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A STUDY OF TOE MANUSCRIPT TROANO. 



1542 (whether we count 20 or 21 years to the Ahau), while according to 

 Lancia it closed with 1540. 



He asserts, while writing his work in Spain in 1566, that: "It is now 

 120 years since Mayapan was destroyed." As this number could have 

 been obtained only by counting Ahaues, it must have been understood by 

 him as covering just six of these periods, and hence the correct number 

 would be 144 years instead of 120. This number carries us back to the 

 year 1422 or 1423, the last of the Xth or first of the Vlllth Ahau. Co- 

 guUudo places the destruction of Mayapan about 1420 of the Christian era; 

 the Perez manuscript places it in the 8th Ahau. As the above calculation 

 places it in the last of the tenth or the first of the eighth, the discrepancy is 

 but slight, and the agreement as close as could be expected in an attempt 

 to reconcile such general statements. 



Senor Perez seems to have taken as his chief authority, in comparing 

 dates of the two systems, the statements of certain writers to the effect that 

 the year 1392 of our era corresponded with the year 7 Cauac of the 8th 

 Ahau of the Maya system.^ 



Unfortunately he mentions but one of these authorities — Don Cosme 

 de Burgos — whose work he informs us "has been lost." 



' " Serie de los afios corridos en dos Aliau Katuu, tomando su principio eu 1392 en que pas<5 segun 

 los manuscritos el 8 Ahau en el auo 7 Cauac: 



8« Ahau Katun. 



1392 7 Cauac. 



1393 8 Kan. 



1394 9Muluc. 



1395 lOHix. 



1396 11 Cauac. 



1397 12 Kan. 



1416 5 Cauac. 



1417 6 Kan. 



1418 7Muluc. 



1419 BHix. 



1420 9 Cauac. 



1421 10 Kan. 



1398 13Muluc. 



1399 IHix. 



1400 2 Cauac. 



1401 3 Kan. 



1402 4Muluc. 



1403 5Hix. 



1404 . .■ ti Cauac. 



1405 7 Kan. 



1406 SMuIuc. 



1407 9Hix. 



1408 10 Cauac. 



1409 11 Kan. 



6« Ahau Katun. 



1422 llMuluc. 



1423 12Hix. 



1424 13 Cauac. 



1425 1 Kan. 



1426 2Muluc. 



1427 3Hix. 



1428 4 Cauac. 



1429 5Kau. 



1430 6Muluc. 



1431 7Hix. 



1432 8 Cauac. 



1433 9 Kan. 



1410 12Muluc. 



1411 13Hix. 



1412 1 Cauac. 



1413 2 Kan. 



1414 3Muluc. 



1415 4Hix. 



1434 lOMuluc. 



1435 11 Hix. 



1436 12 Cauac. 



1437 13 Kan. 



1438 1 Muluc. 



1439 2 Hix. 



" El punto de apoy o de que se valen para acomodar los Ahau Katunes & los afios de la era Cristiana 

 y contar los periodos y siglos que en ella han pasadc, y entender y saber concordar los anos que citan 

 los indies en sus historias con los que corresponden & los de dicha era, es el aBo de 1392, el cual segun 

 todos los manuscritos, y algunos de ellos dpoyiindose en el testimonio de D. Cosme de Burgos escritor y 

 conquistador de esta peninsula cuyos escritos se han perdido, fu6 el referido ano, en el cual cay6 7 Cauac 

 y di6 priuciijio eu se seguudi; dia el 8 Ahau; y de este como de un truuco so ordenan todos los que 

 anteci'dicrou j'Bucedieron segun el orden nunierico que guardan y va espuesto : y copio con este concuer- 

 dan todas las sfSries que so hallan en los manuscritos, es necesario creerlo como incontrovertible." 



