Notes on Certain Maya and Mexican Manuscripts: Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 3-66Thomas, Cyrus
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Notes on Certain Maya and Mexican Manuscripts: Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 3-66
Thomas, Cyrus
Calendar -- Mexico; Maya calendar
The only real objection I can see to my explanation of the arrangement
of the days in this circle is the fact that it necessitates the
transposition of two characters, but it is not unreasonable to suppose
that the artist may have made this one mistake.
Fortunately we find on Plates 18 and 19 of the Codex Peresianus[1][TN-7]
what appears to be a complete confirmation of the theory here advanced.
This is a kind of tabular arrangement of certain days, with accompanying
numbers, as shown in our Fig. 3, which is an exact copy of those
portions of Plates 18 and 19 of the Codex Peresianus, to which I refer.
I also give in Table V the names of the days and the numbers
corresponding with the symbols and characters of Fig. 3. In this table
the erased days and obliterated numerals are restored, these being in
italics to distinguish them from those on the plate.
TABLE V.
_10. Kan._ 8. Cib. 6. Lamat. 4. Ahau. 2. Eb.
_10. Lamat._ 8. Ahau. 6. Eb. 4. Kan. 2. Cib.
_10. Eb._ 8. Kan. 6. Cib. 4. Lamat. 2. Ahau.
_10. Cib._ 8. Lamat. 6. Ahau. 4. Eb. 2. Kan.
_10. Ahau._ 8. Eb. 6. Kan. 4. Cib. 2. Lamat.
13. _Kan._ _11. Cib._ 9. Lamat. 7. Ahau. 5. Eb.
13. _Lamat._ _11. Ahau._ 9. Eb. 7. Kan. 5. Cib.
13. _Eb._ _11. Kan._ 9. Cib. 7. Lamat. 5. Ahau.
13. _Cib._ _11. Lamat._ 9. Ahau. 7. Eb. 5. Kan.
13. _Ahau._ _11. Eb._ 9. Kan. 7. Cib. 5. Lamat.
3. Kan. 1. _Cib._ _12. Lamat._
3. Lamat. 1. _Ahau._ _12. Eb._
3. Eb. 1. _Kan._ _12. Cib._
3. Cib. 1. _Lamat._ _12. Ahau._
3. Ahau. 1. _Eb._ _12. Kan._
An inspection of this table shows us that the five days repeated in each
column are the same as those on the right of the quadrilateral of our
scheme (Fig. 2), and are exactly in the order obtained by arranging the
days of the month in four columns in the manner heretofore shown. (See
column 4, Table IV.)
If I am correct in my supposition, we then have one clue to, if not a
full explanation of, the method of obtaining the day columns in the
Manuscript Troano.
[Illustration: FIG. 3.--Copy from Plates 18 and 19, Codex Peresianus.]
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