Note 21 — II. The Mathematical Elements.
Reading edition
A. P. Maudslay: Biologia Centrali-Americana; Archæology, Part II. Text, pp. 40–42 (London, 1890). The character b closely resembles the day-sign chuen. This could readily be chosen to express ikonomatically chun, “the beginning, the first,” and my studies convince me that it repeatedly must be so understood. To this I shall recur on a later page.