xnoMAs] EXPLANATION OF CONDENSED CALENDAR. 13 



11 at the top. Therefore 8 Ahau of the year 11 Kan is the 17th day of the 

 second and also of fifteenth month.^ 



In the same way we ascertain that 8 Ahau of the year 1 1 Muliic is the 

 twelfth day of the twelfth month, but in this case we have to count the 

 columns from the one commencing with 1 1 (always inclusive) to the right, 

 through to the thirteenth (the one with 7 at the top), and go back to the 

 first and count up to the one in which we find the figure 8 in the twelftli 

 transverse line. We also find that 8 Ahau of the year 11 Ix is the seventh 

 day of the ninth month. 



If I have succeeded in making this complicated system thus far intel- 

 ligible to the reader, I may hope to succeed in conveying a correct idea of 

 what is to follow. 



Now let us test our arrangement by a historical example. In the Perez 

 manuscript translated by Stephens and published in his "Yucatan," Vol. II, 

 it is stated that, one Ajpula died in the j^ear 4 Kan, the 18th day of the 

 month Zip, on 9 Ymix. 



The year 4 Kan commences with the column of our table which has 



4 for the top figure. The third month (Zip) will then be the column with 



5 at the top; running down this to the eighteenth transverse line we find 

 the figure 9 ; we also observe that the 1 8th da}^ in the Kan column of the 

 names of days is Ymix, agreeing exactly with the date given 



In the manuscript Troano there is another method of giving dates 

 which is very common throvighout the work. Thus: 



1 . 1 n . . . , , OOP 



wmcii, accordmg to my mterpretation, the reasons tor ' ..: Red.- 



which will be hereafter given, signifies 13 Ahau of the ^ ^ ,. 

 thirteenth month. 



As neither the year nor the day of the month is 

 given, it is evident that we may find more than one day 

 answering to this date, but let us hunt them out and see ^^'^' ^' 

 where the}^ fall. Referring to our table we will first take the Ahau 

 0fpi the Cauac column, which is in the second transverse line; the 13 in 



' Tlie reader can readily see from the table wby any day found in the first, second, third, fourth, or 

 fifth mouth will be found twice in the year. 



-As colors cannot bo introduced into these figures, the red numerals will be represented in out- 

 line. 



