. Bulletin. Ethnology. 34 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 28 conjecture is now wholly superfluous. The Dresden manuscript does, indeed, reckon the years precisely as Landa does, that is, beginning with the east, but the years which Landa designates by the dominical letters, Kan, Muluc, Ix, Cauac, are here specified by the initial days Been, Ezanab, Akbal, and i^amat. The chief figure on the first page is a god with a remarkable l^ranching nose, whose principal hieroglyph is a^ figure 3, a hieroglyph which otherwise serves to designate the lightning animal, the heavenly dog darting from the
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 34 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 28 conjecture is now wholly superfluous. The Dresden manuscript does, indeed, reckon the years precisely as Landa does, that is, beginning with the east, but the years which Landa designates by the dominical letters, Kan, Muluc, Ix, Cauac, are here specified by the initial days Been, Ezanab, Akbal, and i^amat. The chief figure on the first page is a god with a remarkable l^ranching nose, whose principal hieroglyph is a^ figure 3, a hieroglyph which otherwise serves to designate the lightning animal, the heavenly dog darting from the clouds. Instead of the latter, e (same figure), that is, the head of Cha(5, appears as the principal hieroglyph in the Dresden codex, page 3. It is therefore obvious that this god is a god of rain and thunder. Landa mentions in the Kan year Bolon Zacab, a name which is not. Fig. 3. Symbols from the Maya codices. known elsewhere. But he also states, and that only of the Kan j^ears, that they are said to be rich in rain. On the second page (26) of the Dresden manuscript the chief figure is a god who has the sign kin written on his e3'ebrow, and whose chief hieroglj'ph, h, figure 3, likewise contains the sign kin. This agrees with Landa's statement, who, in the Muluc j'ears, mentions Kinchahau, the "Lord with the sun face". On the third page the old god is represented, whose chief hieroglyph is e^ figure 3. This again agrees with Landa, who mentions the god Itzamna in the Ix 3^ears. And on the last page (28) of the Dresden manuscript a death god is designated hy the hieroglyph d^ the face with gaping jaws; elsewhere written also in the form of glyph h. This, too, agrees with Landa, who calls the Uac Uiitun ahau of the Cauac years "Lord of six hells". I can not go into further details concerning these deities. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of
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