120 



MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA 



or 12 x 2920. To be sure the scribe made a slight error in 

 one place, writing a 5 for an 8 but this is caught up by 

 the day signs 9 Ahau, 4 Ahau, 7 Ahau, 12 Ahau, etc., 

 that fall at regular intervals of 2920 days. 



From section 3, the calculation jumps to section 1 

 where the numbers in the original are partly destroyed. 

 They have, however, been restored with perfect assur- 

 ance since the days in all instances are 1 Ahau and there- 

 fore must be separated by multiples of 260 days. The 

 number in Gl has been restored as 5-5-8-0 or 37,960 or 

 13x2920. It contains 260 an even number of times 

 and therefore every successive period of 37,960 days 



Fig. 45. Mayan Ceremony as represented in the 

 Dresden Codex. The figure at the left beats a drum 

 while the one on the right plays a flageolet. The sound 

 is indicated by scrolls. The head on the pyramid is that 

 of the Maize God and it rests upon the sign caban, meaning 

 earth. 



begins with the same day, 1 Ahau. It also equals 

 13x8x365 days or 104 years and 13x5x584 days or 

 sixty-five revolutions of Venus. 



The three numbers to the left in Fl, El, and Dl are 

 respectively 2, 3, and 4 times 37,960. The last number, 

 151,840 days is therefore equal to 416 years or exactly 8 

 calendar rounds of 18,980 days. 



