. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. ginning of the year on the firstday of the period named for the feast Atlcaualco we shall have thefollowing series for the first days of these 19 years: Tecpatl Calli Tochtli Acat 10 U 12 13 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1 2 From our manuscript, which, so far as I know, is the only Mexicanmanuscript that contains a long series of years, or, more exactlyspeaking, dates of days extending over a long series of years, it there-fore follows positively that the Mexicans began their years with thecharacters Acatl, Tecpatl, Ca
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. ginning of the year on the firstday of the period named for the feast Atlcaualco we shall have thefollowing series for the first days of these 19 years: Tecpatl Calli Tochtli Acat 10 U 12 13 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1 2 From our manuscript, which, so far as I know, is the only Mexicanmanuscript that contains a long series of years, or, more exactlyspeaking, dates of days extending over a long series of years, it there-fore follows positively that the Mexicans began their years with thecharacters Acatl, Tecpatl, Calli, and Tochtli, just as the Maya priestswho wrote the Dresden manuscript began their years with the dayscorresponding to the same four characters. This result, which I reached on grounds of a more general na-ture, and which, as we see, is directly obtainable from our manu-script, has been still further confirmed by evidence very recentlypublished. At the last session of the Americanist congress which metat Huelva Mrs. Zelia Nuttall exhibited upon a large chart a recon-. ??:,... V.
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