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quently occurring before this sign proves abundantly that one of the 

 four Bacabs is intended. 



(3) c. On page (> of my treatise just referred to in connection 

 with the preceding glyph I mentioned the discovery of the character 

 given here as <■ in the eighth and sixteenth of the 28 groups. I had 

 reasons for making the ritual year reconstructed there begin with the 

 spring eciuinox, and the consequent positions indicated for the two 

 signs were June and September; that is, the beginning and the end 

 of the rainy season. It seems to me to represent a cloud from which 

 three streams of water are falling upon the earth. The obsidian 

 knife added below may here indicate, as it often does, a division, or 

 period, of time. On page 36c of the Dreden coclex we see the figure 

 of a god standing in the water and looking upward, upon whom 

 similarly drawn raindrops are falling from a rain cloud, clearly 

 distinguishable as such. 



(4) d. This sign occurs very frequently, with different variants, in 

 the manuscript, but probably never in the inscriptions. In the 

 treatise mentioned in connection with the preceding glyph, I have 

 already cursorily pointed out that a somewhat similar sign seemed at 

 least to approximate the idea of the week of 13 days, and I would like 

 to speak more in detail concerning it. I will first remark that even in 

 the manuscripts I can point out this glyph only in those sections which 

 contain tonalamatls. It is therefore missing in the entire second part 

 of the Dresden codex, from page 46 onward; also in the first part 

 from page 25 to 28, and likewise in the Troand codex on those pages 

 which correspond to the last-named pages, that is, 23 to 20, etc. It 

 occurs more frequently with day XIII than with any other week day, 

 as in the Dresden codex, pages lie and 41a, and in the Troano codex, 

 pages loc, 16a, 30c to 29c and 31*b. Furthermore, it appears after 

 the period of 13 days, as in Troano codex, page 16c, and after 6+7 

 days in the Dresden codex at least, page 23c. But it is used especially 

 at the close of the divisions of the tonalamatl, as after 2X13=26 days 

 in the Dresden codex, page 14c, in the Troano codex, page 31*b, and in 

 the Cortesian codex, page 29b; after 4X13=52 days in the Dresden 

 codex, pages lie, 22b; after 5X13=65 days in the Dresden codex, 

 page 16b, and in the Troano codex, page 7*c. Indeed, in the Troano 

 codex, pages 30c to 29c, it appears to be added to each of the five divi- 

 sions of 13 days each, which, however, is uncertain on account of the 

 careless drawing. And in (he Troano codex, pages 8c to 7c, where the 

 52 days are divided into five sections (4X10+12) it is likewise em- 

 ployed five times. Finally, I call attention to it in the Dresden codex, 

 page 30b, where it closes 10X13=130 days. I think these examples 

 are sufficient to warrant me in ascribing to this glyph the function of 

 denoting the week of 13 davs or the close of such a week having the 

 day XIII. 



