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BUREAU OP AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



Maya, conception of the rotation of days firmly in his mind at the 

 outset, since all that is to follow depends upon the absolute con- 

 tinuity of this twenty-day sequence in endless repetition. 



CHICCHAN 



The glyphs for these twenty days are shown in figures 16 and 17. 

 The forms in figure 16 arc from the inscriptions and those in figure 

 17 from the codices. In several cases variants arc given to facilitate 

 identification. A study of the glyphs in these two figures shows on 

 the whole a fairly close similarity between the forms for the same 



