Mayan Toponyms
Its translation into Spanish means, in that same order, Star, Raccoon, Priest, Snake, Tooth, Glass, God, Flint, Infant, Charcoal Grass, Cotton, Worm, Animal Skin, and Son.
The Cocom documents are currently housed in the Southwest Museum in Pasadena, USA, which has been closed for years and is not accessible. There are fears among academics about their conservation status.
Rediscovered
These documents were bought by Willard at the beginning of the 20th century but were not rediscovered until the 1980s by anthropologist Ruth Gubler.
The Superior Temple of Jaguars or Temple of the Tigers, in whose glyphs the Cocom were identified, was considered by John Lloyd Stephens as