MORLEY— MAYA SUPPLEMENTARY SERIES 



TABLE IX 



Kin-sign as Head-dress of an Old Man 



Kin-sign without a Head 



NO. 



NO. 



NO. 



I 



8 



49 

 50 



3 

 6 



10 



5i 



15 



16 



54 



22 



31 



55 



37 



44 



57 



52 



45 



59 



53 



47 

 48 



74 



75 

 80 



This variant is about twice as common as that where the kin-sign 

 appears without a head of any kind. (See the third column above.) 

 A__nqt infrequent characteristic is a superfix composed of three shells 



The true character of this superfix appears clearly in Nos. 



6, 15, and 48, but the details have been lost in Nos. 1, 49, 51, and 52. x 

 That Glyph G is hardly more than a sign for the kin or day appears 

 very clearly in Nos. 8 and 55. Indeed the former is practically 

 identical with the usual head variant for this period, having the kin 

 element in the head, and as an ear-ornament also, a frontlet, large 

 bulging eye and square irid, filed front tooth and wing element. 



This would appear to indicate that in Glyph G we are dealing 

 with a generalized sign for the day. 2 It will be noted that it usually 

 occurs just after the day of the Initial Series terminal date, and possi- 

 bly may mean "this is the count of the days" or something similar. 

 In that case Glyph F might mean "this (next) is the count of the 

 moons." These two glyphs indeed may epitomize the whole meaning 

 of the Initial and Supplementary Series as diurnal and lunar counts 

 respectively. 



MISCELLANEOUS GLYPHS 



Toward the end of the Supplementary Series, as already remarked, 

 the regularity of the glyph sequence breaks down. This irregularity, 

 however, is confined to two places, one just before Glyph F count- 

 ing from right to left, i.e., between Glyphs F and E, and the other just 



1 Care should be taken not to mistake this shell-like superfix for the bar-and-dot numeral 3. 



2 In a beautiful example of Glyph G from the Hieroglyphic Stairway at Naranjo, not figured 

 in the accompanying plates, the right half of the kin element of this glyph is cross-hatched, while 

 the left half is plain. This might be an attempt to indicate night and day, i.e., the 24-hour day, the 

 true unit of the Maya calendar. 



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