Note 854 — Chapter III

The Maya calendar and astronomical system, as the basis of the Maya chronology, is explained in the version which Perez gave into Spanish of a Maya manuscript (translated into English by Stephens in his Yucatan), and which Valentini has used in his “Katunes of Maya History,” in the Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc., Oct. 1879. On the difficulties of the subject see Brasseur’s Nations Civilisées (ii. ch. 1). Cf. also his Landa, section xxxix., and page 366, from the “Cronologia antigua de Yucatan.” Cf. further, Cyrus Thomas’s MS. Troano, ch. 2, and Powell’s Third Report Bur. of Ethn., pp. xxx and 3; Ancona’s Yucatan, ch. xi.; Bancroft’s Nat. Races, ii. ch. 24, with references; Short, ch. 9; Brinton’s Maya Chronicles, introduction, p. 50.