. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . hi-onological Calendar; but his reason forbeginning the series with 4 Ahau 13 Yax will be referred to farther on. In order to make clear what is stated below in regard to the formsand details of the symbols of tlie great cycle, katun, etc., a number ofthe tyi^es of the great-cycle symbol are sliown in figure 162; of the ahauin figure 163; of the katun in figure 164; and of the cycle in figure 165. That this symbol—seveial varieties of which are sho^vn in figure163 (also seen in figure 160, and
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . hi-onological Calendar; but his reason forbeginning the series with 4 Ahau 13 Yax will be referred to farther on. In order to make clear what is stated below in regard to the formsand details of the symbols of tlie great cycle, katun, etc., a number ofthe tyi^es of the great-cycle symbol are sliown in figure 162; of the ahauin figure 163; of the katun in figure 164; and of the cycle in figure 165. That this symbol—seveial varieties of which are sho^vn in figure163 (also seen in figure 160, and as initials in plates LXXI-LXXIII,Lxxv, LXXVI, and lxxviii, and figures 146, 147, 151, and 158)—isbuilt up from, or based on, the 360-day or ahau symbol of the ordi-nary form, as shown in number 9, figure 163, is evident. The katunsymbol of the ordinary type {k, figure 164), lias the same body formas the ahau symbol, but there is added a superfix consisting of acomb-like figure on each side, with a middle character usually resem-bling a Cauac svnibol. 266 MAYAN CALENDAR SYSTEMS [ETH. ANN. 22. Fig. 162. Types of gieat cycle symbols from the inscriptions. 1, Stela E. Copan, Maudslay, i)art3, plate XLix: 2, Stela I, Copan, Maudslay, part 3, plate Lxv; 3, Stela D, yuirigua, west side,Maudslay, part 12, plate xxvi; 4, Stela D. Quirigua, east side, Maudslay, part 12. plate xxv;5, Stela J, Quirigua, Maudslay, part 12, plate XLVi; 6, Stela K, Quirigua, Maudslay, part 12, plateXLix; 7, Monolithic Animal B, Quirigua, Maudslay, part 11, plate xiv; 8 and 9, Stela C, Copan,Maudslay, part 3. plate xli (both specimens on this plate t; 10, Stela A, Copan, Maudslay, part xxx; 11,Altars,Copan, Maudslay,part 4, plate xciv: 12. Stela N, Copan, east side, Mauds-lay, part 4. plate Lxxix; 13. Stela N, Copan, west side. Maudslay. part 4. plate Lxxix, glirph 14,counting from the top; 14, supposed great-cycle symbol irom the Dresden codex, plate XLiii. GREAT CYCLE AND CYCLE SYMBOLS 267 This
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