·     The alternation chan vs. kan is often spoken about as the non-Yucatec vs. Yucatec pronunciations for “snake”.

·     It also applies to “sky” (and probably also “four”), but we see it most often in the polity KAAN, where they found it very important to stress that it’s the k- pronunciation; it’s less important for “sky” and ‘visually’ more difficult of “four”.

·     The na which is often written after CHAN is always just a phonetic complement, never an underspelling for -na{l} – when a -nal is intended, it will be written with the NAL (“corncob”); this applies both in the meaning of “place” as well as for the adjectival ending for “celestial” (doubly confirmed by Dorota Bojkowska).

·     Variants (2):

o A. Boulder outline – features:

§ Top:

·       Bold ceiling.

·       Two vertical non-touching bars from the ceiling to the floor.

·       Crossed bands between the vertical bars (canonical, but can be single diagonal bar or 1 (bold) rung bold ladder etc).

§ Middle:

·       Divided in half by a horizontal line or bar.

·       Hanging from the horizontal line or bar: 2-3 touching dots in the middle.

§ Bottom:

·       Lipped-U.

·       Grass blades growing on the base of the U.

o B. Bird head – features:

§ Headdress:

·       Top: “LEM”.

·       Left: Optionally with element sticking out left or cross-hatched oval forehead ornament.

·       Right: oval feather / o.

·       Bottom: “tassels” – optionally with each tassel ending in a tiny dot.

§ Beak: Optionally, a mouth tendril to the right.

§ Right side: optionally, an oval element, longer in the vertical axis, vaguely resembling a “LEM” with an internal ladder, or an AK’AB or a li.