1 2 5 9 13 14 17 18 21 22
3 4 6 10 15 16 19 20 23 24.
7 11
8 12
Again, six women should be portrayed here, but there are only four; the
second and third are wanting. The signs for the women are given in 3, 7,
11, 15, 19 and 23, but in 15 and 19 the prefix is different from that of
the rest. As from here on the women repeatedly carry a bird, the signs for
this are 2, 6, 10, 14, 18 and 22, which are the symbol of a rising bird, as
in the sign of the 15th Uinal (Moan), which in my opinion generally
coincides with the 13th month of 28 days.
The women pictured here have nothing in their hands, which they hold
stretched forward, as is usually the case in this section. The first woman
carries a vulture on her head. Compare 8a. In regard to it see also
Schellhas, "Göttergestalten," p. 31. The hieroglyph of the vulture, which
we find repeated on page 17c, 24, 37b, 46, 50, 65, is here hieroglyph 1,
usually regarded as the sign of the bat deity, and near it in 4 is _q_.
The second woman would have carried the black deity L (hieroglyph 5), to
which _q_ is added in 8.
The third would have had the dog, _i.e._, the lightning dog, which we find
in hieroglyph 9 and in the month sign Kankin; an _a_ is added to them in
12.
The fourth woman carries A, as is proved by his signs in 13 and 16.
The fifth carries nothing; according to the hieroglyphs 17 and 20 she ought
to carry D.
Lastly the sixth carries the Moan as is proved by signs 21 and 24.
Pages 16c--17c.
Muluc 8 13 13 13 8 10
Ix
Cauac
Kan
Muluc.
This is a Tonalamatl of 4 × 65 days. The Muluc at the bottom is, therefore,
superfluous. I have been obliged to correct the 12 in the last column of
the Manuscript by changing it into a 10. The red numerals are again
wanting.
This passage admirably continues the one in the preceding Tonalamatl
containing the women carrying birds, and is also divided into six parts.