OTHER TIME SERIES. [^^^ 



REAlTOr 

 ETHNOLOGY 



Jt is iiumifest lioiii this examiuatioii that all serie.s couMtnicted on 

 the plau of this one are adju.stable to the calendar system with the 

 year of 305 days aud the four year series. 



lleferring now to the lon^- series on plates o.'i-oS of the same eodex, 

 the first five cohimns from the commencement in the upper division of 

 plate 53 are given, inserting two corrections in the upper numerals 

 which the counters below show to be required. These corrections, 

 however, which were first made by Dr. Forstemann, and are absolutely 

 necessary to the order of the series, in no way affect the question now 

 at issue. The series is as follows: 



17 • 17 8 17 17 



The numbers below the columns denote the intervals in months and 

 days; thus, from 6 Kan to 1 Ymix, is 8 mcmths and 17 days; from 1 

 Ymix to Muluc is 7 months and 8 days; from G Muluc to 1 Cimi is 8 

 months aud 17 days; and so on. As there is also an interval of 8 

 months and 17 days under the first column, it is necessary to count 

 back 8 months and 17 days from Kan to find the initial day of the 

 series. The numerals over the columns indicate the sum of the inter- 

 vals, at any given column, from the initial day of the series. Thus the 

 numbers in the lowest line may be considered days, or units of the first 

 order, of which twenty make one unit of tlie second order; the second 

 line may be considered months, or, as Dr. l<'orstemann holds, units of 

 the second order, of m liich eighteen make a unit of the third order; 

 and the upper line years (of 360 days), or units of the third order, one 



ot which e(|uals 3<)0 units ot the first order. Hence, the numbers J 7 



(2 

 over the third column equal 3(>0+140+-; 502 days, or 1 year (of 305 

 days), 6 months and 17 days. 



As there is nothing in tlie series to indicate the year in which it 

 begins, it may be assumed to commence in a year in which Kau is the 

 seventeenth day of the month. This is found to be a Lamat year, and 

 counting back 8 months and 17 days from Kan, 12 Lamat is reached; 

 and this, as it is the first day of a month, may be assumed to be the first 

 day of a year. According to this reckoning Kan of the first column 

 of the series will be the seventeenth day of the ninth month, Chen, 

 of the year 12 Lamat. Counting forward from this day, 8 months and 

 17 days carries the reckoning to 1 Ymix, the fourteenth day of the 

 eighteenth month, Cumhu, which is the first day of the second column 



