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THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COPAN. 
matter of fact, however, its actual occurrence is very much less even than this, and 
it almost seems as though there had been a deliberate attempt to refrain from 
recording this particular month in the inscriptions. 
Says Pio Pérez in speaking of these 5 days: 
“Some call them u yail kin, or u yatl haab, which may be translated, the sorrowful 
and laborious days or part of the year; for they [the Maya] believed that in them occurred 
sudden deaths and pestilences, and that they were diseased by poisonous animals, or 
devoured by wild beasts, fearing that if they went into the field to their labors, some tree 
would pierce them, or some other kind of misfortune happen to them.”! 
This belief alone may have been sufficient to account for the observed rarity 
with which Uayeb appears in the inscriptions, very much less in fact than any other 
division of the haab, even discounting its shorter length. 
In the following table the first and third columns give the names of the monu- 
ments on which the day and month-signs will be found, and the second and fourth 
columns give their exact positions on the monuments after the method of glyph 
designation described in Chapter I, page 50. 
List of the Day-signs in the Copan Inscriptions. 









Day- Day- 
den Monument. Glyph. agad 
Ahau..| Altar K’ One end (?) ~ Ahau.. 
Altar 28). 2 - pcoeeene H2 
Scelarasivs7 iss eae ee Lower left corner. 
Stela 24. us.te coe BS. 
Stelai i672. 208 sere c3b. 
Btela Ley ueck ene ten BO. 
Inscribed peccary skull.| At. 
Stelao. ch sack eoeeeee BS. 
Stela7. ..-atctnentee BSa. 
Stela’ Bivedar tema c2, Lh 
Stela Be) Secs c13,1.h 
Stela Foo; so, ae ae DIO, u. h 
Stela dc. 1,0) eee p12, l.h 
AltariofStelai hese FID. 
Stela -Pca> tae ASa 
Stela 12.0 7. see BS. 
Stela Id co. acteeee eee cio. 
Stela 3325s eee BSD. 
Stela 12. eee csb. 
Stela 36,20 c:ges ae Aga 
Stela. 16. fsagcene ees ce 
Altar ofistela 19 s.r eos 
Stela 23559 oe ELD 
Stela‘2445. 0 cee G7 
ptela It. skeen B8. 
Stela-29 5 oa Next to last glyph. 
Stele 3). ongeset eee BOD. | 
Collar of Stela 3....... Pe * ee 
Stelast ies sd. Meee (oh 
Stela' a, Shs scores p6a. 
East Altar of Stelas. ..| Ka. 
West Altar of Stela5. ..| N2a, I. h. 
West Altar of Stelag ..| o1d. 
Altatiofotela tee e sae Id. 
Stola:] os See ae ee BSD. 
Stela Le Loree eee Cla. 
Altar.of Stela I; 2.4.4.5 cb. 
Altaz.ot Stela 17-53, Ed. 
Stela Ov. ese en tes B4D. 

Monument. 
Stela }to.cs <2 seanerent 
Stéla Je. asses 
Stela’ J eee 
Stela’ 6.44.5. ieee 
A ledirs Wea fen cetera 
Hieroglyphic Stairway. 
Hieroglyphic Stairway. . 
Hieroglyphic Stairway. . 
Hieroglyphic Stairway. . 
Hieroglyphic Stairway. . 
Hieroglyphic Stairway. . 
Serla Ms. sci eens 
‘Templestt@ nas oo ose 
‘Lemple 3% 6,i2/ocnnaces 
Temple 214.5... 0es-- 
"Lemplt 21a. es on aces 
A. 
Step D, vb. 
Step O, pd. 
Step R, Ba. 
Step S, M. 
Date 21, B 
Date 22, cb. 
B2b. 
ob. 
Rev. stand West. Court} a4. 
Rey. stand West. Court] gb. 
1See Stephens, 1843, vol. 1, p. 437, and Landa, 1864, p. 384. 
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