234 BUEEAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 5? 



is, 1.1.11.10. Reducing this number to units of the first order and 

 counting it forward from the (htte next preceding it in the text, that 

 is, 1 Cib 14 Kankin in C2b D2a, the new terminal date reached Mill 

 be 4 Cimi 14 Uo, which the student will find recorded in D5-C6. 

 Compare the day sign in D5 with figure 16, h, i, and the month 

 sign in C6 with figure 19, 6, c. The Initial-series value of this new 

 dite may be calculated from the known Initial-series value of the 

 preceding date : 



9.12.14.10.16 1 Cib 14 Kankin 

 1. 1.11.10 



9.13.16. 4. 6 4 Cimi 14 Uo 



The third Secondary Series appears in El and consists of 15 kins,* 8 

 umals, and 3 tims, or 3.8.15. Reducing this number to imits of the 

 first order and counting it forward from the date next preceding it 

 in the text, 4 Cimi 14 Uo, in D5-C6, the new terminal date reached 

 will be 11 Imix 14 Yax, which the student Avdll find recorded in E2 F2. 

 The day sign in E2 appears, as is very unusual, as a head variant of 

 which only the headdress seems to show the essential element of the 

 day sign Imix. Compare E2 with figure 16, a, 6, also the month 

 sign in F2 with figure 19, g, r. The Initial Series of this new terminal 

 date may be calculated as above: 



9.13.16. 4. 6 4 Cimi 14 Uo 



3. 8.15 

 9.13.19.13. 1 11 Imix 14 Yax 



The fourth and last Secondary Series in this text follows in F6 and 

 consists of 19 kins and 4 uinals, that is, 4.19. Reducing this number 

 to units of the first order and counting it forward from the date next 

 preceding it in the text, 11 Imix 14 Yax in E2 F2, the new terminal 

 date reached will be 6 Ahau 13 Muan, which the student will find 

 recorded in F7-F8. Compare the month sign in F8 with figure 19, 

 a' b'. But the glyph follo\\ing tliis date in F9 is very clearly an 

 encUng sign; note the hand, tassel-like postfix, and subfLxial element 

 showing the curl infix, all of wliich are characteristic ending elements 

 (see figs. 37, l-q, and 54). Moreover, in FlO is recorded "the end 

 of Katun 14." Compare the ending prefix in tliis glyph mth figure 

 37, a-h. This would seem to indicate that the date in F7-F8, 6 Ahau 

 13 Muan, closed Katun 14 of Cycle 9 of the Long Count. \^liether 

 tliis be true or not may be tested by finding the Initial-series value 

 corresponding to 6 Ahau 13 Muan, as above: 



9.13.19.13. 1 11 Imix 14 Yax 



4.19 

 9.14. 0. 0. 6 Ahau 13 Muan 



1 In this number also the positions of the uinal and kin coefficients are reversed. 



