. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 164. Types of the katun symbol. cycle, assuming, as he does, that 4 Ahati 13 Yax was the first day ofhis grand era. The partienlar process by which he reached the con. Fig. Types of the cycle symbol. elusion that 4 Ahau 13 Yax was the initial day of his first great cycle,and hence of his grand era, is not clear. The choice was apparently THOMAS] BEGINNING OF GOODMANs GRAND ERa 269 arbitrary, tiiough it was necessary tliat the date chosen shouhl malveconnection with 4 Allan S Cumhu a
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 164. Types of the katun symbol. cycle, assuming, as he does, that 4 Ahati 13 Yax was the first day ofhis grand era. The partienlar process by which he reached the con. Fig. Types of the cycle symbol. elusion that 4 Ahau 13 Yax was the initial day of his first great cycle,and hence of his grand era, is not clear. The choice was apparently THOMAS] BEGINNING OF GOODMANs GRAND ERa 269 arbitrary, tiiough it was necessary tliat the date chosen shouhl malveconnection with 4 Allan S Cumhu as the first day of a great explanation of the grand era, on pages 2(3 and 27 of his work,shows the relation of the minor periods to it according to his theoiy,bnt does not give the reason for selecting 4 Ahan 13 Yax as the initialdate. On page 34 he speaks of the date as an important one in theinscriptions, bnt still does not give the reason for making it thebeginning of the grand era. That, any otlier 4 Ahan, whicli would bring 4 Ahau 8 Cunrhu as thefirst day of a great cycle, Mould answer as well as 4 Ahau 13 Yax,even on his theory, is easily shown. As the Mayan time count is anorderly round, a given day recurring at the end of a certain period, itis evi
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