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It further appears that if we begin at the top with the first row 

 and advance to the second, but begin at the bottom, on the other 

 hand, with the fourth and join it to the third, both rows proceed quite 

 in the same way, and the intervening spaces between the separate days, 

 designated by Arabic numerals, are found to be precisely the same. 

 Thus, therefore, the 26 pictures, in certain circumstances, might hold 

 good for both rows, that is, for all the 52 periods, although the 

 starting points are different. Still I am inclined to think that the 

 pictures as well as the glyphs all refer to the two lower rows only; 

 that is, to the more important of the two days, XIII 20. 



Now, on page 65 at the beginning (the left) of the lowest row 

 of glyphs we have 9 Kan. Is not this the year here meant, which, 

 moreover, is perhaj)s not by accident the middle one of a katun 

 beginning with 9 Ix? For, as I have set forth in the Compte 

 rendu of the Congress of Americanists at Berlin, page 742, the begin- 

 Jiing of the ^Jaya chronology seems to lie in the year 9 Ix. But 

 the day XIII 20 is the first day of the eleventh month in the year 9 

 Kan (according to the new theory making 9 Kan the second day of 

 the year) ; this would be the beginning of the fourth row. If we 

 continue to count with the differences 9, 5, 1, etc., in this fourth row, 

 it ends with the twelfth day of the fifteenth month, and the third 

 row begins with the third day of the sixteenth month. The ninth 

 member of this third row would be the twenty-first day of the 

 eighteenth month, the tenth the second day of the first month; that 

 is, the day 10 Muluc, which gives the name to the new year. And 

 precisely in this place, page 68, above on the left, Ave find that Janus 

 picture. To make the meaning of this still more clear there are two 

 characters above the gods strongly resembling a horizontal 8 (qo ) {g, 

 figure 109). I think this is the hieroglyphic abbreviation for two 

 contiguous serpents, that is, two years; and among the glyphs above 

 them, the first in the top line is nothing more than the graphic- 

 ally abbreviated repetition of the two persons leaning against each 

 other (/, figure 109). But to the right of this we find a very com- 

 jjosite glj'ph, one part of which again very closely resembles the 

 horizontal 8, h. I hope that we are standing on a firm basis. 

 Indeed, even the preceding ninth picture (page 67, above on the 

 right) may be an allusion to the close of the year; it is a striding 

 god, at whose feet lies a little deity apparently inclosed in a sack. 

 Therefore this may represent the old year and the young year which 

 has not yet crept out of its shell. 



It seems evident to me that this new year is a Muluc year from the 

 continuously pouring rain of the tenth to the thirteenth pictures, 

 as well as from the storm or lightning beast and its attendant in 

 picture 11, known to us particularly from the Dresden codex, pages 



