. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. MEXICAN PAINTING-HUMBI BULLETIN 28 PLATE. )LD1 FRAGMENT I, PART 2 riO; seler] MEXICAN PICTURE WRITINGS FRAGMENT I 135 The Mexicans reckoned 365 days to the year, and I have alreadystated that they divided the year into eighteen periods of 20 dayseach and 5 superfluous days, called nemontemi. These 5 superfluousdays were regarded as unlucky days, as useless, fit for no seriousbusiness. Hence the ancient Mexicans said of them acam pouhqui .This undoubtedly means they were held in no esteem , but accord-ing to the origina
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. MEXICAN PAINTING-HUMBI BULLETIN 28 PLATE. )LD1 FRAGMENT I, PART 2 riO; seler] MEXICAN PICTURE WRITINGS FRAGMENT I 135 The Mexicans reckoned 365 days to the year, and I have alreadystated that they divided the year into eighteen periods of 20 dayseach and 5 superfluous days, called nemontemi. These 5 superfluousdays were regarded as unlucky days, as useless, fit for no seriousbusiness. Hence the ancient Mexicans said of them acam pouhqui .This undoubtedly means they were held in no esteem , but accord-ing to the original meaning of the Avords they may also signify c: theywere not counted . It has therefore been inferred that these 5 dayswere left blank; that the continuous series of signs and numeralswas not applied to them. In an article which I presented to theAnthropologic Society at Berlin in the year 1891,a I pointed out thatthp whole Mexican system of designating the year—namely, that theisecutive days were designated by four signs, each two of which ore 4 days apart—and the Mexican periods of 52 years were intel-lig
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