·     As often happens in Maya glyphs, this is simply the “animated form” of the common hand variant of chi. In such “conventional” animated forms, the characteristic elements of the base form are simply transferred to a head-outline.

·     This glyph is also logogram CHIH = “pulque”. The syllabogram usage is obviously derived from the earlier logogram usage.

·     MSK844 (a.k.a. CLK Structure II-B Tomb 4 Plate; “objabbr = CLKT4pl”) F is apparently such a skull form of chi. [Sim: I don’t see the characteristics that clearly.

o In all three examples, there’0s a tooth with a hook in it, at the right side of the mouth.

o MSK844 F seems to have a “feather” in the top right. This seems to be partly reflected in TOK.p22.r5.c3 and MHD.SC9 but much less clearly a feather.

o There is the nose hole in all three examples, but the top of the head in MSK844 F has a LEM-like element, which is not shown in the canonical form of TOK.p22.r5.c3 and the typical example form of MHD.SC9.]

·     The example glyph from BPK SS5 is either H9 or I4, depending on which of the two very slightly different glyph-block labelling systems is used.

·     A skull or animal head with three long leaves on the right represents pulque because the sap of the plant (= three leaves) is buried (= skull) for the fermentation process.

o Zender-CaCiAMF.t0:21:39-22:25: […] Potentially, it’s also the logogram CHIH for “pulque” since that’s what it depicts, but there’s no doubt that there’s many contexts in Maya art from this time that use it as just a syllable. If so, then it’s a syllable that originates from the word for maguey products, specifically, in this case, pulque proper.

o Houston-PaP.p4: The chi occurs in both “hand” or “agave” variants, perhaps with another conflated sign, an animal head.