and it was said of him, referring to some myth now lost, that he had never sinned as had his brothers.