Front matter (continued 6)

Nothing on page 69 corresponds to the signs in 16ab and 17ab of page 61. On the contrary, the initial date of the serpent IX Kan 12 Kayab, which on page 61 does not appear until 18ab is set down in 16ab. On the other hand on page 69 the four signs 17ab and 18ab are added, 17a being a sign as yet unknown with 13 as a superfix. I feel inclined, though with many misgivings, to treat 17ab like 5a and b of page 61 and to assign to them the value of an Ahau-Katun of 113,880 days. For then they would denote the 13th Ahau-Katun, which extends from the day 1,366,560 (page 24) to 1,480,440 and which contains the two large numbers on page 70, left, top, while the two lower numbers in the first and second columns of that page belong to the 12th Ahau-Katun, and the two in the third and fourth belong to the 14th Ahau-Katun. The 13th would be the present and the 12th and 14th the past and future; but all this could only be confirmed by further research. At all events, the signs for beginning in 17b and for end in 18a refer to past and future. Unfortunately, 18b is entirely effaced.

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Besides the picture, this page contains only 15 hieroglyphs in three horizontal rows. Only about six of these signs are decipherable. The second, third and fourth of the lower line are three different heads; the middle is the familiar head of god B, the one on the left has the Akbal eye and the abbreviated sign for the south, which is repeated in the affix; the head on the right has the sign for the west as a prefix. Very little more is to be said of the other hieroglyphs than that the second and third of the second line have the sign for the east; the first of the second line, however, was the one which we found on pages 71-73 as the constant companion of the Bacabs and which suggested the wind. The last sign of the second line must have contained that for north, so that the four cardinal points all came together here.

The picture begins below these signs. Astronomical figures, apparently Venus, Mars, Mercury and Jupiter, end in the fore part of a crocodile. Below the astronomical signs are the signs for the sun and moon. Streams of water are falling from the jaws of the crocodile and also from the sun and moon. And a fourth stream is being poured from a jug by the old woman with the tiger claws, and with the serpent on her head, whom we saw on pages 39, 43 and 67 engaged in the same occupation. Cross-bones are represented on her skirt as the symbol of death. The sign of the ninth day, Eb, appears on the jug; this is the day which was avoided in the Tonalamatls, for not a single Tonalamatl begins with Eb in the Dresdensis, nor does one begin with the week-day IX; does Bolon meaning nine suggest Balam, the jaguar?

Still further down on the page sits a black god, who may be the same as the god on pages 7a and 16b, with a bird of prey on his head. There are two arrows in his right hand and his left hand holds what may be an atlatl, but it is very much longer than is usually the case; at the same time it can be regarded as a spear.

This page can denote nothing but the end of the world, for which the serpent numbers have prepared the way. Perhaps what looks like a zero above the sign Eb in the stream of water may likewise point to this calamity.

INDEX.

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The numbers in the first column refer to the pages of the Manuscript, and those in the second column to the pages of the Commentary.

FIRST PART.

1a 55 16a 90 42a-44a 146

2a 55 16a-17a 90 45a 148

3a 59 18a-19a 92 29b-30b 150

4a-10a 61 19a-21a 93 30b-31b 151

4b-5ba 67 21a-22a 93 31b-35b 152

10a-12a 69 22a-23a 95 35b-37b 156

12a 69 16b-17b 96 38b-41b 159

5b-6ba 70 17b-18b 97 41b-43b 162

6b-7ba 71 16c-17c 98 43b-44b 164

8ba 72 17c-18c 99 44b-45b 165

9ba 73 18c-19c 100 29c-30c 167

10b 74 19c-20c 100 30c-33c 168

10b-11b 75 19b 101 33c-39c 170

12b 76 19b-20b 101 40c-41c 176

4c-5ca 77 20b 102 42c-45c 178

5c-6ca 78 21b 103

6c-7ca 79 21c-22c 104 SECOND PART.

8ca 80 22c-23c 105

9ca 81 22b 107 46-50a 182

10c-11c 82 23b 108 51a-52a 197

12c 83 24a 110 51-58a 200

13a 84 25-28a 120 58-59a 215

13b-14b 85 29a-30a 132 60a 219

13c-14c 86 30a-31a 133 61-64a 222

14a-15a 85 31a-32a 133 65-69a 235

15a 88 32a-39a 138 69-73a 245

15b-16b 88 40a-41a 144 74a 265

15c 89

GLYPHS REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT.

CARDINAL POINTS.

Notes

[1] The Manuscript has incorrectly 8 and 18.

[2] = 20 Chen.

[3] The sign denotes the end of the 360-day year.

[4] = 20 Zotz.

[5] Compare the Peresianus, page 20.