1 3 5
2 4 6.
The first hieroglyph on each page certainly represents one of the cardinal
points. They are in the usual order:--east, north, south and west.
2 is the same sign on each page. I take it to be the sign for Xul = end,
denoting, it may be, the end of the period of each cardinal point.
In each group 3 is the head with tuft of hair and the Akbal eye; probably
the sign denoting _beginning_. This beginning and end occur most distinctly
repeated on page 63, and the end alone eight times at the bottom of pages
61-62.
On page 31, 4 is B's sign, on page 32 B's with the prefix of the north, on
page 33 it is B's sign again and although quite indistinct its is plainly
joined with the east. On page 34 there is another indistinct sign which may
be that of the serpent deity H.
Owing to indistinctness I do not venture to determine the fifth sign on
pages 31 and 33; on page 32 it is the laterally elongated head _q_ with the
Ben-Ik superfix, and on page 34 the ordinary Kan-Imix.
The sixth sign varies as much as the fifth; it seems here to denote four
different gods, perhaps the four given on pages 25-28. On page 31 it is a
Cauac, the prefix of which here, however, suggests K, on 32 it is certainly
the hieroglyph of E and on 33 possibly of A, on 34 it most resembles Muluc
of the day-signs, but also suggests the line crossing F's face from top to
bottom.
We come now to the four pictures 2, 4, 6 and 8 and to the hieroglyphs
belonging to them, which are on the left side of the pages and belong to
the periods of 19 days.
1. B is pictured walking, raising the hatchet in his right hand, and
holding an uncertain object in his left; the serpent with the 19 set down
in its coils does not appear here. The 2nd, 3d and 4th pictures belong
together. In each picture on these three pages there is a serpent with
water in its coils and the number 19 in the water, denoting the number of
days belonging here. As on pages 61 and 62 B is emerging from the open jaws
of the serpent. In each case he is brandishing the uplifted axe in his left
hand. The difference in the three pictures consists, first, in the fact
that only in the 2nd and 3d B wears the copal pouch, second, that only in
the 3d and 4th he has an implement in his right hand (the two implements
differ somewhat but are both, apparently, adapted for hanging up) and
third, that only in 3 the whole picture is painted blue, which means that
the entire scene is enacted under water.