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consider further. On page 2b, on the left, we find it very distinct as 

 the headdress of a god, but whether here, too, it has reference to the 

 neAv year is uncertain. In other passages I believe that the sign (/, 

 figure 109, is a mere abbreviation of it, as on page 38a on the right. 

 There the j^icture represents tlie god with the serpent's tongue hold- 

 ing the sign Kan in his hand; above is the usual glyph of the god, 

 and above this a composite sign, h; that is, the character referred 

 to here, Avith the usual dots that signify movement or progression; 

 to the left of it is the sign for the east, the Kan year. Does this sig- 

 nify the end of a Kan year? Then, on page 41b, on the right, below, 

 IS the' picture of a new god (the god of the new year?), apparently 

 being carved out of a tree. The first among the glyphs is that of 

 the west, probably combined with the sign lor the close of the year, 

 which we shall meet with later (the pile of stones on which the image 

 of the god is being erected). Again, on page 52b, where, 1,034 days 

 before the picture of the lianged woman, we see i as the first glyph. 

 To this belongs a heraldic figure below, beneath astronomic signs, of 

 which the left side is colored yellow and the right side black, and 

 which bears the sign for the sun in the center. It is not improbable 

 that this, too, may mean the new year, since there is a margin of 178 

 days, which would warrant it, but more than that can not be asserted. 



Here I would like to point out another sign, Avhich perhaps, like 

 the preceding one, originated from the serpent, and therefore perhaps 

 also refers to the year. I mean the spiral, or snail-shell line, k. 

 We encounter it on page 20c both in the middle picture and in the 

 one on the right. In the former we find it in the water, at the foot 

 of a black divinity ; beside it, the sign kan, over which lies an alliga- 

 tor. Among the glyphs above we see the abbreviation for the east 

 (the Kan year) ; on the right above it, the entire sign for the west. 

 Concerning the god seated on the right (the same as the one with the 

 serpent's tongue, only white here), we obserA'e over his head the sign 

 kan and a fish above that; in his right hand, a bird's feather; in his 

 left, the spiral, combined with the abbreviated glyph for the west 

 and south. Among the glyphs above is that of the south in both full 

 and in abbreviated form. 



This group is continued on page 30c, where the god, at whose feet 

 there is an animal, holds a spear in his left hand, point downward; 

 directly above it we find our spiral combined with the abbreviated 

 glyphs for the west and south. Among the glyphs above we again 

 find those for the west and south. 



These three })ictures, however, are preceded by a fourth, which 

 completes the whole row. Here the god is in a boat; close by his head 

 is the picture of a bird's head ; among the glyphs above we find that 



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