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nucleus of tlie year in question is this ritual period, we may fitly call 

 it the ritual year. 



It is this ritual year which I recognize in the present passage of 

 the Dresden codex as belonging to the Maya region. It should there- 

 fore begin about the 10th of March, acocrding to the Julian calendar, 

 which was about the time of the spring equinox. 



Proceeding from this point of time I will now try to tabulate the 

 chronology of this passage. In the first column I shall place the 

 numbers which designate tlie groups of hieroglyphs in question : in 

 the second I shall specify to which day dates of that year the sepa- 

 rate groups refer; in the third, on which day of our year they fall; 

 lastly, in the fourth, the 20-day period with which each particular one 

 mainly coincides: 



1 1 to 13 lOto 23 March Ceh 



2 14 to 26 23 March to 4 April Mac 



3 27to39 5to 17 April ^ 



4 40to52 18 to 80 April jKankin 



5 ... 53 to 65 1 to 13 May Moan 



6 66 to 78 14 to 26 May Pax 



7 79to91 27Mayto8June |^ 



8....- 92 to 104 9 to 21 June jKayab 



9 105 to 117 -. 22 June to 4 July ^ 



10 118tol30 5tol7July |Cumku 



11 131 to 143 18to30July Pop 



12 144 to 156 31 Julytol2Aug -^ 



13 157 to 169 13 to 25 Aug /^^ 



14 170 to 182 26 Aug. to 7 Sept Zip 



15 183 to 195 8 to 20 Sept ^ 



16 196 to 208 21 Sept. to 3 Oct f^"*^ 



17 209to221 4tol6 0ct Tzec 



18 .. 232 to 234 17 to 29 Oct 1 



>Xul 



y- 



19 335 to 247 .. 30 Oct. to 11 Nov.. . 



20 - 348 to 360 13 to 24 Nov. Yaxkin 



31 261 to 273 25 Nov. to 7 Dec ^ 



22 274 to 286 8 to 20 Dec /^^^ 



23 287to299 21 Dec. to 2 Jan ^ 



24 300to313 3tol5Jan f^^®" 



25 313to325 16 to 28 Jan Yax 



26 336 to 338 29 Jan. to 10 Feb i 



37 339to351 llto23Feb P*^ 



28 352 to 364 24 Feb. to 8 March Ceh 



AVhile calling attention in what follows to certain points which 

 justify this arrangement, I regret that a large number of glyphs must 

 be omitted because an explanation of them is impossible. This is 

 doubly to be regretted in the case of characters that frequently occur 

 in Maya manuscripts, which, if definitely known, would throw iniich 

 light upon many passages. 



Among these is the universally known, much discussed, but never 



