Signs 1-4, which are mostly destroyed, can hardly denote anything other
than the four quarters of the globe, at least we can still recognize in 4
the sign for the east, which has also the fourth place in pages 46-50. They
stand thus together five times in the middle of the left side of pages
46-50, which pertain to this subject. 5 to 9 are the sign for Venus
repeated 5 times, probably denoting the four parts of its revolution as on
pages 46-50 and also the revolution as a whole. In connection with this
first appearance of the Venus sign, I would mention that the same
hieroglyph also occurs in the Tro-Cort., _e.g._, Cort. 25c, though this
Manuscript contains little else that is astronomical, yet it also has the
rectangular heavenly shields.
10. This is a well-known form of the Moan sign. In the Globus, Volume LXV,
1894, I sought to make it appear probable that the Moan also denoted the
Pleiades, with whose disappearance and reappearance the beginning of the
years seems to be connected. Likewise on page 50, where the 2920-period
ends, the Venus and Moan signs appear at the top on the right-hand side.
11 and 12 are the same sign, being that of the 13th Uinal (Mac), with which
260 days of the year end, and hence this sign is also used as the sign of
the Tonalamatl. The repetition seems to show, that not until the 73
Tonalamatls of the period of 18,980 days are doubled--thus obtaining the
number 37,960 of such importance here--are the sun and Venus periods
brought into unison (with the whole system).
13. The Kin sign (sun, day) with the superfix, which in all probability
expresses conjunction, union, and which, in my opinion, we also see on page
51, combined with Kin and Imix, as the sign for 18,980 days, is used here
after the two Tonalamatls to denote the doubling of this period.
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