2. B is walking with the atlatl in his hand, and armed with javelins.
Hieroglyph 5, Manik, denotes the chase, but has a prefix, which often seems
to have the meaning of 20. 2 is the elongated head _q_ with the prefix of
the east belonging to the Kan years. 4 is a Moan sign (c) with the
leaf-shaped prefix. Does this perhaps denote the slaying of game in the
forest? It is remarkable that B's feet are hidden, as if he were walking in
sand or in a bog.
3. B is walking, carrying a large stick like that for tilling the field, as
on pages 38b and 39b, and he bears a carrying-frame; there are footprints
below him. Hieroglyph 2 is the compound of the signs for south and east, 4
(_r_) may denote rain, and 5 is two elongated heads with an unknown prefix.
4. B, is seated on astronomical signs as on page 37c. The copal pouch is
hanging from his neck and he is brandishing his hatchet. Sign 2 is _b_, 4
is _a_ and 5 is _r_, but all three signs have unusual prefixes; the first
of these prefixes appears again in the tenth group, 41 days later.
5. B is seated on a head, probably that of D, which, however, is peculiar
owing to the ornaments resembling bunches of grapes in place of both the
eye and the ear (compare pages 39c and 41a). I do not venture to decide
what he holds in his hand nor what are the other objects which he carries.
Sign 2 is _r_ with a prefix, 4 is Imix perhaps with a knife as a prefix, 5
is the skeleton which sometimes belongs to the lightning beast, but also to
the 14th month; its prefix is unknown.
6. B is seated on a support, which contains two cross-bones, down to which
he points with his right hand, while his left hand holds the hatchet on his
knee. Sign 2 is the crouching naked personage, with the cross _b_ prefixed,
4 is the elongated head with a prefixed Yax, and 5 is Kan with a vessel as
a prefix (instead of Imix) from which steam or froth is rising. The day is
the 234th of the year, _i.e._, the end of a week of 18 × 13 days.
7. B is sitting on a tree at the root of which his own head appears
(compare with this the representations on pages 31c, 33c, and especially
40a, and also 41b and 42b). The second sign is Yax with a prefix; 4 is Kin
within which there is a 1, as is several times the case, for example, on
pages 61 and 69. The fifth sign is still a mystery to me. The day here is V
Manik. Do the hieroglyphs suggest that the interval from the day IX Kan,
which gives the name to the year, to V Manik is exactly the same as that
from the normal date IV Ahau to the true starting-point of our passage, the
day XIII Akbal? Both intervals are 243.
8. B is seated in a house, on the roof, wall and floor of which are several
Caban signs, just as on page 30a; he seems to be pointing forward. Sign 2
is Caban with a prefix, the 4th and also the 5th is Kan with two unusual
prefixes.
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