. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. 5)0©. Fig. 50. Maya hieroglyphs of the bat god. beast has torn off and holds in his hand in a and 6, while in c thebeast devours the torn-out heart and the blood. It is worth noticingthat in a and c the bat is drawn with the round cap and featherheaddress of the wind god, while in &, in addition to the torn-offhead, he grasps and stands upon a fire snake. I now turn to the documents of the Maya races. The Mayas, in thestrict sense, the inhabitants of Yucatan, designated one of their 18uinals, that is, periods of 20 day
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. 5)0©. Fig. 50. Maya hieroglyphs of the bat god. beast has torn off and holds in his hand in a and 6, while in c thebeast devours the torn-out heart and the blood. It is worth noticingthat in a and c the bat is drawn with the round cap and featherheaddress of the wind god, while in &, in addition to the torn-offhead, he grasps and stands upon a fire snake. I now turn to the documents of the Maya races. The Mayas, in thestrict sense, the inhabitants of Yucatan, designated one of their 18uinals, that is, periods of 20 days, by the name of the bat-zotz (or zoo,according to Yucatec transcription). From the Kelaciones of BishopLanda and the Dresden manuscript I reproduce in b, figure 50, thepicture of the bat as the designation of this period of time, which fellin the latter half of our September. That this designation was alsoknown to the other Maya tribes we learn from the date (cr figure 50),compounded of the date of a day (8 Ahau) and a uinal date (the 8thof Zotz), which I copy from one o
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