. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. 7 in the heads of the sungod which stand among the initial numerical hieroglyphs of the stelsein the sixth place, directly before the name of the katun (10 Ahau),which thus denote the units, that is, the single days (see e and/!, whichare taken from Stelae A and J). The beardlike lines indicated belowthe head of the sun god are without doubt the u mex kin, uthe beardof the sun, the sunbeams. Wherever in this place, instead of thehead of the sun god, the simple Kin sign stands, as on Stela M of Copanand on the altar sla
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. 7 in the heads of the sungod which stand among the initial numerical hieroglyphs of the stelsein the sixth place, directly before the name of the katun (10 Ahau),which thus denote the units, that is, the single days (see e and/!, whichare taken from Stelae A and J). The beardlike lines indicated belowthe head of the sun god are without doubt the u mex kin, uthe beardof the sun, the sunbeams. Wherever in this place, instead of thehead of the sun god, the simple Kin sign stands, as on Stela M of Copanand on the altar slab of the first cross temple number in Palenque, thissun beard is regularly indicated (see g and A). I should further like to call attention to the fact that the representa-tions of the sun god found in the manuscripts by no means show theteeth filed to a point in the same characteristic way. Therefore the 100 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28.
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