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A STUDY OF THE MANUSCRIPT TROANU. 



devoted some time to the study of this subject is the fact that the period 

 embraced is precisely that which is supposed by most authorities to con- 

 stitute one Ahau. But let me here warn such reader against a too hasty 

 conclusion. 



Supposing we are so far correct, what use are we to make of the I'ed 

 numeral — 13 — in the spacef Let us suppose that it is also to be applied to 

 the days as the other red numeral, using the same month. This gives us 

 the following years: 



Years 

 Years . 

 Years . 

 Years . 



i:i Oc. 

 . 8 Cauac. 

 .13 Kan. 

 . 5 Muluc. 

 . 3Ix. 



13 Ik. 

 3 Cauac. 

 1 Kau. 

 6 Muluc. 

 11 Ix. 



VA Ix. 



4 Cauac. 

 9 Kan. 

 1 Muluc. 

 OIx. 



13 Clmi. 



12 Cauac. 



4 Kan. 



2 Muluc. 



7 Ix. 



13 Ezanah. 

 13 Cauac. 



5 Kau. 

 10 Muluc. 



2Ix. 



If we attempt to locate these in the same cycle as the preceding period, 



Table VIII. ^® shall find that the two clash with each other — that 



is, that some of the years of the first are the same as 



some of the second; but it is evident they may be located 



in another cycle. 



Before proceeding further with the discussion of 

 this difficult question, we must remind the reader of 

 what possibly he has already inferred — that in our 

 allusion to the "intervals'' between the days of the col- 

 umns, our object then was simply to show a regularity 

 not consistent with the idea that they were used on 

 account of the signification of the words, and not to 

 lead him to suppose that the real interval intended was 

 only the number of days mentioned. We also wish to 

 call his attention to another fact which is becoming more 

 and more apparent as we proceed — that the regularity 

 of the intervals which seems apparent, whatever may 

 be our final conclusion as to what the black numerals 

 refer to, and the great number of dates as compared with 

 the text, preclude the supposition that the work is historical. I shall there- 

 fore proceed upon the theory that it is, to a large extent at least, a kind of 

 religious calendar — not with any particular desire to maintain this opinion. 



