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
As it may be supposed that using the same numeral to any five days of
the twenty in this way will produce a similar result, let us test it by
an example. For this purpose we select the same column of our foregoing
table, No. V--that with the number 1 prefixed--Cib, Ahau, Kan, Lamat,
Eb, but in place of Lamat we insert Cimi. Hunting out the years as
heretofore we find them to be as follows:
1 _Cib._ 1 _Ahau._ 1 _Kan._ 1 _Cimi._ 1 _Eb._
Years 10 Cauac. 13 Cauac. 9 Cauac. 7 Cauac. 1 Cauac.
Years 2 Kan[TN-9] 11 Kan. 1 Kan. 12 Kan. 6 Kan.
Years 7 Muluc. 3 Muluc. 12 Muluc. 10 Muluc. 11 Muluc.
Years 12 Ix. 8 Ix. 4 Ix. 2 Ix. 9 Ix.
If we try to locate these years in an Ahau in Table XVII (Study
Manuscript Troano p. 44), we shall find it impossible to do so, nor can
we locate them in any table that can be made which has either
twenty-four or twenty years in an Ahau, while on the other hand the
twenty years obtained by using a column of the table from the Codex
Peresianus can be located in some one of the Ahaues obtained by any
division of the Grand Cycle into consecutive groups of twenty-four years
that can be made. It would require too much space to prove this
assertion, but any one who doubts its correctness can test it.
As the extract we have given from the Codex Peresianus relates only to
one of the four groups of days--that on the right of the
quadrilateral--I will supply in the following tables, Nos. VII, VIII,
and IX, the arrangement of the groups of the other three sides; adding
the other (Table VI), also, so as to bring the four together in the
order of the sides of the quadrilateral, commencing with the line on the
right, next the upper one, and so on.
While this is undoubtedly the order in which they are to be taken; which
is the proper one to commence with? is a question yet to be discussed.
TABLE VI.
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.
TABLE VII.
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