FORSTEMANN] PAGES 71-73 AND 51-58, DRESDEN CODEX 453 



Nor is it accidental that the serpent signs in 8h and 43rt resemble 

 each other, although 35=5XT weeks have passed. 



The perfect agreement between 41 and 47, after only weeks have 

 elapsed, might indicate that an exchange had taken place between 

 two neighboring grou])s in one of the two passages. In 41^ and Q9a 

 the same head at least occurs; that is, after a space of twenty-eight 

 groups, or a year, as in 37 and 65. 



Perhaps the most important thing thus far stated is the probable 

 discovery of the sign for a Bacab repeated eight times. It is further 

 confirmed by a ninth instance, on page 72, at the top, in the second 

 group from the right, but the glyphs set down there belong to a 

 series of numbers below them, the difference of whose separate 

 terms is 54. In the third member of this series, page 72, at the left 

 above, that is, above the number 162, the lowest glyph is associated 

 with the character for the month Ceh in exactly the same way as 

 group 1 in the passage first discussed, but the Bacab sign, which 

 I have just mentioned, is associated with the eighth term; that is, 

 Avith the number 432. Two hundred and seventy days have there- 

 fore passed since the Ceh group, and in this time, exactly after 273 

 days, the rule of a new Bacab begins. 



It is remarkable that the numeral 4 accompanies this newly dis- 

 covered Bacab sign, just as it does in group 4 of page 71, in the 

 passage first discussed. To my mind this numeral 4 can only be an 

 expletive affirmation that one of the four Bacabs is actually dealt 

 with. 



Perhaps it may yet lead to further discoveries if I observe that 

 in both of the passages discussed in detail, pages 51 to 58 and 71 to 

 73 (I can count at least fourteen instances, in spite of the partial 



