. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Fig. 39—Symbol for 5,206. Vatican codex 373S,plate 10. 948 NUMERAL s^YSTEMS [ determined, their application and use in tlio connections in whichthey aie found has not been ascertained. It is apparent from the data presented that tiit^ Aztec or Mexican i^imk. miw Fig. 40—Symbol for 19,600. Vatican codex 3738, plate 123. tribes by whom the codices were made were not so well advanced inmathematics and time count, or in the symbolic designation of num-bers, the Mayan tribes. THE MYSTI
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Fig. 39—Symbol for 5,206. Vatican codex 373S,plate 10. 948 NUMERAL s^YSTEMS [ determined, their application and use in tlio connections in whichthey aie found has not been ascertained. It is apparent from the data presented that tiit^ Aztec or Mexican i^imk. miw Fig. 40—Symbol for 19,600. Vatican codex 3738, plate 123. tribes by whom the codices were made were not so well advanced inmathematics and time count, or in the symbolic designation of num-bers, the Mayan tribes. THE MYSTIC AND CEREMONIAL USE OF NUMBERS In taking up this liranch of the subject we enter upon a lield wherethe evidence must be drawn XQvy largely from the early (chiefly Span-ish) authorities; their testimony is, however, corroborated to someextent by the codices and inscriptions. As there is no intention ofentering at this time upon a general discussion of the subject of themystic and ceremonial use of numbers among the Mexican and CentralAmerican tribes, but simply of presenting the data so far as they mayseem to have relation to the subject treated in this paper, this partwill be brief. As 2 is a number connected in some way with almost every actionof life, and necessarily referred to in almost every ceremonial andmystic rite, it is difficult to determine wher
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