. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. the said quadrants, partly by their glyphs,and partly by the dots connecting the glyphs. In the quadrant containing the cardinal point of #, figure 1, arerecorded the days from 1 Imix (1 I) to 13 Chicchan (13 V), that is, thewhole first quarter of the tonalamatl, the days beginning at the inneileft-hand corner and following one another over the outer left-hand SELER] THE MEXICAN CHRONOLOGY 29 corner and the outer right-hand corner as far as the inner right-handcorner; and in the same manner in the quadrant following in
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. the said quadrants, partly by their glyphs,and partly by the dots connecting the glyphs. In the quadrant containing the cardinal point of #, figure 1, arerecorded the days from 1 Imix (1 I) to 13 Chicchan (13 V), that is, thewhole first quarter of the tonalamatl, the days beginning at the inneileft-hand corner and following one another over the outer left-hand SELER] THE MEXICAN CHRONOLOGY 29 corner and the outer right-hand corner as far as the inner right-handcorner; and in the same manner in the quadrant following in thedirection opposite to the course of the hands of a clock, in which thecardinal point J, figure 1, is written, are recorded the days whichform the second quarter of the tonalamatl; and again in the thirdquadrant, which contains the glyph c, figure 1, is the third quarter;and in the last quadrant, with the glyph d, figure 1, the last quarterof the tonalamatl. Since we know that the four quarters of thetonalamatl, beginning with 1 I. 1 VI. 1 XI, and 1 XVI, were respec-. 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 h and I this element is combined withanother, which also occurs in the glyph of the month name Yax 30 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [ (*, same figure), and which, as comparison with other glyphs shows,denotes green tree (yax). In a, figure 1, the element kin i*combined with the glyph of the twentieth day sign, which is inMaya called Ahau. Ahau, abbreviated ah, means the lord, thek
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