In my "Tagegöttern der Mayas" (Globus LXXIII, 10) and above in my
discussion of the great Tonalamatl under pages 4a-10a, I have assigned the
day Chuen to C, and Muluc to K, _i.e._, the first to the dark north and the
latter to the wind, which are both under consideration here. In fact, we
find the Chuen sign in the fifth place of the fourth group with the same
prefix that C has in the second group. The Muluc sign, however, seems to
occur three times:--1st, group 1, sign 6, where it may be joined to the
month Mol belonging here; 2nd, group 3, sign 5, joined to the Akbal, which
also belongs here; 3d, group 4, sign 4, with a usual prefix. In the second
group it may be included in the very similar month sign of Mol. Four
hieroglyphs remain:--1st, Akbal in group 1, sign 5, hence probably denoting
the darker time of the year in general; 2nd, A in 2, sign 5; 3d, E in 2,
sign 6; _i.e._, probably referring to the death of the grain (I do not know
to what extent this expression may be used in relation to the Maya
country); 4th, Kan-Imix in 3, sign 6, perhaps expressing the hope of new
harvests.
This finishes the middle sections of the pages of the first part of the
Manuscript, and we must now turn back again to page 29 in order to examine
the lower sections.
Pages 29c--30c.
III 16 VI 16 IX 16 XII 17 III
Ix
Cauac
Kan
Muluc.
Here is a Tonalamatl of four quarters, 4 × 65.
In the Manuscript 16 is again erroneously set down for 17 and the III
following it is omitted. The initial day is exactly the same III Ix, as in
section 29b above it, to which in other respects the passage now under
consideration shows a great likeness, since the four familiar animals occur
here as well as there. But in spite of beginning in the same way the days
here are different ones, being the four regents of the year, as on page 9b.
The four parts are grouped together by the sign, which always occupies the
first place in each part; I have denoted this sign by _f_, and I think it
must have a very general significance, since from pages 29c to 40c it
always begins the groups. The connection between the four parts is further
shown by the four cardinal points in the second place:--the north in the
first group, the west in the second, the south in the third and the east in
the fourth. In the third place these cardinal points are again indicated by
their usual abbreviations; the east is erroneously set down in the second
group. These abbreviations are here invariably joined to the head of C as
the representative of the north, the first of the cardinal points occurring
in this passage; the others revolve about the north pole.
As B's sign always occurs in the fourth place, there is nothing further to
be said concerning the hieroglyphs. We now come to the pictures:--
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