. Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America . hat is, equivalent signs employed to denote in another way that which has alreadybeen expressed—can be applied, but I think that a more thorough knowledge of theglyphs will reveal this class to be quite numerous. The determinative feature is verystrong in the Maya language, as stated in speaking of the numerals, and it is onlyreasonable to suppose that it was equally prominent in their graphic system. Through-out the inscriptions there are many characters that appear to be s
. Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America . hat is, equivalent signs employed to denote in another way that which has alreadybeen expressed—can be applied, but I think that a more thorough knowledge of theglyphs will reveal this class to be quite numerous. The determinative feature is verystrong in the Maya language, as stated in speaking of the numerals, and it is onlyreasonable to suppose that it was equally prominent in their graphic system. Through-out the inscriptions there are many characters that appear to be superfluous—I mean,glyphs that seem to be uselessly attached to series whose import is complete withoutthem, and to which apparently they give no additional meaning. I suspect most ofthese characters to be determinative signs, merely repeating in another fashion whathas just been stated, in order to avoid all possibility of misunderstanding. They maydenote some distinction in quality, class or order, but, if so, I have failed to detect itin any case. I can discover in them nothing but equivalency and The two glyphs here given are equivalents. Each is a symbol for the 120-dayperiod, or week round. The specific number of days is designated in both—in thefirst by the elliptical character for 10 and the double ik sign for 12 multiplied together,making 120; in the second, by the same process, only that 12 is there representedby an animal head. Both glyphs occur frequently in this single state, but occasionally—whether the writer thought the sign required elucidation, or whether the sculptorfound more space at his disposal than the simple form of the symbol would becominglyfill—the yaxkin sign is appended to each of them. The sign for Yaxkin represents120 days, according to the theory I have advanced of the numerical values of themonth symbols. As there is no other conceivable purpose this sign can serve in therelation here shown, I believe it is merely used det
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