The fourth woman carries the maize deity E. 13 is his sign and the food hieroglyphs, Imix-Kan in 16, agree with it. The fifth woman seems to carry the somewhat indistinct form of D, if this may be inferred from the Ahau of the 17th sign. 20 is the universal sign a. This ends the six Tonalamatls, which are represented in what I have called the section of the burden-bearing women. Five other Tonalamatls follow, which again suggest the idea of conception, which we met once before on pages 13c-14c. Page 19b. X 29 XIII 23 X Ik Ix Cimi Ezanab Oc The most frequent sign in the five Tonalamatls, which I have grouped together, is the cross _b_, which plays the most important part in all the Tonalamatls, excepting the third, which differs from the rest also in other respects. It is essentially the sign for union, referring in the case of the stars to their conjunction and here to sexual union. In this Tonalamatl we see the cross in hieroglyphs 1 and 5, the sign for woman in 2 and 6, and their determinatives in 3 and 7. The first woman has a deity facing her who is devoid of all characteristic marks, and sign 4 is also nothing but the universal a. The second woman whose eyes are closed, sits facing A, whose hieroglyph is in 8. Pages 19b--20b. VI 28 VIII 24 VI Cib Lamat Ahau Eb Kan. The arrangement of this Tonalamatl is very similar to that of the preceding. Hieroglyphs 1 and 5 are again the cross, and 2 and 6 the signs for woman. The first picture is wanting; hieroglyph 3 with the number 7 as a prefix denotes a deity with whom I am not familiar. The same sign is found on page 50, left, middle; in 4 the usual head _q_ is added. Beside the woman in the second group--not facing her--is the serpent deity H, again, as on pages 11c and 12b, with the nose-peg resembling a flower. His sign is 7 to which in 8 the familiar Ahau is again added. Page 20b. II 20 IX 19 II 13 II Cauac Chuen Akbal Men Manik. The hieroglyphs stand thus:-- 1 2 5 9 3 4 6 10 7 11 8 12. The subject now passes into the province of astronomy. This is already proved by sign 1, which represents the clouds, between which the sun or moon is usually pictured; the sun is probably omitted here merely owing to limited space. Sign 3 suggests the storm-god K (compare pages 7a and 47 left) to which in 2 the Ahau might be appropriately added, inasmuch as it rules the year here under consideration as on pages 25b to 26c. On account of the Ben-Ik sign I see in 4 one of the months of 28 days as a more exact determination of time. Below the Ben-Ik a head is represented with eyes apparently closed, and this head is repeated in 6 and 10, though, probably for lack of space, without the Ben-Ik. In each of the three places a sign is used as an affix which might readily be the year sign, contracted laterally.