FOKSTEMANN.] MAYA CHRONOLOGY 487 



The 8 with the kin beneath it may denote the 8 clays which have 

 elapsed between IV 17 and XTI 5; but it may rather (for it quite 

 accords witli Maya usage to hav(^ one number refer to several signs) 

 belong to the katun sign, for the following reasons: 



The point of departure in the Mercury series (which T regarded as 

 a Saturn series in m}'^ Erlauterungen) is the day XII 5. This date 

 occurs with two numbers: l,-112,8-t8, that is, year 6 Muluc; 1, 15th 

 month, on page 52 ; and 1,578,988, that is, j'ear 6 Kan ; G, 18th month, 

 on page 51. The first of the two large numbers occurs 166,140 days 

 before the second, but the first date occurs 30 years 65 days=:=^ 14,300 

 days before the second. If we add to this 14,300 the number 151,840, 

 that is, 8 katuns, the result is actually 166,140, and to that this group 

 of signs seems to me to point. 



I merely allude in passing to the fact that this Icatun sign also 

 occurs in the columns on pages 61 and 69 discussed above close beside 

 the other glyphs referring to a period of time. 



If we look more closely at the j^assage on page 61 just mentioned, 

 we find directly above the katun sign a neAv glyph not yet men- 

 tioned, p. 



We will now look at the last column but one on the upper half of 

 page 73. The uj^permost sign is destroyed. Then follow the katun 

 sign, the new sign, the 7,200 sign, and the number 34,732. 



Now, everything seems to point to the probability that the new 

 sign is the ahau sign of the value 24X365=:8,760. Let us now add 

 the three numbers : 



18, 980 

 8,760 

 7, 200 



34, 940 



It all refers to the day IV 9. But this occurs 208 days before the 

 normal date IV 17, and to it therefore rightly belongs a — 208, and 

 34,940—208 is really 34,732. 



In the loAver part of the third column of page 70 are five signs, one 

 above the other. The first of these is the ahau sign (of 8,760 days) ; 

 the third, the 7,200 sign; and the fifth, the 360 sign. We are 

 prompted to seek the meaning of the second and fourth. 



Glyph q- shows us the second sign. It is the Chicchan head, with 

 a prefix, probably phallic, which we know as an element of the 

 months Yaxkin and Yax, of the sign for the south, etc. Now, when 

 we see that the same Chicchan head, with the same prefix, also occurs 

 on page 61, in the middle of the first colunni, and on page 69, in 

 the middle of the third cohnnn, in a connection, too, quite similar 

 to this one on pages 21c and 23b, but in very different surroundings, 



