It is doubtless of special significance that the sign of the first of the
twenty deities on the left side of page 46 is repeated on the right as the
tenth sign on all the pages (on page 47 also in the eleventh place where it
has a prefixed 3). It seems as if this sign, which is otherwise quite
unfamiliar, might be connected with the sun and regarded as a contrast to
the Venus sign in the sixth place.
Also the 9th deity of the left side, the 1st of page 48, reappears in the
4th place on page 49; the 10th deity, the 2nd on page 48, in the 12th on
page 49; the 15th deity, the 3d on page 49, in the 9th on page 46 and the
8th on page 49 (as already stated); the 18th, the 2nd on page 50, in the
5th on page 46.
The 2nd of these deities is suggested by the 8th on page 47, perhaps also
by the 5th on page 50; the 3d and 13th seem to be A and to recur in the 3d
place on page 46.
On the other hand C, the god who, as I believe I have proved, is connected
with the day-sign Chuen, does not appear on the left side. Now the 4th sign
on page 46 contains a Chuen, which in the 12th sign on page 48 is probably
combined with a Muluc, in the 12th on page 49 with Yax and a prefixed 6,
and in the 4th sign on page 50 with C's sign, _i.e._, as a rule Chuen
stands in the 4th place in a line.
As the gods E and K already mentioned also appear on pages 25-28 in
connection with the change of the year, so we find the tiger on the top of
page 26, and I believe this animal occurs again in the 7th sign on page 47.
Of the day-signs I take the 4th on page 47 to be Kan, the 7th on page 48 to
be Caban, and the next sign, the 8th on page 48, to be Muluc. Now if we
take into consideration the fact, that of the three periods of the month
signs on the left side of these pages, the 18th (the middle) line is the
most important, owing to its ending, 18 Kayab, alone, if for no other
reason; furthermore, that in this middle period the second Venus year
always ends with a Kan year and the third with a Muluc year, one is
naturally led to suppose that the illegible sign 12 on page 46 is an Ix
(for thus the first Venus year ends) and that the days Cauac and Kan might
have been found among the obliterated day-signs on pages 49 and 50.
I shall examine the remaining signs in the order of the pages.
Sign 8 on page 46 is the same compound of Yax and Kin having as a superfix
the sign assumed by me to be the numeral 18, which occurs again in the
lower group on page 50 and also on page 27.
In the number 11 prefixed to the fifth sign on page 47, the 1 seems to be
indistinct and may not belong here. If we correctly assume that this number
is 10, then the sign is the same as the 34th on page 24, to the discussion
of which I beg to refer my readers.
Sign 8 on page 47 is an indistinct compound, the first part of which I
supposed above to be the sign of the second deity on page 46.
I cannot explain 4 and 5 on page 48.
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