. Bulletin. Ethnology. fSrstemann] series OF NUMBERS, DRESDEN" CODEX 469 All these pictures are joined at the top to those rectangles of which 1 have spoken in my Erlauterungen, page 16, and which always con- tain two or three glyphs, that, with much hesitation, I was inclined to interpret as the symbols of the sun, moon, and planets. No serious contradiction of this theory has thus far ensued. As the symbol of Saturn, I indicated in the article mentioned a or h^ figure 109: These figures are actually found in all of the nine pic- tures wnth the exception of the first, w'hich has no such
. Bulletin. Ethnology. fSrstemann] series OF NUMBERS, DRESDEN" CODEX 469 All these pictures are joined at the top to those rectangles of which 1 have spoken in my Erlauterungen, page 16, and which always con- tain two or three glyphs, that, with much hesitation, I was inclined to interpret as the symbols of the sun, moon, and planets. No serious contradiction of this theory has thus far ensued. As the symbol of Saturn, I indicated in the article mentioned a or h^ figure 109: These figures are actually found in all of the nine pic- tures wnth the exception of the first, w'hich has no such rectangle, the place, therefore, wheiv the zero point is concealed, according to the true Maya method. But I go still farther in my bold hypothesis. The time assigned to Jupiter for its apparent revolution is 397 days. I believe that the Mayas adopted 398 days for the period. In the article mentioned I have taken to be the symbol of Jupiter: c or ^/, figure 109. This character occurs in pictures 4, 6, 7, and 9. The numbers ^ S[ ^1 E. fa-'^ii©. 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 Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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