1 2 5 6 9 11 13
3 4 7 8 10 12 14
15
16.
Among these are hieroglyphs which are common to all the groups:--the cross
in 1, 5 and 9 and the woman in 3, 7 and 15. In 13 this cross is replaced by
another sign, perhaps that for the year of 360 days, and in 12 the sign for
woman is replaced by the universal a.
Each of the three pictures contains a woman facing a deity. I will consider
first the second picture in which H is the deity, as is proved by
hieroglyph 6 to which an Imix is added in 8, with the uplifted arm prefixed
as in 10c and 13a.
Between the first and third pictures there is some confusion. The first is
D, for while his type inclines more to that of N, the other old god of the
Maya Olympus, comparison with 23c clearly shows that D is intended here.
But the year-sign on his head also suggests in some measure the Uayeyab god
N and moreover this sign does not belong to D and only occurs again with
him on page 23c. Further, there is no hieroglyph at all for D and instead
we find in 2, 5 Zac, the regular sign of N. Also sign 4 fits N better than
it does D. Furthermore this passage relates to the day Ik, which might very
well be the last day of the year.
On the other hand the third picture contains, unquestionably, the figure of
N. I look for his sign in the 11th hieroglyph, which is the head of an old
man with a prefixed 4, referring to the four different forms of N in the
Kan, Muluc, Ix and Cauac years. The Ahau in 12, however, does not fit N,
but D.
This confusion can only be adjusted by transferring D from the first group
to the third and also, perhaps, the sign of the woman in 3, which applies
to all the three groups, and by transferring to the first group N and the
11th sign of the third group.
The fourth group has no picture. It should have, as hieroglyph 14 shows,
the god F, who represents death by violence in human sacrifice and the
chase. The hieroglyph Cimi in the 16th place is a suitable sign for this
deity.
Pages 22c--23c.
II 10 XII 12 XI 9 VII 6 XIII 7 VII 8 II
Oc
Ik
Ix
Cimi
Ezanab.