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EXPLANATION OF THE TABLEAU DES BACAB. 17 



If we turn, now, to the Manuscript Troano, and examine the day col- 

 umns, comparing them with these four groups as I have corrected them 

 by this single transposition, I think we shall And one clue at least to the 

 object of the arrangement we observe on this plate. As but few are 

 likely to have the Manuscript at hand, I will refer to Chapter VII of my 

 work {A Study of the Manuscript Troano), where a large number of these 

 day columns are given. In making the comparison I ask the reader to 

 use my scheme (Fig. 2). Commencing with the first column on page 

 165, we find it to be Mauik, Cauac, Chuen, Akbal, Men, precisely the 

 same days as in the bottom line. The next two on the same page are 

 first Akbal, Muluc. Men, Ymix, Mauik, and second, Ben, Cauac, Chic 

 chan, Chuen, Cabau, taken alternately from the bottom and top lines 

 of the quadrilateral. 



On the lower part of the same page (105) is another column with the 

 following days, Ahau, (Jc, Eb, Ik, Kan, Ix, Cib, Cimi, Lamat, taken al- 

 ternately from the right and left sides of the plate as given in our scheme. 

 But there are only nine names in the column, when the order in which 

 they are taken would seem to require ten. By examining the plate (IV) 

 in the Manuscript the reader will see that there are indications that one 

 at the top has been obliterated. By examining the right and left col- 

 umns of our scheme we see that the omitted one is Ezauab. By conuting 

 the intervals between the days, as explained in my work, we find them 

 to be alternately two and ten, and that by this rule the missing day 

 is Ezanab. The reader will notice in these examples that Eb and Caban 

 belong to the positions I have given them in my scheme (Fig. 2). 



Turning to page 100 we find the first column (from "second division," 

 Plate IV) to be Kan, Cib, Lamat, Ahau, Eb, the same days as in the 

 right column of our scheme. The second column, Cauac, Chuen, Akbal, 

 Men, Mauik, the same as the lower line of the scheme. The first column 

 on page 167 has the same days as the right column of the plate, as cor- 

 rected in my scheme and our Plate II. The second column of this page 

 presents a new combination. We have so far found the names of a day 

 column all in a single group or line of our plate, or taken alternately 

 from opposite sides; here we find them taken alternately from each of 

 the tour sides of the quadrilateral moving around to the left in the order 

 I have heretofore explained. The days in this column are Cabau, Ik, 

 Manik, Eb, Caban. One is taken from the upper line (as corrected), 

 then one from the left side, next from the bottom line, then from the 

 right side (as corrected), and then the same from the top line. 



It is unnecessary for me to give more examples, as the reader can 

 make the comparison for himself; and he will, as I believe, find my 

 theory sustained. 



The only real objection I can see to my explanation of the arrange- 

 ment of the days in this circle is the fact that it necessitates the trans- 

 position of two characters, but it is not unreasonable to suppose that 

 the artist may have made this one mistake. 

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