INTRODUCTION TO STUDY OF MAYA HIEROGLYPHS 



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1st Division 



4th Division 



1st part, 26 days, beginning 

 with day 



2d part, 26 days, beginning 

 with day 



3d part, 13 days, beginning 

 with day 



Total number of days 



13 Caban 



13 Akbal 



65 



13 Cib 



13 Lamat 



65 



13Imix 

 13 Manik 



13 Ben 



65 



13 Cimi 

 13 Eb 



13 Eznab 



65 



Next tonalamatl: 1st division, 1st part, 26 days, beginning with the day 13 

 Chuen, etc. 



Applying the test rule to this tonalamatl (see rule 4, p. 253), we 

 have: 26 + 26 + 13 = 65, the sum of the black numbers, and 4 the 

 number of the day signs in the column of day signs,^ 65x4 = 260, 

 the exact number of days in a tonalamatl. 



The next tonalamatl (see the upper part of pi. 27, that is, Dresden 

 12a) occupies only the latter two-thirds of the upper division, the 

 black 12 and red 11 being the last black and red numbers, respec- 

 tively, of another tonalamatl. 



The presence of 10 day signs arranged in two parallel columns of 

 five each would seem at first to indicate that this is a tonalamatl of 

 10 divisions, but it develops from the calculations that instead there 

 are recorded here two tonalamatls of five divisions each, the first 

 column of day signs designating one tonalamatl and the second 

 another quite distinct therefrom. 



The first red numeral is somewhat effaced, indeed all the red has 

 disappeared and only the black outline of the glyph remains. Its 

 position, however, above the column of daj^ signs, seems to indicate 

 its color and use, and we are reasonably safe in statmg that the first 

 of the two tonalamatls here recorded began with the day 8 Ahau. 

 Adding to this the first black number, 27, the beginning day of the 

 next subdivision will be found to be 9 Manik, neither the coefficient 

 nor day sign of which appears in the text. Assuming that the calcu- 

 lation is correct, however, and adding the next black number, 25 

 (also out of place), to this day, 9 Manik, the beginning day of the 

 next part will be 8 Eb. But since 25 is the last black number, 8 Eb 

 will be the beginning day of the next main division and should appear 

 as the second sign in the first column of day signs. Comparison of 

 this form with figure 17, r, will show that Eb is recorded in this place. 



The last sign Chuen, as mentioned above, is only 

 has re-entered itself. 



repetition of the first sign, indicating that the 



