Here we again find the regular red numerals (Roman in my transcription of
the text), which were wanting in the last three Tonalamatls. That they were
not added until after the black script and drawings were completed, is
evident in several passages of our Manuscript and also in this one, where
they have been faintly indicated in black by the scribe (or corrector). The
absence of red numbers in the passages 17b-18b and 16c-17c is an evidence
that I was right in proceeding directly from the former to the latter.
Of the 12 hieroglyphs, 2, 6 and 10 have again the form which we found on
pages 16b-17b, and which seems to refer to a carrying-frame; compare,
however, the explanation of pages 25-28 below. The women themselves are
designated by hieroglyphs 3, 8 and 12. The first woman carries the god A
and hieroglyphs 1 and 4 are his regular signs. The second woman has on her
back a Kin sign, above that a Yax, and this combination overtopped by a
cross between two dots also forms hieroglyph 5; compare the upper section
of the same page. That this hieroglyph is nothing else than a designation
of god D follows from hieroglyph 7. Finally the fourth woman carries a
figure, which has a Moan sign for a head and to which hieroglyphs 9 and 11
certainly refer.
Pages 18c--19c.
XIII 32 VI 20 XIII
Ahau
Eb
Kan
Cib
Lamat.
The first woman carries the god A, who is denoted by hieroglyphs 4 and 1,
though somewhat irregularly by the latter. 2 is the carrying-frame and 3
the woman herself.
The second woman has again the Yax-Kin sign on her back as in the preceding
Tonalamatl, and hieroglyph 5 is also a combination of these signs, but here
in 7 we find, not the sign of D, but that of E, to which also the Imix-Kan
in 8 corresponds. 6 is again the carrying-frame, though, as is also the
case in 2, more indistinctly drawn than in the earlier Tonalamatls.
Pages 19c--20c.
XIII 11 XI 11 IX 11 VII 10 IV 9 XIII
Ahau
Eb
Kan
Cib
Lamat.
This is a Tonalamatl divided into five parts, to which 20 hieroglyphs
belong. The hieroglyphs are in the following order:--
1 2 5 6 9 10 13 14 17 18
3 4 7 8 11 12 15 16 19 20.
At places 2, 7 (6 and 7 have changed places), 10, 14 and 18 we find again
the sign which we think means a carrying-frame, while signs 3, 6, 11, 15
and 19 are those of the five women.
The first carries a figure with a Moan head and agreeing with this is the
second death-god F in hieroglyph 1 and his determinative in 4.
The second woman, who is seated, carries the same object regarding which I
am still uncertain, which is carried by the standing woman on page 17a.
This object is denoted by hieroglyph 5 (_w_). Its determinative is probably
8. It may perhaps be a step in the right direction to point out that this
sign suggests the god K.
The third, like the first, has a figure with a Moan head, with which a
female form of A in 12 and hieroglyph 9 accord.
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