·     AT-E1168-lecture19.t0:42:46: EL-NAAH. The iconographic origin is that of a censor – a container for burning incense.

·     CMHI: Elnaah = “dedicated” – this is the “incensing ritual” spoken about in Stuart’s “Fire Enters” paper.

·     See Zender’s explanation from MatL2022.workshop.t0:22:04, under EL.

·     AT-YT2021-lecture17.t1:01:43-1:02:57: The other term [for rituals, in addition to ochi k’ahk’] is elnaah or elnaahaj, which literally means “to cense something, with incense”. So the EL-logogram literally shows you an incense burner – like a vessel in which you put incense. And, believe it or not, archeologically, we actually find them in the buildings. So as part of the ritual, the very incense burner itself would actually be placed inside the cache, in the central room. One of these offerings, found a few years back, actually contained the incense itself. So there was an incense burner – which was about this big – and a column of copal incense – I think about this tall – never seen anything like it – it was still preserved! I guess you could just burn it at any time, if you wanted to (we didn’t, of course). But it was in that stone box inside the wall of the building, and it was perfectly fine. So that’s what elnaah is – to censer [or] to cense a building: to bring incense in it and burn it or [to] leave it inside.