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words ata, hosa., mica^ and their graphic signs^ 
arranged in three periodical series, were made 
use of to denote the thirty days of a lunation ; so 
that mica^ like the quartidi of the French re- 
publican calendar, was the fourth, fourteenth, 
and twenty-fourth day of the month. The same 
custom was observed among the Greeks ; who 
added however a couple of words, to distinguish 
whether the number belonged to the month he- 
glnning or the middle of the 
month, (xvim fj^ocaovyroq , or to the month ending 
fjivivoq cp^/vovTOi;. As the small festivals (feirce), or 
the market days, returned every three days, each, 
during the course of a Muysca month, was 
governed by a different sign ; for the two perio- 
dical series of three and ten terms, that of the 
weeks and the stma, have no common divisor, 
and can coincide only after three times ten 
days. According to the following table, in 
which the small festivals are distinguished by 
italic characters, cuhupqua (two ears) falls in 
the last quarter; muyhica (two eyes shut) and 
hisca (junction of two figures; nuptials of the 
Moon, chia, and of the Sun, sua) correspond to 
the period of the conjunction ; mica (two eyes 
open) denotes the first quarter ; and iihchihica 
(an ear) the full Moon. The relation we here 
find between the thing and the hieroglyphic, be- 
tween the phases of the Moon and the signs of 
the lunar days, evidently prove, that these signs, 
