The hieroglyphs are so nearly obliterated that we can no longer distinguish
a common sign. There were in all six signs for the first picture, of which
the first two are above the day-signs, while the figures from the second to
the fifth have only four signs each, as follows:--
1 2 5 7 8 11 12 15 16 19 20
3 4 6 9 10 13 14 17 18 21 22.
All that can be distinguished here is that the 4th and 13th have the same
cross _b_ and that 6 and 10 probably contain the same head.
Each of the five pictures contains a woman sitting. In the first
representation she sits opposite a male figure, who bends down to her with
his bird-head, which we have already seen on page 13c. In the other four
pictures the woman is holding the figure of a god on her lap. I do not
recognize the god in the first picture on page 20. In the second and third
pictures he is related to A or the Moan and the first figure on page 21 may
represent the god D. These can only be new-born children represented by the
gods under whose signs they were born. It should also be noted that the
second woman on page 20 has a serpent on her head and the third a bird. The
bird's head resembles that on page 16c.
Pages 21a--22a.
The Cimi and Eb of the second column have changed places in the Manuscript.
Instead of the X there is an erroneous 2 and there is no initial VII.
VII VII 3 X 2 XII 7 VI 9 II 3 V 2 VII
Oc Ahau
Cib Cimi
Ik Eb
Lamat Ezanab
Ix Kan.
We have here a Tonalamatl consisting of 10 × 26 days, and the 26 days are
subdivided into six parts. I have just assumed that the 2 is wrong and the
initial VII is wanting over the first column, yet the 2 followed by the
laterally elongated head _q_ might here, perhaps, be explained in some
manner as the sign of the day VII Oc.
Apart from this sign which occupies an entirely exceptional position, we
have here 24 hieroglyphs, _i.e._, 4 for each of the six groups.
The fourth sign in the first five groups is in each case a Chuen combined
with the cross _b_ and the suffix, which seems to be a knife, and also with
a numeral, which, however, is not recognizable in the first group; in the
second it is a 3, in the third a 7, in the fourth a 5 and in the fifth a 3.
What can these numbers mean? 3 + 7 + 5 + 3 = 18, and Chuen with the meaning
of 20 (especially in the inscriptions) would be 18 × 20 = 360.
In the fourth place of the sixth group there is a compound character, the
main part of which (top, right) seems to be the sign for the thirteenth
month, Mac, and which may also, as we shall see on page 24, denote the
entire Tonalamatl. It is again compounded with a Chuen, an uplifted arm and
a kind of suffix, and hence might denote the end of a Tonalamatl.
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