Chapter 15

Signs for Day, Chuen, Ahau, Katun, Cycle, Great Cycle

and it will be seen from the following tables that the signs for the days and months found on the carved stelæ do not differ materially from those given by Landa. A number of alternative signs is given for the day Ahau, and one named Uayeb is added to the list of eighteen months. This month Uayeb consists of the five intercalated days only.

DAY SIGNS.Day signs

DAY SIGNS.

MONTH SIGNS.Month signs

MONTH SIGNS.

All the dates on the monuments which have as yet been examined fall within the three Great Cycles numbered, according to Mr. Goodman, the 53rd, 54th, and 55th.

Mr. Goodman has prepared and published full tables of these three Great Cycles which he calls the “Chronological Calendar,” as well as a “Yearly Calendar” extending over the complete calendar round of 52 years.

Fifty-fourth Great Cycle.

Ninth Cycle.

Archaic Annual Calendar.

1st Year.

13th Year.

35th Year.

38th Year.


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