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fused and incorrect, of our Ajaus, or great cycles. This incorrectness 

 might arise either from his not understanding the mechanism of their mode 

 of computing, owing to the defective explanation given by the Indians, or 

 from the manuscripts which Boturini had before him being mutilated, or, 

 finally, from the possible fact that the Indians in those provinces had a par- 

 ticular custom of counting by cycles of four indictions, or of 208 years, 

 which, notwithstanding the difference observed in their calculation, and the 

 number of years which it produces, have a great analogy with the Yuca- 

 teco cycles of 312 years. The only thing for which Boturini may be cen- 

 sured, if the Mexicans had no know-ledge of that cycle, and did not use it, 

 was the ascribing of it to them as being in common use for the computa- 

 tion of the greater periods of time. 



The great similarity between the names of the days in the calendar of 

 Oajaca, Chiapas, and Soconusco, and those of the Yucatecos, has been 

 mentioned, and appears clearly by comparing the latter with those of the 

 said provinces, which Veytia has transcribed in his history, chap, xi., at 

 the end. 



Days of the Oajaquian Month. 



Days of the Yucateco Month. 



1. Votan. 



2. Ghanan. 



3. Abagh. 



4. Tox. 



5. Moxic. 



6. Lambat. 



7. Molo or Mulu. 



8. Elah or Elab. 



9. Batz. 



10. Enoh or Enob. 



11. Ben. 



12. Hix. 



13. Tzinkin. 



14. Chabin. 



15. Chue or Chic. 



16. Cbinax. 



17. Cahogh. 



18. Aghual. 



19. Mox. 



20. Ygh. 



I'. Kan. 



2. Chicchan. 



3. duimi. 



4. Manik. 



5. Lamat. 



6. Muluc. 



7. Oc. 



8. Chuen. 



9. Eb. 

 10. Ben. 



11. Hix or Gix. 



12. Men. 



13. auib. 



14. Caban. 



15. Edznab. 



16. Cauac. 



17. Ajau. 



18. Ymix. 



19. Yk. 



20. Akbal. 



Oajacan Ghanan, gh being pronounced as k, is the same with the Yuca- 

 teco Kan or Kanan (yellow); Molo or Mulu, Muluc; Chue, Chuen j 

 Aghual, Akbal or Akual; Ygk, Yk; Lambat, Lamat; Ben and Hix, Be-en 

 and Gix or Hix. These analogies, and the fact that some of the Yucateco 

 names have no known signification, induce the belief that both calendars 

 had a common origin, with only such alterations as the priests made on 

 account of particular events or for other reasons; which alterations our In- 

 dians adopted, leaving the other signs unchanged, either because they 

 were accustomed to them, or because their signification, now forgotten, 

 was then known. 



The Indians of Yucatan had yet another species of cycle ; but as the 

 method followed by them in using it cannot be found, nor any example by 

 which an idea of its nature might be imagined, I shall only copy what is 

 literally said of it in a manuscript, viz.: "There was another number, 

 which they called Ua Katun, and which served them as a key to find the 

 Katunes. According to the order of its march, it falls on the days of the 

 Uayeb jaab, and revolves to the end of certain years : Katunes 13, 9, 5, 1, 

 10, 6, 2, 11,7, 3, 12, 8, 4." 



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