CONTENTS 



Chapter I. The Maya ^^^\ 



Habitat "'!''!!!"! ^! 1 



History 2 



Manners and customs j 



II. The Maya hieroglyphic writiii? 22 



III. How the Maya reckoned time 37 



The tonalamatl, or 260-day period 41 



The haab, or year of 365 days 44 



The Calendar Kound, or 18,980-day period 51 



The Long Count gO 



Initial Series. 



63 



The introducing glyph 64 



The cycle glyph gg 



The katun glyph gg 



The tun glyph 70 



The uinal glyph 70 



The kin glyph 72 



Secondary Series 74 



Calendar-round dates 7g 



Period-ending dates 77 



U kahlay katunob 79 



IV. Maya arithmetic g7 



Bar and dot numerals g7 



Head-variant numerals gg 



First method of numeration IO5 



Number of cycles in a great cycle IO7 



Second method of numeration 129 



First step in solving Maya numbers I34 



Second step in solving Maya numbers 135 



Third step in solving Maya numbers " isg 



Fourth step in solving Maya numbers 13g 



Fifth step in solving Maya numbers 151 



V. The inscriptions 15g 



Texts recording Initial Series 157 



Texts recording Initial Series and Secondary Series 207 



Texts recording Period Endings 222 



Texts recording Initial Series, Secondary Series, and Period 



Endings 233 



Errors in the originals 245 



VI. The codices 251 



Texts recording tonalamatls 251 



Texts recording Initial Series 266 



Texts recording Serpent Numbers 273 



Texts recording Ascending Series 276 



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