The remaining 18 signs are in the main destroyed. In the second of the
fourth group we recognize the lock of hair denoting a woman, in the third
of the second group the superfix suggesting the south, which we find above
the Cimi sign, for example on page 13b. Lastly, the other third signs are
in the third group Imix-Kan, in the fourth group the head _q_, in the fifth
the bird c and in the sixth a Manik sign with prefix and superfix
resembling the sign _i_; in a few places (24, 39a, 53a, 56b, 58b, 61a, 61c,
68c) the prefix might have the meaning of 20.
Since the intention was to close this section on the next page, the space
had to be used as economically as possible, and instead of the six pictures
to be expected, there is only one and that is the first. It is a woman in
whom I observe nothing characteristic except that she has a kind of cloak,
which has fallen down over the lower part of her body, and who therefore
remains unexplained.
Pages 22a--23a.
II II II II 2 IV 8 XII 7 VI 10 III 12 II
Men Cib Caban Ezanab
Chuen Eb Ben Ix
Manik Lamat Muluc Oc
Akbal Kan Chicchan Cimi
The Tonalamatl is no doubt to be read in this way after the correction of a
few inaccuracies in the Manuscript.
The 20 days, all of which occur again here as on pages 16a-17a, should be
read from the right top to the left bottom, since they form but one series.
As a matter of fact Ezanab is distant 19 days from the future Caban, but 39
days distant from the desired weekday of the same name (see my
"Erläuterungen," p. 24). Thus we have here a period of 20 × 39 days = 780,
_i.e._, a three-fold Tonalamatl. The three Tonalamatls represented on the
pages between the preceding passage (pages 16a-17a), where all the 20 days
appear, and this, are of three _different_ kinds (5 × 52, 4 × 65, and 10 ×
26). This in itself is very remarkable. Furthermore a fourth kind of
Tonalamatl seems to be introduced here, which embraces, as it were, these
three Tonalamatls.
The hieroglyphs, which are mostly destroyed, were arranged in groups of
four for each subdivision, in the following order:--
II II II II
1 2 5 9 13 17
3 4 6 10 14 18
7 11 15 19
8 12 16 20.
Of the above the third hieroglyph of each group, _i.e._, 7, 11, 15, 19
(probably also 3) is always the same and is the sign of D, the moon and
night-god. In detail we should expect to find five pictures here, but owing
to lack of space only the first of these is given. It represents a deity
with a Kan sign in its hand and a serpent on its head, who is probably E,
and he is falling down here in exactly the same manner as the four deities
on page 15 at the beginning of this section.
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