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were colonizing Yucatan the southern branch was laying the founda- 

 tion of the civilization which was to flourish later luider the name of 

 the Quiche and other allied peoples; and finally, that as Chichen Itza 

 was a later northern city, so Quen Santo was a later southern 

 site, the two being at one period of their existence at least approxi- 

 mately contemporaneous, as these two Initial Series show. 



It should be noted in this connection that Cycle-10 Initial Series 

 are occasionally recorded in the Dresden Codex, though the dates in 

 these cases are all later than those recorded on the Chichen Itza lintel 

 and the Quen Santo stelas. Before closing the presentation of Initial- 

 series texts it is first necessary to discuss two very unusual and highly 

 irregidar examples of this method of dating, namely, the Initial Series 

 from the east side of Stela C at Quirigua and the Initial Series from 

 the tablet in the Temple of the Cross at Palenque. The dates 

 recorded in these two texts, so far as known,^ are the only ones which 

 are not counted from the starting point of Maya chronology, the date 

 4 Ahau 8 Cumhu. 



In figure 77, ^, is shown the Initial Series on the east side of Stela C 

 at Quirigua.^ The introducing glyph appears in A1-B2, and is fol- 

 lowed by the Initial-series number in A3-A5. The student will easily 

 read this as 13.0.0.0.0. . Reducing this number to units of the first 

 order by means of Table XIII, we have : 



A3 = 13 X 144, 000 = 1, 872, 000 

 B3= OX 7, 200= 



A4= OX 360= 



B4= OX 20= 



A5= OX 1= 



1, 872, 000 



Deducting from tliis number all the Calendar Rounds possible, 98 ^ 

 (see Table XVI), and applying rules 1, 2, and 3 (pp. 139, 140, and 

 141), respectively, to the remainder, the termmal date reached should 

 be, under ordinary circumstances, 4 Ahau 3 Kankin. An inspection 

 of our text, however, will show that the terminal date recorded in 

 B5-A6 is unmistakably 4 Ahau 8 Cumliu, and not 4 Ahau 3 Kankin. 

 The month part in A6 is unusually clear, and there can be no doubt 



1 Up to the present time no successful interpretation of the inscription on Stela C at Copan has been 

 advanced. The inscription on each side of this monument is headed by an introducing glyph, but in 

 neither case is this followed by an Initial Series. A number consisting of 11.14.5.1.0 is recorded in connec- 

 tion with the date 6 Ahau 18 Kayab, but as this date does not appear to be fixed in the Long Count, there 

 is no way of ascertainmg whether it is earlier or later than the starting pomt of Maya chronology. Mr. Bow- 

 ditch (1910: pp. 195-196) offers an interesting explanation of this monument, to which the student is 

 referred for the possible explanation of this text. A personal inspection of this inscription failed to 

 confirm, however, the assumption on which Mr. Bowditch's conclusions rest. For the full text of this 

 inscription, see Maudslay, 1889-1902: I, pis. 39-11. 



2 For the full text of this inscription, see ibid.: n, pis. 16, 17, 19. 



3 Table XVI contains only SO Calendar Rounds (1,518,400), but by adding 18 Calendar Rounds (341,640) 

 the number to be subtracted, 98 Calendar Rounds (1,860,040), will be reached. 



