558 THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COPAN. 
striking as to make it practically certain that pages 51 to 58 of the Dresden Codex 
are an eclipse calendar, possibly of the sun, possibly of the moon, or possibly even 
of both. 
Through independent investigation Willson came to a similar conclusion about 
these same pages of the Dresden manuscript and in 1916 told the writer he believed 
them to be tables of possible solar eclipses;' and during that and the following year 
Dr. Carl Guthe made the lunar count, especially as presented in these pages of the 
Dresden Codex and in the Supplementary Series at Quirigua, the subject of an ex- 
haustive investigation in connection with work for the doctorate at Harvard Uni- 
versity... He has also assured the writer that these pages of the Dresden manu- 
script can have no other interpretation, although he disagrees with the details of 
Meinshausen’s conclusions. 
- Returning to the Supplementary Series again, the restriction of the coefficients 
of Glyph C tothe numerals I, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 only, can hardly be interpreted under 
the circumstances as indicating other than a similar condition, and it therefore 
appears probable that Glyph C is in some way connected with the eclipse phenom- 
enon, Glyph A showing the number of days in the month, whether 29 or 30, in 
which the accompanying Initial Series falls, and the coumitient of Glyph C, showing 
the position of that month in a group of 5 or 6 months, the length of which was 
determined in some way by the eclipse phenomenon. 
There remains to be explained one more important element of Glyph C, 
namely, No. 4, on page 555, the human heads of varying types. When the writer 
first approached this problem in 1907 he noticed that this head element is occa- 
sionally replaced by another element which looks like an eye, and which 
is the name-glyph of God M.® Subsequently, however, through 
the resemblance of these heads to head-variant numerals, he came to 
regard them as another set of numerical coefficients, of which the sign above was 
the zero, and he thus identified this element in 1916.4. These heads indubitably 
resemble the head-variant numerials, indeed are identical with them, as reference 
to figure 79 will show, 7 and p being clearly the heads for 10, k the head for 7, m the 
head for 4, / the head for 1 or 8, and 1 the head for 6, the last being unmistakable. 
Note the cross element in the eye. 
These resemblances are so close as to indicate the identity of these heads with 
those of the numbers given, but the correct explanation thereof now appears to the 
writer to be more in the line of his first identification of them as signs for specific 
gods than that they are numerical coefficients. 
It has long been suspected that certain numbers were associated with the 
different deities of the Maya Pantheon, 1o with the God of Death (A of the Schell- 
has classification); either 1 or 8 with the Maize god (God E); 4 with the old god, 
possibly Itzamna (God D), 5 with the god of the 5 closing days of the year, Uayeb 
(God N); and 7 with the god with the cruller-like ornament over his nose (perhaps 
God K). 
It now appears to the writer, on the basis of these associations of specific 
head-variant numerals with specific deities, that this element of Glyph C is to be 
explained not as a series of numbers, but as a series of names of deities who presided 
over the corresponding periods, a case in point being the eye element above (see 
figure 79, 7 and 0), which is surely the sign for God M. 

1See Morley, 1916, p. 394. 
The results of this investigation are in course of publication by the Peabody Museum as volume 6, No. 2, in its 
series of archeological and ethnological papers. See Guthe, 1920. 
’Compare Schellhas, 1904, figs. 45 and 46. 
4See Morley, 1916, pp. 380, 381. 
