THOMAS] ORDER OF tHE YEARS 705 
This will end with + Ik and the next will begin with 5 Akbal, and so 
on until the number 13 is reached, when the count begins again with 1. 
The order in which the years follow one another through a complete 
cycle of years, or calendar round, is shown in the annexed table (8). 





TABLE 3 
Akbal Lamat Ben Ezanab 
1 yh 8 4 
5 | 6 aed ee 
9 10 11 12 
13 1 2 3 
4 45 6 | 7 
8 9 10 11 
12 13 1 2 
3 + 5 6 
7 8 9 10 
11 12 13 1 
2 3 4 5 
6 7 8 9 
| 10 11 12 13 


This is to be followed in the order of the numbers, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ete. 
As all the possible changes are completed in a cycle of years, or cal- 
endar round (we use the term ‘‘cycle of years” to distinguish it from 
the period to which Goodman has unfortunately applied the name 
“cycle,” which is not the same as the 52-year period, which he calls 
‘calendar round”), it always begins or is supposed to begin with 1 
Akbal, 1 Lamat, 1 Ben, or 1 Ezanab, according to the order or system 
adopted, and ends with the year 13. According to the system adopted 
here it always begins with 1 Akbal. 
It is stated above that these tables apply to the ‘‘system adopted 
here.” For the benefit of those not thoroughly familiar with this 
subject an explanation is necessary. As the Maya calendar is an 
orderly rotation of days, months, and years subject to the rules above 
stated, resulting from the numbering by 13, the 20 days to the month, 18 
months to the year, and the 5 added days, any + days of the 20 days, 
selected at intervals of 5 in the series, could be adopted as dominical 
days. For example, it appears from the Troano codex that the people 
where it was made (supposed to have been those of the peninsula of 
Yucatan) selected Kan, Muluc, Ix, and Cauac as the dominical days, 
while the Tzental, with whose system the Dresden codex corresponds, 
selected (if the count of the days of the month began with 1) Akbal, 
