. Ancient civilizations of Mexico and Central America. Indians of Mexico; Indians of Central America. .142 MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA ber of complete lunations which is never in excess of six; Glyph D gives the number of days in the current lunation when these are 19 or less and Glyph E, which has the basic value of 20, finishes the count. Fig. 50. Bepresentations of the Moon: a, sun and moon hiero- glyphs; 1), moon from a ilcelestial band"; c, moon hieroglyph used for 20 in codices. of a current lunation. There is some evidence that the Mayan lunar calendar in the fifth century A. D. had
. Ancient civilizations of Mexico and Central America. Indians of Mexico; Indians of Central America. .142 MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA ber of complete lunations which is never in excess of six; Glyph D gives the number of days in the current lunation when these are 19 or less and Glyph E, which has the basic value of 20, finishes the count. Fig. 50. Bepresentations of the Moon: a, sun and moon hiero- glyphs; 1), moon from a ilcelestial band"; c, moon hieroglyph used for 20 in codices. of a current lunation. There is some evidence that the Mayan lunar calendar in the fifth century A. D. had receded about four days from the true positions of the moon, the count being made from the new or conjunctional phase. When, however, a new or full. 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 : American Museum of Natural History
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