Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . Fig. 2. Mexican calendar wheel form. tively ascribed to the east, north, west, and south, this double pagefrom the Cortes codex is the strongest proof that Schultz-Sellack andLeon de Rosny were right in referring the hieroglyphs a to d, figure 1,respectively to the east, north, west, and south. In a and figure 1, is contained, in their lower half, an element whichis contained in the month name Yaxkin (k and Z, figure 1) and undoubt-edly denotes the sun (kin), the disk sending out rays of light to thefour cardinal points
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . Fig. 2. Mexican calendar wheel form. tively ascribed to the east, north, west, and south, this double pagefrom the Cortes codex is the strongest proof that Schultz-Sellack andLeon de Rosny were right in referring the hieroglyphs a to d, figure 1,respectively to the east, north, west, and south. In a and figure 1, is contained, in their lower half, an element whichis contained in the month name Yaxkin (k and Z, figure 1) and undoubt-edly denotes the sun (kin), the disk sending out rays of light to thefour cardinal points. In k and I this element is combined withanother, which also occurs in the glyph of the month name Yax 30 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28 same figure), and which, as comparison with other glyphs shows,denotes green tree (yax). In a, figure 1, the element kin i>scombined with the glyph of the twentieth day sign, which is inMaya called Ahau. Ahau, abbreviated ah, means the lord, theking. The word is connected with a verb ah, which means to riseup, to awake, to
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