34 MAYA AND MEXICAN MANUSCRIPTS. 



•' Water. 5. Grass. 8. Eagle. 11. Flint. 



3. Dog. 6. Cane. 9. Vulture. 12. Eain. 



4. Monkey. 7. Tiger. 10. Movement. 13. Flower. 



Although the Mexican equivalents of these names may be inferred 

 from what has already been giveu, I will insert the Mexican and English 

 names of the twenty days here, opposite each other. 



Table XVI. 



Mex. Eng. - u, -<- En 9- 



Cipactli (Dragon). Ozomatli (Monkey). 



Ehecatl (Wind). Malinalli (Grass). 



Calli (House). AcatI (Cane). 



Cuetzpalin (Lizard). Ocelot! (Tiger). 



Coatl (Snake). Quauhtli (Eagle). 



Miquiztli (Death). Cozcaquauhtli (Vulture). 



Mazatl (Deer). Ollin (Movement). 



Tochtli (Rabbit). Tecpatl (Flint). 



Atl (Water). Quiahuitl (Eain). 



Itzcnintli (Dog). Xochitl (Flower). 



Examining the looped line, Plate III, we notice at each of the outer 

 and inner bends one of the day symbols. (Iu the plate of the Cortesiau 

 Codex there are two.) We therefore take for granted that this is the first 

 day of the week, or indication of thirteen days, hence we should commence 

 with Cipactli (or Dragon). This we find at the upper right hand corner 

 of the inner square or right base of the large red loop. Judging from the 

 direction of the birds' heads and otherfacts heretofore noted, we presume 

 the direction in which we are to move is around toward the left. Count- 

 ing the day symbol as one, and each of the twelve dots up the red line as 

 one day, we come to the symbol in the upper right-hand corner of the 

 loop as the first day of the next week. This we find is Ocelotl (Tiger), 

 just as we find it to be in the calendar table and list of days. Moving 

 along the upper red line to the comer at the left we find the next char- 

 acter is Mazatl (or Deer), agreeing exactly with the calendar and list. 

 Moving down the left red line to the inner corner we come to the symbol 

 for Xochitl (or Flower), also agreeing with the calendar and list. Pro- 

 ceeding from thence up the white line we reach next the symbol for the 

 day AcatI (Cane) iu the red circle surrounded by a yellow line. Here 

 we see a marked distinction between this and the other day symbols 

 we have named, a distinction which applies only to the four at the cor- 

 ners — the four year symbols — AcatI, Tecpatl, Calli, and Tochtli. 



In order that the reader may compare the names in this looped line 

 with the calendar, I present here a scheme of it similar to that given of 



