Aside from the usual leaflike prefix, the third sign is composed of two
parts. The upper part looks like a plaited mat and suggests that the word
for the first month of the year (Pop) is expressed by mat. The lower part
is the sign, which occurs frequently especially on pages 25-28, and which
very much resembles the familiar sign for a year of 360 days. We shall meet
it again in the continuation of this Tonalamatl on pages 36 and 38. The
three passages refer to the 74th, 139th, and 204th days of the Tonalamatl,
and hence are 65 days apart.
The 4th sign is the cross _b_, with possibly the sign of the east as a
prefix.
7. B is seated on the cross _b_, which is here undoubtedly meant for an
astronomical sign. He holds a Kan sign in his hand and there is an Ahau
sign on his back.
The naked crouching personage, pointing upward, should have especial
mention here. The same figure recurs above as a prefix to the 4th
hieroglyph. We have already seen it in the 39th hieroglyph on page 24, and
shall meet it with especial frequency in the second part of the Manuscript.
It is placed sometimes, as in this case, _before_ a sign, sometimes _after_
a sign and again two of these figures are placed back to back as on page
22c, and one of them is even placed upside down before another sign, where
it seemed to me to be a sign for Mercury ("Zur Entzifferung VII," p. 11).
This figure is represented independently only on the right of page 58. In
the passage under present consideration this personage appears again on
page 38. The two figures are connected one with the 85th and the other with
the 215th day, and are, therefore, divided by exactly half a Tonalamatl or
130 days. Here we find it as a prefix of the supposed sign for _beginning_
of which mention was made in discussing the 5th group. The 3d sign is the
same astronomical one, which we saw below under B. It might refer to the
Moan and to the change of the year, and thus indicate that a Mercury
revolution was coincident here with the beginning of the solar year.
8. B is walking in the rain, both arms are stretched upward, and the pouch
hangs from his neck. At the left top there is a black spot suggesting those
which usually occur beside the sun and moon.
The 3rd sign is Manik, with a prefix. The 4th is an indistinct head, which
may be C's, with an Imix sign as a prefix.
9. B is walking with the pouch hanging from his neck, and the hatchet in
his hand.
The 3d sign, which is unusual, is very obscure, but suggests the fish on
page 44c or that on page 36b. The 4th sign with the prefix of the north is
very indistinct.
10. B is standing in _water_, his face turned upward while water is pouring
from a cloud. The third sign is very complex. The top, left, suggests a
serpent, the right a hand, the bottom, left, a Chuen and the element at the
bottom, right, may be intended for a bird's head. Exactly the same sign,
with the 4th part merely indicated, occurs 65 days later on page 38. The
4th sign is the familiar compound Kin-Akbal.
11. B is sitting in a tent, on the roof of which there is a vessel
containing food of some kind.
The third sign, which is very complex, is indistinct. The 4th sign likewise
consists of four parts, the left, bottom, part is probably the vessel,
above it is a spiral (which usually means serpent or time). The right,
bottom, is again the sign resembling the year-sign which was spoken of in
discussing group 6. The component at the right, top, is indistinct.
12. B is sitting here on no less than four astronomical signs, he has the
hatchet in his hand and the design on his back may be a shield or the
elaborately ornamented sun-glyph Kin.
The third sign (denoting _beginning_?) has already been discussed in
connection with group 7, which is 65 days earlier. The fourth is the sign
of the year of 360 days or the month Pax with the Ben-Ik as a prefix. These
signs are here suggestive of the beginning and end of the year.
13. _Above_ B are astronomical signs (Jupiter and Mercury?) and also the
sun and moon. The rain is pouring down upon the god, and a fish is placed
beside him. He seems to have the same chisel in his hand which we saw him
using on page 41b in connection with the beginning of the year. This again
would correspond to the date indicated in the preceding picture. The shield
(?) also is the same here as in the preceding group.
The third sign ought to represent the fish; the drawing seems to have been
unsuccessful and the sign looks more like a bird and also resembles the
third sign in the ninth group on page 36. The fourth sign is a Kin-Akbal.
14. B is seated on the elongated head _q_, which has an ordinary prefix. He
is pointing upward with his right hand and the left looks as if opened to
receive something.
The third hieroglyph contains a _q_ like the one under the god, the fourth
is an indistinct head (C's?) with an unintelligible prefix.
15. B is standing in water while rain is again pouring down upon him. He
holds the hatchet raised in his left hand, while the fingers of the right
are extended upward in an unusual manner. This is repeated in the third
hieroglyph.
The third hieroglyph, however, is the same as the third in the tenth group
65 days earlier, only here the hand is more distinct, while the element
below it is vague. The fourth sign is again the one denoting beginning.
Compare the fifth group (130 days earlier).