VI. 37a and 65a agree, _i.e._, after 4 × 91 days = a year. The sign
contains a human figure stretching both arms aloft. The passing of a year
was likewise indicated in III, but a year coming 52 days later than this.
VII. 10a and 31a agree, _i.e._, after 3 × 91 days. The sign is composed of
the crouching figure prefixed to the cross, which we also find in 12b, 35a
and 65b; it is prefixed to a different hieroglyph in 30a. In 38b, 52b and
59b (58 in the Manuscript) we see bird-like heads resembling the Bacab
sign. We should expect to find a familiar sign in 45, which is drawn
between these, but a Moan appears there instead. These signs seem to
indicate the end of the Bacab period. Does the Moan sign here, too, suggest
the end of the year?
In 38a, 52a and 59a we again see an Imix, and I consider it a corroboration
of my theory that all the four signs of groups 38 and 39 are repeated in 52
and 53 after 2 × 91 days.
I believe a further corroboration is the fact that though many of these
hieroglyphs have no connection with these periods of 7 × 13, _i.e._, with
the divisions of the ritual year, they do correspond with the usual
divisions of the Tonalamatl, _i.e._, 4 × 13 and 5 × 13 days.
After 4 × 13 or a multiple of it the signs recur in 20b, 24b, 40b, 44b-12b,
48b, 56b-16b, 32b, 64b-26b, 50b-10a, 30a-37a, 65a-15b, 51b-11b and 47b.
As examples of 5 × 13 I would mention 3b, 63b-10a, 20a, 30a-5b, 50b-24b,
29b-35b, 65b-15b, 20b, 40b.
Finally, I must mention two more hieroglyphs, which are limited almost
entirely to these pages:--
[Illustration]
In the first sign, which occurred on page 10a, I thought I recognized the
lunar month of 28 days. It occurs in this section in connection with the
third picture on page 56, and besides in the following groups of
hieroglyphs:--16b, 32b and 64b, always combined with a Yax. The regularity
of the intervals is striking, but as yet I can neither explain that, nor
the crouching personage (Mercury?) in the 10th, 20th and 30th groups and
again in the next, the 31st.
The second sign is found _only_ on these pages and here not less than
eleven times, possibly with the addition of the effaced sign in 6b and 27b
which may have been the same hieroglyph. The eleven places in which it
occurs are as follows:--3b, 15b, 17b, 23b, 24b, 29b, 40b, 44b, 49a, 51b and
63b. Two different prefixes are added to it; one in the first two and the
last two places and also in the last but two joined with Kin, and the other
in the six middle places. Of the eleven groups, 17 and 24, 44 and 51 are 7
groups apart, 3 and 17, 15 and 29, 49 and 63 are 14 groups apart, 23 and 44
are 21 groups apart, and hence 23 and 51 are separated by 28 groups or 1
year. Group 40 alone is not concerned with these intervals of seven or
multiples of seven.
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