fOkstemann] method OF TREATMENT 417 



Thus the eight zero points all fall on the lirst day of the month 

 Kan. The first two week days, however, are XT 1 and the six others 

 IX 1. From IX 1 to XI 1 there are 80 days, and thus the number 

 80 is justified, as I promised above to prove; for in the dates Avrit- 

 ten below belonging to 1^ and 2rt the days are alike (in each case 

 III 2). 



The six initial days IX 1 have ditferent positions in the year in 2a, 

 2&, and 3rt, and are, therefore, in different years; but in 36,4^/, and 4^ 

 they are exactly alike and are all in the year 4 IX. Hence the differ- 

 ence in the numbers belonging to these three does not depend upon 

 the beginning, but upon the end of the series. It is perhaps not 

 accidental that the year at the beginning is 4 IX, which w-e have 

 above seen occurring among the large numbers of the second rank. 



The date IX 1; 12, ITth month, found here three times by mere 

 computation, is undoubtedly an extremely important one. Looking 

 through the manuscri])t, we find it plainly w^ritten down on page 61 

 below on the left, and then above in the middle, and again on page 

 62 above in the middle. Should not this helj) to throw' light on the 

 hieroglyphs of which it always constitutes the end and aim? If 

 the upper right-hand corner of page 61 were not entirel}^ destroyed, 

 and the left-hand one of page 62 nearly so, we should undoubtedly 

 even now see more clearly here. 



I would especially urge upon the attention of the investigator the 

 importance of finding out the significance of the symbol of the sixth 

 month, Xul, eight times repeated Avith slight variations among the 

 eight calendar dates at the bottom of these tAvo pages. 



But I can not take leave of this section without remarking that it 

 likewise occurs, like an abstract, in the upper third of pages 31 to 32. 

 We find there also a series beginning with the day XIII 20. There 

 also appears the difference 91; there also, the encircled numbers 17, 

 121, and 51,419 ; and finally, also, the large numbers 1,272,544, 

 1,268,540, and 1,538,342. As if here, too, something corresjjonding in 

 a certain degree to the serpent numbers ought to be found, there are in 

 this place the numbers 2,804,100=10,785X260=147 katuns-h 14.040, 

 that remarkable number so often standing in the background; yet 

 here, too, we have only a great riddle. 



Pages 69 to 73 



method of treatment 



In the following I shall arrange my observations in the same order 

 as I have done in the preceding section. In this way it will be easily 

 seen by comparison wherein the two sections resemble each other and 

 AvTierein they differ. 



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