. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . 19th katnn is reached. The date is 5 Ahau LS Mol [glyph 34]. As thatbegins the 1st ahau, the number of .score days indicated must be IS. Two unin-telligible glyphs follow, succeeded by what I believe to be this reading: 3 cycles,8 katuns, and 19 ahaus, a reckoning embracing 26 calendar rounds and extending360 8-score days into the 13th cycle, to 1 Ahau 13 Yax. the beginning of a 360-bissextile count and of a katun also. It is somewhat difBcult to understand these statements, bat I willtry to e
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . 19th katnn is reached. The date is 5 Ahau LS Mol [glyph 34]. As thatbegins the 1st ahau, the number of .score days indicated must be IS. Two unin-telligible glyphs follow, succeeded by what I believe to be this reading: 3 cycles,8 katuns, and 19 ahaus, a reckoning embracing 26 calendar rounds and extending360 8-score days into the 13th cycle, to 1 Ahau 13 Yax. the beginning of a 360-bissextile count and of a katun also. It is somewhat difBcult to understand these statements, bat I willtry to explain them, as I desire to offer one or two criticisms. The actual interval between 1 Ahau 3Zip, the terminal date of the initialseries, and 5 Ahau 13 Mol (if thefirst following occurrence of thisdate be assumed as the one in-tended) will be 18,360 days, or 2katuns, 11 ahaus. This will bringus to 5 Ahau 13 Mol, the first dayof ahau number 1 in the lilth katunof cycle ?> (as numbered by Good-man)—the one now under consider-ation. What he means by IS-scoredavs is that the count extends 360. IG. 15:^. Part of inscriptiou on the east .sideof Stela P, Qulrigua. Maudslay, part 12,plate XL. days into the 19th katun, bringing lis to the commencement of thesecond ahau, which, according to his method of numbering, is 1. For some unexplained reason, Goodman makes no mention of thenumeral series between the terminal date of the initial series 1 Ahau 228 MAYAN CALENDAR SYSTEMS [eth. 3 Zip and 5 Ahau Mol. , uuless I am wrong in my iiiteipreta-tion, is found in glyphs 21, 22, and 23 (figure 153), as numbered bjMaudslay. The prefixed numerals with one exception (that prefixedto the ahau) are of the ordinarj type. However, as the exception,which is a face numeral, shows the hand across the lower jaw we mustassume, according to what has been shown, that it denotes full countor nauglit (0). With this assumption, the series appear to be 3 days,11 chuens, 0 ahaus, and 19 katu
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