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INDEX 



Kin. See Day. 



KuKULCAN (god), nature. 



16-17 



Labor, customs 9 



Landa, Bishop Diego de— 



biography 7 



on Maya alphabet 27 



on Maya calendar 42, 44, 45, 84 



on Maya customs 7, 13-14, 19 



on Maya records 34, 36 



Landry, M. D., investigations 194 



Leyden Plate, interpretation 179, 194-198 



LlTERATXfRE, list XV-XVi 



See also Bibliography. 

 Long Count— 



date fixing in 147-151, 240-245 



nature 60-63 



See also Chronology. 



Maize God, nature 18 



Maler, Teobert— 



cited 162, 



166, 170, 176, 177, 178, 207, 210, 224, 226, 227, 231 



on Altar 5 at Tikal 244 



Manners and customs, description 7-21 



Marriage customs 8-9 



Mars-Solar period, relation to tonalamatl. 278 



Mat pattern of glyphs 191-194 



Maudslay, a. p.— 



cited 157, 167, 169, 170, 171, 173, 175, 179, 



180, 181, 183, 185, 186, 188, 191, 203, 

 205, 213, 215, 218, 220, 223, 224, 225, 

 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 235, 240, 242 



on zero glyph 93 



Maya, sui'%nving tribes 1-2 



Maya, Southern— 



cities 2-4 



occupancy of, diagram showing 15 



government 15-16 



rise and fall 2-4 



Mayapan (city) — 



history 4-6 



mortuary customs 12 



time records 33-34 



Military customs, nature 10-11 



Minus sign. Ste Backward .sign. 

 Month. See Uinal. 

 Monuments— 



age 249-250 



date of erection 179, 



194,203,209-210,213,220-222 



historical dates on 179 



period-marking function 33-35,249-250 



texts. See Inscriptions. 



See also Stel^. 



Moon, computation of revolutions 32 



MoRLEY, S. G., on Books of Chilan Balara. . 3 

 Mythology, dates 179, 180, 194, 228 



Nacon (official), duties 13 



Nahua, influence on Maya 5-6 



Naranjo (city)— 



antiquity 15 



Stela 22, interpretation 162-164 



Stela 23, error in 248 



interpretation 224 



Stela 24, interpretation 166-167 



Supplementary Series, absence 163-164 



Normal date, fixing of 61 



Normal forms of time-period glyphs. 

 See Time periods. 



North Star, deification 18 



Numbers, expression— 



high 103-134 



thirteen to nineteen 96, 101, 111-112 



Numeral.?— 



bar and dot system 87-95 



examples, plates showdng 157, 



167,170,176,178,179 



colors 91, 251 



combinations of, for higher numbers. . . 105-107 



forms 87-104 



head-variant forms 24-25, 87, 96-104 



plates showing 167, 170, 176, 178, 179, 180 



one to nineteen, bar and dot forms 88-90 



head -variant forms 97-101 



order of reading 23,129,133,137-138,156,170 



ornamental variants 89-91 



parallels to Roman and ,\rabic systems.. 87 



solution 134-155 



systems 87-134 



comparison 133 



See also Vigesimal system. 



transcribing, mode 138 



See also Hieroglyphs; Thirteen; 

 Twenty; Zero. 

 Numerical coefficients 127-128 



Palenqlte (city)— 



history 15 



palace stair\vay inscription, interpre- 

 tation 1S3-1.8S 



Temple of the Cross, tablet, interpreta- 

 tion 205-207, 227 



Temple of the Foliated Cross, tablet, in- 

 terpretation 180-181, 223-224, 227 



Temple of the Inscriptions, tablet, inter- 

 pretation 84, 225-226 



Temple of the Sun, tablet, interpreta- 

 tion 181-182 



Period-ending dates— 



ending glyph 102 



examples, interpretation 222-240 



plates showing 223, 227, 233, 235 



glyphs 77-79, 102 



katun used in 222-225 



nature 222 



tun used in 225-226 



Period-marking Stones. See Monuments. 

 Phonetic writing— 



argument for 26-30 



traces discovered iv, 26-30 



PlEDRAS Negras (city)— 



altar inscription, interpretation 227 



antiquity 15 



Stela 1, interpretation 210-213 



Stela 3, interpretation 233-235 



Plongeon, F. Le, cited 27 



Ponce, Alonzo, on Maya records 36 



PRIE.STHOOD, organization 20-21 



Prophesying, codices used for 31 



Prophetic dates— 



229-233 



271-272 



