1 2 | 5 6 9 10 13 14 | 17 18 21 22 25 26
3 4 | 7 8 11 12 15 16 | 19 20 23 24 27 28.
I will first consider those signs, which are repeated and by means of which
the sections seem to be brought into connection with one another. But I
shall attend in detail to those hieroglyphs which contain characteristic
references to each picture, when I discuss the latter.
The first place both among the pictures and among the hieroglyphs again
belongs unquestionably to B. He is plainly designated in the 10th, 17th,
21st and 26th hieroglyphs, but, for an unknown reason, C's sign is joined
to B's in the 16th, probably also in the 6th and perhaps in the 9th, and in
20 and 28 C's sign forms an integral part of a hieroglyph. Now in
discussing the great Tonalamatl, pages 4a-10a, I attempted to make it
appear probable that C belongs to the eighth day (Chuen) and in that case
the Chuen sign in the thirteenth hieroglyph may be probably set down here.
Further, in discussing pages 25 to 28, I expressed the conjecture that this
Chuen sign might simply mean eight days, if we begin with Kan as the first
day, for which proceeding there is some warrant in the "Dresdensis." Now,
in hieroglyphs 8 and 24 we find an 8 inscribed; in hieroglyph 8 it is
joined to an Imix, exactly as on page 39c; on page 65a it is joined to Kin,
and on 67a and 68a to a hand. Is it possible that here also the 8 is
intended as a sign for Chuen = C?
Then the familiar Kin-Akbal sign (day and night) is in the fourth place as
well as in the eleventh and nineteenth.
The other signs which appear but once, I will discuss in connection with
each of the seven pictures:--
1. A serpent in the water, with B emerging from its head, exactly as on
pages 36a, Tro. 26 and Cort. 10.
The third sign, that of the serpent-deity H, refers to the serpent. The
first sign is the one which I think may be Caban-Muluc, while the second,
owing to its indistinctness, eludes interpretation.
2. This also represents a deity sitting in the water, whom we are probably
safe in calling H, for the top of his head changes into a serpent, ending,
however, in a bird's bill holding a fish. The deity holds up both hands.
The union of serpent and bird should be noted in connection with the fourth
picture. The deity is represented in the fifth sign; the sixth, seventh and
eighth signs have already been discussed.
3. B is traversing the water in a boat, exactly as on pages 29c, 40a and c,
and 43c. Here, however, there is a person beside him (probably a woman)
whom, from the ninth hieroglyph we recognize as the deity E, unless this
sign is C's. In 12 we see with Kan a sign which may suggest the usual
hieroglyph denoting a year.
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