284 AIDS TO THE STUDY OF THE MAYA CODICES. 



In tlie middle division of Plate s is a short series connected with a 

 day column containing the following days, reading downwards, as 

 tisual : Manik, Cauac, Clnieu, Akbal, Men. The symbol for Akbal 

 (Fig. 301), is a very unusual one, reminding lis strongly of a 

 £^ skull, which may possibly have given origin to the symbol. 

 ^^ The numerals of the series ai-e as follows : 20+ 0. VIII; 50 + 

 F.G.301. |,^ yjjj. ^^^ number over the column. VIII; and the interval 

 between the days, o'^. 



In Plate 15, division c, is the following series, which differs from 

 those given in having two day columns instead of one: 



III III 



La mat Ix 



Eb Ezanab ] ^^' ^ ^4, III. 



Kan Oc 



Cib Ik 



The final number is the same as that over the columns; the sum of 

 the black numbers is 26, which is a multiple of 13; biit in this case in 

 counting the intervals the days are to be taken alternately from the 

 two columns. 



Commencing with 3 Lamat on our calendar and counting 26 days 

 brings us to 3 Ix; 26 more to 3 Ahau; 26 more to 3 Cimi, and so on 

 to the end. 



In the lower division of Plate 9 is a series arranged as follows: 



The sum of the black numerals is 26 and the final red niimber is III, 

 the same as that over the columns. The interval between the days, 

 taken alternately from the two columns, as in the preceding example, 

 is 26. The numbers are also to be taken alternately from the two 

 nvimber columns. 



It is apparent that these examples sustain the theory advanced. 

 This will also be found true in regard to all the series of this type 

 in this and the other codices where the coj^y is correct. Brasseur's 

 copy of the Manuscript Troano is so full of mistakes that no satis- 

 factory examination of this codex can be made until a photographic 

 copy is obtained; nevertheless a few examples are given as proof of 

 the above statement. 



In the third division of Plate XI* is the following 

 IV 

 Ahau ) 



Eb [ 17, VIII; 13, VIII; 10 V; 12, IV. 



Kan ) 

 Cib 

 Lamat 



