Numbers amounting to millions accompany this series in the usual way. Two
of these are on page 58, viz:--1,426,360 and 1,386,580; but with the sign
of the sixth day, which is important here, between them. Below these
numbers, however, are two month dates:--first the normal date IV Ahau 8
Cumhu and, if I have correctly restored the effaced number before the month
sign, which in its turn is indistinct, the second is XIII Muluc 2 Zac,
which would fall in the year VIII Muluc. The encircled numbers also occur
here. They are set down beside the lower number of seven figures. We find
here a red 12 with a black 1 inserted, below this a black 7 and below this
again, enclosed in a red band, a black 11, which I regard as also
representing the value of a red number. We shall find a similar instance
among the serpent numerals. Then we have here 1. 7. 11. = 511 and 12. 11. =
251. But 511 = 260 + 251 and 251 is the interval between XIII Muluc and IV
Ahau.
With the day XIII Muluc and the interval 9 between IV Ahau and XIII Muluc,
numbers for XIII Muluc have been formed amounting to millions, which,
however, have been suppressed in the Manuscript, just as they were on page
31 where, in like manner, numbers were first formed for day XIII Akbal.
I assume that to begin with, 76 Tonalamatls (= 19,760) were added to this 9
and then 228 Tonalamatls (= 59,280), the 228 being = 3 × 76 and the 59,280
including 76 revolutions of Mars.
The result in one case was 19,769 and in the other 59,289. If the 12
Ahau-Katuns, which are specified as 1,366,560 on page 24b be added here, we
have the following numbers:--
1,386,329 = XIII Muluc 2 Mol (3 Muluc),
1,425,849 = XIII Muluc 2 Zip (12 Muluc),
and if the two encircled numbers of the Manuscript:--251 and 511 be added,
the sums are 1,386,580 and 1,426,360, _i.e._, the two large numbers of the
Manuscript.
The dates corresponding to these numbers are as follows:--
1,386,580 = IV Ahau 13 Muan (12 Muluc),
1,426,360 = IV Ahau 8 Muan (4 Ix).
If we compare the two numbers with the normal date, the curious result
follows that:--
1) 1,386,580 - 1,366,560 = 20,020.
This number is equal to 55 × 364, including therefore the ritual year of
364 days.
2) 1,426,360 - 1,366,560 = 59,800.
This number is five times 11,960 days, which is assumed to be the time in
which the lunar and Mercury revolutions accord. This 59,800 was found once
before on page 24 as the suppressed difference between 68,900 and 9,100.
Thus the separate sections (of the book) are very closely connected.
If the two large numbers be compared with one another their difference will
be found to be 39,780. This is equal first to 51 Mars revolutions of 780
days, and second to 4420 × 9, _i.e._, a multiple of the interval between IV
Ahau and XIII Muluc.
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