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sign cuhiipqua, seven ; and the rest in like man- 
ner. This predilection for periodical series, and 
the existence of a cycle of sixty years, which is 
equal to the seven hundred and forty sunas con- 
tained in the cycle of twenty years of the priests, 
appear to reveal the Tartarian origin of the na- 
tions of the new continent. 
As the rural year was reckoned to be com- 
posed of twelve sunas, the xeques added, un- 
known to the people, at the end of the third 
year, a thirteenth month, analogous to the jun 
of the Chinese'^'. The table of the Muysca 
moons we are about to lay down, proves, that, by 
the employment of the periodical series, this 
intercalary suna was governed, in the first in- 
diction, by cuhupqua. It is this sign, which w^as 
called the deaf moon, because it did not count 
in the fourth series, which, without the use of a 
complementary term, should have commenced, 
not by siihuza, but by cuhupqua. This mode 
of intercalation, which is found in the north of 
India, and according to which a lunar embolis- 
mic year of three hundred and eighty-three days 
twenty-one hours follows two common lunar years 
of three hundred fifty-four days eight hours, is 
that which the Athenians followed before Meton ; 
it is the dieteride, in which was intercalated, 
after the month Posideon, a Uoaei^euv Sevrepoq^ 
^ Souciet and Gaubil, Obserr. Matliem. tom. 1, p. 183. 
