. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. of my theory. FORSTEMANN] SERIES OF NUMBERS, DRESDEN CODEX 469 All these pictures are joined at the top to those rectangles of whichI have spoken in my Erlauterungen, page 16, and which always con-tain two or three glyphs, that, with much hesitation, I was inclined tointerpret as the symbols of the sun, moon, and planets. No seriouscontradiction of this theory has thus far ensued. As the symbol of Saturn, I indicated in the article mentioned a orb, figure 109: These figures are actually found in all of the nine pic-tur
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. of my theory. FORSTEMANN] SERIES OF NUMBERS, DRESDEN CODEX 469 All these pictures are joined at the top to those rectangles of whichI have spoken in my Erlauterungen, page 16, and which always con-tain two or three glyphs, that, with much hesitation, I was inclined tointerpret as the symbols of the sun, moon, and planets. No seriouscontradiction of this theory has thus far ensued. As the symbol of Saturn, I indicated in the article mentioned a orb, figure 109: These figures are actually found in all of the nine pic-tures with the exception of the first, which has no such rectangle, theplace, therefore, where the zero point is concealed, according to thetrue Maya method. But I go still farther in my bold hypothesis. The time, assignedto Jupiter for its apparent revolution is 397 days. I believe that theMayas adopted 398 days for the period. In the article mentioned Ihave taken to be the symbol of Jupiter: c or d, figure 109. This character occurs in pictures 4, 6, 7, and 9. The numbers. q r s Fig. 109. Glyphs from the Dresden codex. belonging to them, reduced for the revolution of Saturn, are 3,986,6,762, 7,972, and 10,748. But in addition I include, as the zero point,the place where the sign has been suppressed, the picture 3, that is, thenumber 2,776, and I also include picture 10, which is not reached bythe revolution of Saturn and has the number 11,958. If these. numbers are compared with 398, that is, with the appar-ent revolution of Jupiter, then we have the following result: 3—_ ___ 2,776= 7X398—10 4___ ___ 3,986=10X398+ 6 6___ ___ 6,762=17X398— 4 7 7,972—20x398+12 9___ __ _10,748=27X398+ 2 10___ —11, 958=30x398+18 The differences, 10, 6, 4, 12, 2, 18, in comparison with 398, are all sosmall that the numbers, 2,776, etc., might very well have been consid-ered as approximate multiples of the revolution of Jupiter. Let us 470 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 28 compare the f
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