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2 Akbal and 8 Ben), the total, in days, being 2,825, whereas the inter- 
mediate time periods, as interpreted by Mr Goodman, give 3,000, or, 
omitting the 20 days, according to Maudslay’s interpretation of the 
symbol, which appears to be correct, 2,980 days. It is apparent there- 
fore that there is some mistake here—that is, supposing the theory that 
the two dates are intended to be connected by the intermediate time 
symbols be true. 
Mr Goodman suggests two ways of making the correction—first, by 
assuming 8 Ahau 18 Tzec to be the date from which to count, and 
changing the intermediate numeral series from 8 ahaus 5 chuens to 6 
ahaus 14 chuens, thus making two radical alterations; in other words, 
a new numeral series to fit the case. This he obtains by subtracting 
the initial series as he has given it, from the 13 cycles composing his 
fifty-third great cycle, thus— 
13— 0— 0— 0—0 
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6—14—0 
His other method is to change the intermediate time periods or 
numeral series to 6 ahaus 15 chuens—which is also making a new 
series—and to count from 1 Ahau 18 Zotz. 
In making these proposed changes Mr Goodman seems to drop out 
of view his 20 days, as in fact he does throughout in his calculations. 
He gives the full count—20 for days, ahaus, and katuns, and 18 for 
chuens—in noting the numeral series, but appears to treat them as 
naughts in his calculations. This is evident from the numbers he 
gives in the present instance. As conclusive evidence on this point it 
is only necessary to refer to the preface to his ‘* perpetual chrono- 
logical calendar” (op. cit., not paged), where he says of the series 
9—15—20—18 x 20, ‘there are no days, chuens, or ahaus in this date.” 
Mr Maudslay, in his illustration of Goodman’s method of interpreta- 
tion before the Royal Society of England, June 17, 1897, in which he 
uses a newly discovered inscription (see figure 20), counts the char- 
acter at the side of a chuen symbol (C1), precisely like that attached to 
our chuen, as equivalent to naught. In the case he refers to there are 
two lines above the symbol, counted as 10 chuens. Speaking of it he 
says: 
Cl is the chuen sign with the numeral 10 (two bars=10) above it and a “full 
count”’ sign at the side. Whether the 10 applies to the chuens or days can only be 
determined by experiment, and such experiment in this case shows that the reckon- 
ing intended to be expressed is 10 chuens and a ‘‘full count’’ of days—that is, for 
practical purposes 10 chuens only, for as in the last reckoning, when the full count 
of chuens was expressed in the ahaus, so here the full count of days is expressed in 
the chuens. 
In other words, that the character at the side simply means that no 
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