. An introduction to the study of the Maya hieroglyphs . Secondary-series date 7 Ahau 18 1 The dates 9 Ahau 18 Yax and 2 Ahau 13 Chen on Stete 1 and 2, respectively, atQuen Santo, are purposely excluded from this statement. Quen Santo is in the highlands ot Guatemala(see pi. 1) and is well to the south ot the Usamacintla region. It rose to prominence probably after thecollapse of the great southern cities and is to be considered as inaugurating a new order of things, if notindeed a new civiUzation. 2 See Maler, 1908 a: IV, No. 1, pi. 9, glyphs E2, F2, A3, and A4. The stu


. An introduction to the study of the Maya hieroglyphs . Secondary-series date 7 Ahau 18 1 The dates 9 Ahau 18 Yax and 2 Ahau 13 Chen on Stete 1 and 2, respectively, atQuen Santo, are purposely excluded from this statement. Quen Santo is in the highlands ot Guatemala(see pi. 1) and is well to the south ot the Usamacintla region. It rose to prominence probably after thecollapse of the great southern cities and is to be considered as inaugurating a new order of things, if notindeed a new civiUzation. 2 See Maler, 1908 a: IV, No. 1, pi. 9, glyphs E2, F2, A3, and A4. The student win note that the lower periods (the tun, uinal, and kin signs) are omitted and consequentlyare to be considered as having the coefficient 0. 232 BUBEAU OF AMEKICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 57 Zip, there recorded, closed Cycle 10. The same fact could have beendetermined by adding the Secondary-series number m glyph 6a tothe Initial-series number of the starting point 4 Ahau 13 Yax in glyphs 1-3: 4 Ahau 13 Yax 5.() 10. 7 Ahau 18 Zip. Fig. 81. The Initial Series, Secondary Series, and Period-ending date on Altar S, Copan. The end of Cycle 10 in glyph 8a is merely redundancy. The writerbelieves that 4 Ahau 13 Yax indicates the present time ofAltar S rather than 7 Ahau 18 Zip, and that consequentlythe latter date was prophetic in character, as was the same dateon Zoomorph G at Quirigua. One reason whica renders this prob- BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 57 PLATE 23


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