CHAPTER II 



THE MAYA CALENDAR. 



The Maya divisions of time (no notice is taken here of the divisions 

 of the day) were as follows: The day, the week, the month, the year, the 

 five intercalated days, the week of years, the Ahan or Katun, the cycle of 

 fifty-two years, and the Ahau Katun or great epoch. 



The day ("Kin" or Sun) was used in the ordinary sense, each of the 

 twenty days of the month having its name, as we name the days of our 

 week, and its character or hieroglyph, as follows: 



KAN. CHICCHAN. CIM(. MANIK. LAMAT. 



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The characters here given are copied from Landa's work, our only 

 original authority on this point. There are several important variations 

 from these forms found in the Manuscript, but these, the orthography of 

 the names according to difterent authors, together with the significations of 

 the names, have been given by others, hence will not be repeated here. 

 Although the month did not always commence with the same day, the order 

 of the days as here given, to wit, Kan, Chicchan, Cimi, Manik, Lamat, 



