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MAYA AND MEXICAN MANUSCRIPTS 



table enables us to do by following it out in tbe manner explained. I 

 also give in Plate II another figure of the plate of the Cortesian Codex, 

 with the effaced characters inserted, and the interchange of Caban and 

 Eb which will be hereafter explained. This plate corresponds with the 

 plan or scheme shown in Fig. 2* 



In this we commence with Kau, numbered 1, in the top row, moving 

 thence toward the left as already indicated, following the course shown 

 by the numbers. 



By this time the reader, if he has studied the plate with care, has 

 probably encountered one difficulty in the way of the explanation given ; 

 that there are usually twelve large dots instead of eleven, as there should 

 be, between the day signs; as, for example, between Kan No. 1 and 

 Cib No. 2, in the upper row. This I am unable to explain, except on 

 the supposition that the artist included but one of the day signs in the 

 count, or that it was not the intention to be very exact in this respect. 

 The fact that the number of dots in a row is not always the same, there 

 being in some cases as many as thirteen, and in others but eleven, 

 renders the latter supposition probable. In the scheme the number of 

 dots in the lines is given as nearly as possible as on the plate. 



As there are four different series of years in the Maya calendar, the 

 Cauac years, Kau years, Mnluc years, and Ix years, it is necessary that 

 we have four different tables, similar to that given for the Cauac years, 

 to represent them, or to combine all in one table. 



As I have adopted in my former work 5 a scheme of combining them 

 I will insert it here (Table III). 



Table III. — Condensed Maya Calendar. 



4 As the reduction of the cut prevents the insertion of the names of the days, let- 

 ters have been substituted for them in the quadrilateral or inner ring as follows : 



In the top line.— Ymix, a; Chicehau, b; Muluc, c; Been, d, and Caban, e. 

 In the left column.— Cimi,/; Ik, g; Oc, h; Ix, i, and Ezanab,/ 

 In the bottom line.— Akbal, k; Manik, I; Chuen, m; Men, «, and Cauac, o. 

 In the right column.— Kan, p ; Lamat, q; Eb, r; Ahau, s, and Cib, t. 



5 Study of the Manuscript Troano, p. 11. 



