forstemann] the glyphs 443 



addition; the signs 37 to 40 (e, /, g, and h), on pages 4T to 50, on the 

 contrary, have various appendixes, which can not be discussed here. 

 36 to 40 (d, e, /, (/, and h) no doubt likewise denote divinities — 3G 

 (d) possibly K; 38 (/) probal)ly E. A whole Venus year of 584 

 days must belong to them, as signs e, /, figure 103, and a, h, c, figure 

 104, indicated at the beginning of these glyphs. 



If, finally, we consider these glyphs as a whole, omitting 1 to 4 

 on account of their obliteration and 29 to 31 (a, figure 107), which 

 only repeats the normal date, we find that the Indian writer desires 

 to say this : 



I aui here treating especially the periods consisting of Ave successive Venus 

 years, bringing them into harmony with the solar year and the tonalamatl. I 

 am at the same time considering a second important period, that in which the 

 two heavenly bodies of the second class, the moon and Mercury, come together 

 in their orbits, a period made up of four unequal parts. Just in the same way is 

 each individual Venus year divided into four unequal parts, which appertain to 

 the east, north, west, and south and are ruled by certain deities, which I can 

 mention only in part, owing to lack of space. Lastly, I would add that each of 

 the five Venus years of a period is dominated as a whole by a deity, and the 

 signs of these I give here. 



Thus far, for the present, am I able to explain page 24. INIany 

 riddles still remain unsolved, but if one compares what I was able to 

 say in 1886 in my Erliiuterungen, pages 47 and 48, in regard to this 

 page, he must agree that the advance in knowledge in these eight years 

 has not been small. It is only nine years since the sign for zero 

 was discovered, without which no number above 19 could be read. 



