Next we repeatedly meet here, as we did in the middle groups, with the Moan
sign and that of the screech-owl belonging with it; the former is the 6th
sign on page 46 and page 50, and the latter is the 3d and 7th on page 47,
the 7th on page 49 and finally the 2nd and 4th on page 50.
The moon is represented in the 5th sign on page 48 and in the 3d on page 49
and indistinctly in the 4th on page 48.
The cardinal points occur here several times. The 3d and 7th signs on page
46 have at least the superfix of the south as a prefix; the 8th on page 47
apparently has the east, but with the familiar cross-hatched sign prefixed;
the 7th on page 48 plainly has the east, the 3d on page 50 the prefix of
the north prefixed to the cross _b_, and the 8th on page 50 the west, thus
approximating the usual order and distribution.
Of the gods I note the Akbal head, perhaps intended for D, in the 4th place
on page 46, also in the 3d on page 48, and lastly in the 5th on page 49,
the first two times with the Ben-Ik superfix, and in the 2nd place on page
47 the sign for A.
In the 4th place on page 47 we have the tortoise as the sign of the month
Kayab or of the summer solstice, in the 6th on page 47 the lightning-beast
or the month Kankin with a Ben-Ik superfix; the beast itself is pictured
below, and the same hieroglyph also with the Ben-Ik superfix is the 8th
sign on page 49.
It is hard to decide whether the sign 4 on page 49 represents the god F
owing to the line through the eye, or a female by reason of the prefixed
lock.
Sign 7 on page 50 represents the deity whose sign began the series of
twenty gods on the left of page 46 and which we have already met with
several times in the centre of the right side. We recognize the prefix as
having occurred in the middle group of the same page.
Sign 6 on page 48 is a Kin combined with an unfamiliar sign. Sign 5 on page
50 contains a Kin with a Yax and probably with 18 as a superfix (as on
pages 27 and 46 middle).
Sign 6 on page 49 contains a crouching person with a 4 which is probably
out of place here and to be regarded as a correction of the 7 above it.
Sign 5 on page 46 contains a Mac denoting the thirteenth Uinal or a
Tonalamatl, and having the sign _p_ as a superfix and a double Ik as a
prefix.
Sign 3 on page 46 merits special attention, because it contains the
duplication of the sign, which, at the end of the first part of the
Manuscript, pages 29-41, always began the groups of hieroglyphs on the
lower third of the pages.
I do not understand the second hieroglyph on page 46 and the 5th on page
47.
In conclusion I would call attention to the fact that the last hieroglyph
on page 48 is very peculiar. As on pages 51, 52, 61 and 69 it has the
meaning of 18,980 days and consists of an Imix with a comprehensive
superfix; its prefix is a 7.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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