. Ancient civilizations of Mexico and Central America. Indians of Mexico; Indians of Central America. 98 MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA hook of the days, has never been satisfactorily explained. It is a permutation system with two. Fig. 37. The Twenty Day Signs of the Mayan Month. The first example in each case is taken from the inscriptions and the second from the codices. factors, 13 and 20. The former is a series of numbers (1-13) and the latter a series of twenty names as follows:— 1. Imix 6. Cimi 11. Chuen 16. Cib 2. Ik 7. Manik 12. Eb 17. Caban 3. Akbal 8. Lamat 13. Ben 18. Eznab 4. Kan 9. M
. Ancient civilizations of Mexico and Central America. Indians of Mexico; Indians of Central America. 98 MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA hook of the days, has never been satisfactorily explained. It is a permutation system with two. Fig. 37. The Twenty Day Signs of the Mayan Month. The first example in each case is taken from the inscriptions and the second from the codices. factors, 13 and 20. The former is a series of numbers (1-13) and the latter a series of twenty names as follows:— 1. Imix 6. Cimi 11. Chuen 16. Cib 2. Ik 7. Manik 12. Eb 17. Caban 3. Akbal 8. Lamat 13. Ben 18. Eznab 4. Kan 9. Muluc 14. Ix 19. Cauac 5. Chicchan 10. Oc 15. Men 20. Ahau These two series revolve upon each other like two wheels, one with thirteen and the other with twenty cogs. The smaller wheel of numbers makes twenty revolutions while the larger wheel of days is making thirteen revolu- tions, and after this the number cog and name cog with which the experiment began are again in combination. Thus, a day with the same number and the same name recurs every 13x20 or 260 days. This 260 day cycle corresponds to no natural time period and is an invention pure and simple. It is the most fundamental feature of the Mayan time count and of the time counts of other nations in Mexico and Central America. We may perhaps assume that the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Spinden, Herbert Joseph, 1879-1967. New York
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