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A STUDY OF THE MANUSCRIPT TROANO. 



Miiluc, Oc, Cliuen, Eb, Ben, Ix, Men, Cib, Caban, Ezanab, Cauac, Abau, 

 Ymix, Ik, Akbal, was always preserved. For example, if tbe montb began 

 witli Muluc, the second day would be Oc, the third Chuen, and so on to 

 Akbal; then followed Kan, just as we Avould name seven days com- 

 mencing, say, with AVednesday, then Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 

 Monday, &c. 



The Maya year contained 365 days and consisted of two unequal parts, 

 as follows: 360 days, or the year proper, divided into eighteen months of 

 twenty days each; and five intercalary days, which were added at the end 

 in order to complete tlie number 365. 



The eighteen months were named and numbered as follows: 

 1. Pop; 2. Uo; 3. Zip; 4. Tzoz; 5. Tzec; 6. Xul; 7. Yaxkin; 8. Mol; 

 9. Chen; 10. Yax; 11. Zac; 12. Ceh; 13. Mac; 14. Kankin; 15. Muan; 16. 

 Pax; 17. Kayab; 18. Cumlm. 



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Fig. 3. — Moiitli diaracters. 



The year always commenced with the same month — Pop — tlie others 

 invariably following in the order given, so that the number of the month 

 being given we know its name. 



But eighteen months of twenty daj's each not completing the year, five 

 days were added after the close of Cumhu — not as a part of that montli, 

 for no month could liave either more or less than twenty day.s — to complete 



