Paris, 1852).] Each of the four Bacabs was also called _Acantun_, which means "a stone set up," such a stone being erected and painted of the color sacred to the cardinal point that the Bacab represented[1].

Some of these stones are still found among the ruins of Yucatecan cities, and are to this day connected by the natives with reproductive signs[2].

It is probable, however, that actual phallic worship was not customary in Yucatan.

The Bacabs and Itzamna were closely related to ideas of fertility and reproduction, indeed, but it appears to have been especially as gods of the rains, the harvests, and the food supply generally.

The Spanish writers were eager to discover all the depravity possible in the religion of the natives, and they certainly would not have missed such an opportunity for their tirades, had it existed.