12, 14, etc.
I may here repeat what I have elsewhere written on this figurative expression in the Maya languages: "The literal or physical sense of the word heart is not that which is here intended.

In these dialects this word has a richer metaphorical meaning than in our tongue.

It stands for all the psychical powers, the memory, will and reasoning faculties, the life, the spirit, the soul.

It would be more correct to render these names the 'Spirit' or 'Soul' of the lake, etc., than the 'Heart.' They indicate a dimly understood sense of the unity of spirit or energy in all the various manifestations of organic and inorganic existence." _The Names of the Gods in the Kiche Myths, Central America_, by Daniel G.Brinton, in _Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society_, vol.xix, 1881, p.
623.] The immediate neighbors of the Tzendals were the Mixes and Zoques, the former resident in the central mountains of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the latter rather in the lowlands and toward the eastern coast.

The Mixes nowadays number but a few villages, whose inhabitants are reported as drunken and worthless, but the time was when they were a powerful and warlike nation.