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AIDS TO THE STUDY OF THE MAYA CODICES. 



According to the older and also the more recent authorities, the 

 Maya years— there being 30 names for days and 3G5 days in a year — 

 commi'iiccd alternately on the first, sixth, eleventh, and sixteenth of 

 the sfiics. I h:it is to say, on the days Kan, Muluc, Ix, and Cauac, fol- 

 lowint;- > mr am itlier in the order here given; hence they are spoken of 

 as Kan years, Muluc years, Ix years, and Cauac years. 



Writing out in the form of an ordinary counting house calendar 

 the 305 days of the year, commencing with 1 Kan and numbering 

 them according to the Maya custom (that is, up to thirteen to form 

 their week and then commencing again with one) they would be as 

 shown in Table I. 



Table I. — Names and numbers of the monfhs and days of the Maya system. 



Names oj 

 days. 



Kan 



Chicchan 

 Cimi 



Muluo . . . 

 Oc 



Cauac . 

 Ahau .. 

 Ymix. 



Kan 



Chicchan. 

 Cimi 



Intercalated days. 



Each of these eighteen columns forni.^ one month, and the whole 

 taken together, with the 5 days adilcd at the end of the eighteenth 

 month, form one continitous series, the .second column following the 



