3. B is sitting in water, the hatchet raised in his right hand and his face
turned upward.
The 3d hieroglyph is again Imix and the 4th a compound of Ik and
Muluc:--wind and clouds.
4. B is seated on a reproduction of his own head or D's, beating a drum
with his hand.
The 3d hieroglyph denotes the serpent-god H with the number 3 as a prefix.
The 4th hieroglyph is a Chuen with the sign for the south prefixed,--at any
rate the upper part of that sign.
5. B is standing in the pouring rain and looking backward.
The 3d sign here is a Caban apparently in a vessel. Following this in 4 is
the hieroglyph which I have proposed to interpret as the sign for
_beginning_ (Globus, Vol. LXVI, page 79). This sign occurs again in groups
7, 12, 15, 17 and 19, and must therefore be connected with the principal
idea embodied in this Tonalamatl.
6. B with folded arms is sitting in a house.
Aside from the usual leaflike prefix, the third sign is composed of two
parts. The upper part looks like a plaited mat and suggests that the word
for the first month of the year (Pop) is expressed by mat. The lower part
is the sign, which occurs frequently especially on pages 25-28, and which
very much resembles the familiar sign for a year of 360 days. We shall meet
it again in the continuation of this Tonalamatl on pages 36 and 38. The
three passages refer to the 74th, 139th, and 204th days of the Tonalamatl,
and hence are 65 days apart.
The 4th sign is the cross _b_, with possibly the sign of the east as a
prefix.
7. B is seated on the cross _b_, which is here undoubtedly meant for an
astronomical sign. He holds a Kan sign in his hand and there is an Ahau
sign on his back.
The naked crouching personage, pointing upward, should have especial
mention here. The same figure recurs above as a prefix to the 4th
hieroglyph. We have already seen it in the 39th hieroglyph on page 24, and
shall meet it with especial frequency in the second part of the Manuscript.
It is placed sometimes, as in this case, _before_ a sign, sometimes _after_
a sign and again two of these figures are placed back to back as on page
22c, and one of them is even placed upside down before another sign, where
it seemed to me to be a sign for Mercury ("Zur Entzifferung VII," p. 11).
This figure is represented independently only on the right of page 58. In
the passage under present consideration this personage appears again on
page 38. The two figures are connected one with the 85th and the other with
the 215th day, and are, therefore, divided by exactly half a Tonalamatl or
130 days. Here we find it as a prefix of the supposed sign for _beginning_
of which mention was made in discussing the 5th group. The 3d sign is the
same astronomical one, which we saw below under B. It might refer to the
Moan and to the change of the year, and thus indicate that a Mercury
revolution was coincident here with the beginning of the solar year.
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