. Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. Mayas; Indians of Mexico; Indians of Central America; Mayas; Indians of Mexico; Indians of Central America; Inscriptions, Mayan; Maya calendar. THE KATUN. It is over this period that the battle royal has been fought. The question of twenty or twenty-four years has raged undeterminedly for more than half a century. As the facts themselves will show the folly of the whole contention, I pass it by without awarding to any individual combatant the discredit of his partisanship. Tw
. Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. Mayas; Indians of Mexico; Indians of Central America; Mayas; Indians of Mexico; Indians of Central America; Inscriptions, Mayan; Maya calendar. THE KATUN. It is over this period that the battle royal has been fought. The question of twenty or twenty-four years has raged undeterminedly for more than half a century. As the facts themselves will show the folly of the whole contention, I pass it by without awarding to any individual combatant the discredit of his partisanship. Twenty years of 3G5 days make 7,300 days. The katun does not reach that far, falling a hundred days short, as a multiplication of its constituent parts will show: 360x20=7,200. In consequence of the day Ahau beginning the ahaus it must also begin the katuns; and the ahaus succeeding each other by differences of four—as 9, 5, 1, 10, 6, 2, 11, 7, 3, 12, 8, 4, 13, 9, 5, 1, 10, 6, 2, 11, 7, etc.—it results that the order of the katuns, composed as they are of twenty ahaus, must be one in which each succeeding katun begins with a day number two less than its forerunner—thus: 11, 9, 7, 5, 3, 1,12,10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 13, 11, etc. The katuns are numerated in the same manner as the ahaus: 20, 1, 2, 3, etc., up to Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Maudslay, Alfred Percival, 1850-1931; Goodman, J. T; Godman, Frederick Du Cane, 1834-1919; Salvin, Osbert, 1835-1898; Greve, W. , lithographer; Griggs, William, 1832-1911; Hunter, Ada; Purkiss, W. , lithographer; Shawe, W; Sweet, H. N. (Henry N. ). London : Published for the editors by R. H. Porter . .. and Dulau & Co.
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