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APPENDIX. 



with any pyramid of the American Continent. The sides are never equal, 

 are frequently composed of curves and straight lines, and in no instance 

 form a sharp apex. 



VESTIGIA PHALLIC^ RELIGIONIS PROUT QUIBUSDAM MONUMENTIS AMERICANIS 



INDICANTUR. — (^Vid. tom. 1., pag. 181.) 

 H^c monumenta ex undecim Phallis constant, omnibus plus minusve 

 fractis, undique dispersis, atque solo semiobrutis, duorum circiter vel trium 

 pedum mensuram habentibus. Non ea nosmetipsi reperimus neque illis 

 hanc Fhallicam naturam attribuimus; nobis autem, has regiones ante per- 

 errantibus, haec eadem monumenta Indi ostenderunt, quodam nomine ap- 

 pellantes lingua ipsorum eandem vim habente, ac supra dedimus. Clui- 

 bus auditis, hasc Fhallicae religionis, his etiam in terris, vestigia putanda 

 esse tunc primum judicavimus. Monumenta attamen de quibus hue us- 

 que locuti sumus, non, ut bene sciunt eruditi, libidinem denotant, sed po- 

 tius, quod memoria dignissimum, nostra etiam continente vis genitalis cul- 

 tum, omnibus psene antiquis Europce Asiasque nationibus communem, per 

 symbola nota olim viguisse. Cluam autem cognationem hie Phallorum 

 cultus his populis cum Americas aboriginibus indicare videatur, non nos- 

 trum est, qui visa tantum vel audita litteris mandamus, his paginis ex- 

 ponere. 



ANCIENT CHRONOLOGY OF YUCATAN; OR, A TRUE EXPOSITION OF THE METHOD 



USED BY THE INDIANS FOR COMPUTING TIME. — Translated from the Manu- 

 script of Don Juan Pio Perez, Gefe Politico of Peto, Yucatan. 



\°. Origin of the Period o/ 13 Days (triadecateridas). 



The inhabitants of this peninsula, which, at the time of the arrival of 

 the Spaniards, was called Mayapan, and by its first inhabitants or settlers 

 Chacnouitan, divided time by calculating it almost in the same manner as 

 their ancestors the Tulteques, differing only in the particular arrangement 

 of their great ages (siglos). 



The period of 13 days, resulting from their first chronological combina- 

 tions, afterward became their sacred number, to which, introducing it in- 

 geniously in their reckonings, they made all those divisions subordinate 

 which they devised to adjust their calendar to the solar course ; so that the 

 days, years, and ages were counted by periods of thirteen numbers. 



It is very probable that the Indians, before they had corrected their com- 

 putation, used the lunations (neomenias) to regulate the annual course of 

 the sun, counting (senalando) 26 days for each lunation ; which is a little 

 more or less than the time during which the moon is seen above the hori- 

 zon in each of its revolutions ; dividing this period into two of 13 days, 

 which served them as weeks, giving to the first the first 13 days during 



