19. B is walking armed with hatchet and shield. He holds a serpent in his
hand as on page 40c, but here with the head downward. Hieroglyphs 1 and 2
are destroyed, 3 is the cross _b_ with a suffix and the horse-shoe prefix
_e_, known to us from pages 5 and 6. 5 is Imix combined with Chuen and
probably with Yax, and 6 is E's head.
20. This is the old red woman with the tiger claws, whom we saw on pages
39b and 43b and shall see again on page 74; she reinforces the water
falling from the planets by pouring a stream from her jug. The first three
hieroglyphs are effaced, 4 is the elongated head _q_, 5 is Kin-Akbal, 6, as
in group 16, is again the enigmatical 8 with a hand pointing to the right.
21. B is walking and bears pouch, spear and shield. Hieroglyph 1 is a hand
holding the sign of the rising Moan, just as in 15 a hand holds the head of
K; 2 is again K, whose sign is probably effaced several times in the last
groups of this series. 3 is E with the sign of the east; 5 is compounded of
Imix, Chuen and _b_, and 6 is Kin with the sign of the north. Here the day
of the normal date is reached, but this may be significant only for the
year 9 Ix.
22. We come now to the representation of the change of the year, which we
have already mentioned. Hieroglyph 1 is curious, consisting of the moon
with a stripe running around it like a strap; 3 and 5 are not clear to me
and are doubtless closely connected with one another; 3 also contains a
trace of K and is perhaps a determinative of the same. 6 is again E, and
suggests the tilling of the fields.
23. This picture as well as the first two hieroglyphs have already been
discussed above. The crouching personage, repeated again in 3 as a prefix
to the cross _b_, is curious. 5 is again E and 6 is Imix, referring to
grain and honey.
24. The picture and three of the hieroglyphs plainly correspond. The grain
deity E holds food and drink in his hand. Rain is pouring from the planets,
and the wind-beast plunges down, as on pages 44 and 45. Sign 3 is E's
hieroglyph, 6 is Kan-Imix and 2 is the wind-beast. B is superfluously added
in 4 and the same is true of the cross _b_ in 1, while Kin-Akbal in 5 seems
to fit almost everywhere. Pages 29a, 30a and 45c show the lightning-beast
in a different form.
25. As is usually the case, rain is pouring from the stars and below them
are the sun and moon as before. This time C is sitting in the rain, clad in
the gala mantle and holding Kan. Hieroglyphs 1, 2 and 4, the latter
apparently representing C, are effaced. The other three are enigmatical, 3
is again Xul with a prefixed 9, 5 a Caban, but with an unintelligible
prefix, and 6 is again the mysterious 8.
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