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twenty-third, thirty-tliird, and forty-eighth of the 52 days, with the 

 gods B, C, H, K, and E, successively in the sixth, fourth, fifth, sixth, 

 and fifth phices of each of the six glyphs. On page 5c we find it 

 placed with the god D, page 6b with E, 7c with H, 10b with B, 11a 

 with H, lib with L, lie with E, 12a with K, 13b with C, 14c with 

 D, I7b with an undetermined female deity, likewise 19b and 20c, 21b 

 with A, 21c with I), 22b perhaps with I, 23c with D and with three 

 female personages. Here, in every case, the glyph is in a tonalamatl. 

 It is wholly lacking on the astronomic page 24, notwithstanding 

 that it contains 40 glyphs. Of the four calendric pages, 25 to 28, 

 containing no tonalamatl, only jDage 26 contains this sign, where it 

 stands in the middle row between the glyphs of E and U. In the 

 large section devoted to god B, which contains so many tonalamatls, 

 it is missing, strange to say, on all the pages from 29 to 37 and then 

 appears again three times, on 3Sb, 39a, and 40a, each time with the 

 picture of this god. The last five pages of the first part of the 

 manuscript, 41 to 45, again entirely lack this character, although 

 gods and tonalamatls abound in them. 



In the second division of the Dresden codex, pages 46 to 74, the 

 ritual year becomes of secondary importance and the astronomic year 

 becomes more prominent. Accordingly, we rarely find this glyph 

 here. On pages 46 to 50, on which the Venus and solar years are 

 made to agree, it is found only once, on page 48 at the top on the 

 right, directly in the center of the 20-membered period of 2,920 days, 

 beside its tenth member. In the large section pages 51 to 60 this 

 sign is wholly lacking. We first find it again on page 65, in the lower 

 half. Here the period treated of is the ritual year of 364 days, the 

 actual year 9 Kan, it would seem, the sign of which is on the left of 

 the glyph under discussion. However, 9 Kan is the middle point of 

 the great world epoch beginning wdth the year 9 Ix. At the end of 

 the same section, 91 days, or a quarter of a year later, lower half of 

 page 69, this glyph appears again. But what it may mean above 

 on the same page, likewise at the end of 91 days, where it is connected 

 Avith the ordinary sign of the owl (death bird) we must leave quite 

 undecided. This section, which I have discussed more fully in the 

 Zeitschrift fiir Ethnologic, 1891, presents special difficulties. Finally, 

 in the last example offered by our manuscript, page 73, in the middle, 

 our glyph stands directly under the sign of the death god A in the 

 twentieth member of a series, each member of which denotes 13 days; 

 that is, after 13X20 days, just a tonalamatl from the beginning of the 

 year. 



So much we know concerning the different circumstances under 

 which this glyph appears in the Dresden codex, and yet we have 

 hardly formed an opinion concerning its meaning, to find which must 



