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of thirty-seven sunas, was divided into four small 
cycles ; the first of which closed with hisca, the 
second with ubchihica, the third with quihicha 
hkca, and the fourth with gueta. These small 
cycles represented the four seasons of the great 
year. Each of them contained one hundred and 
eighty-five moons, which corresponded with 
fifteen Chinese and Thibetan years, and conse- 
quently with the real indictions observed in the 
time of Constantine. In this division by sixty 
and by fifteen the calendar of the Muyscas ap- 
proaches much nearer that of the people of east- 
ern Asia, than the calendar of the Mexicans, 
who had cycles of four times thirteen or fifty-two 
years. As each rural year of twelve and thir- 
teen sunas was denoted by one of the ten hiero- 
glyphics represented in the fourth figure, and 
the series of ten and fifteen terms has a common 
divisor, the indictions were constantly ter- 
minated by the two signs of conjunction and op- 
position, We shall not stop here to show how 
the hieroglyphic of the year, and the indication 
of the cycle of sixty years to which that year be- 
longed, might serve to regulate the chronology, 
as we have already explained it in treating of 
the relations of the calendars of Mexico, Thibet, 
and Japan. 
The beginning of each indiction was marked 
by a sacrifice, the barbarous ceremonies of which, 
from the little we know, appear all of them to 
