It begins with a Venus-solar-Tonalamatl-period followed by 12 Mars years,
then the great period again followed by 8 × 13 = 104 Mercury years, and
lastly, apparently about the present time, comes the third great period,
which, as already stated, ends 135,200 days after the first date.
The case assumes a different aspect, if we insert between the three dates
the other two from page 24:--
1,317,040 = I Ahau,
1,352,400 = I Ahau,
1,364,360 = I Ahau,
1,366,560 = IV Ahau,
1,414,280 = I Ahau.
Here we have again, as examination of page 24 showed, the difference 11,960
between the second and third numbers, while there is no longer any
connection with the periods of 37,960 days.
Of the left halves of the pages we have now examined all except the twenty
hieroglyphs of the gods. I shall mention them according to the upper place
in line 16; the lower in line 19, where the hieroglyphs move forward only
one place, is only referred to when the two signs differ. They offer many
problems still unsolved.
The first sign on page 46 is an unknown sign, which, however, is repeated
several times on the right side of the pages; the second is probably an
Ahau (_i.e._, D) with a prefix suggesting the snail, the symbol of birth;
the third is a head also occurring elsewhere, which I have not yet
determined; the fourth is A; compare page 24, hieroglyph 25.
Page 47. The first sign is probably K; compare the third picture on page 7a
with its hieroglyph; the second is C's hieroglyph with an Akbal appropriate
to it; the third sign is Moan with the 13 belonging to it; the fourth sign
is N's with a prefixed 4; the year-sign in the lower series is replaced by
Zac, which agrees equally well; compare page 24, hieroglyph 21.
Page 48. The first sign is Kin with the Ben-Ik superfix, perhaps denoting
G; the second is a figure similar to the year-sign with a prefixed 6. This
same sign in the line below has a 6, but is very different in other
respects; the third is an Akbal with superfix and prefix, perhaps denoting
D; the fourth is a head which might easily be F's; compare page 24,
hieroglyph 22.
Page 49. The first sign is B's; the second, A's; the 3d, K's; compare page
24, hieroglyph 38; the fourth is H's with a prefixed 1; compare page 24,
hieroglyphs 23 and perhaps 37.
Page 50. The first sign is E's; compare page 24, hieroglyph 38; the second
is L, the black deity; compare page 24, hieroglyph 32; the third is an
unknown hieroglyph with a prefixed 7, which also occurs on page 5a and 19b;
the fourth is the bat-god; compare page 24, hieroglyph 24.
I find it impossible to discover any relation between these hieroglyphs and
the periods and I have as little success with the hieroglyphs apparently
belonging to the same cardinal point. Perhaps we should follow Seler here
(Quetzalcoatl and Kukulcan, p. 403), who thinks these passages suggest
constellations with which Venus is in conjunction; this question, owing to
the retrogression of the planet, raises increased difficulties. It is
curious that the fourth of these signs on page 46 is like the fourteenth on
page 49 (A), and perhaps the two following refer to the same god K; the
first two are separated by 1494 days and the latter by 1508 days.
We come now to the _right_ half of the pages. Interpretation is rendered
impossible by the destruction of the top part. For we do not even know
whether the upper hieroglyphs occupied three or four rows each, the latter
being the case at least in part, and there may have been a superscription
over the day signs in the left half.
These upper signs are always followed by a picture, then three rows of
hieroglyphs, then a second picture and next two rows of hieroglyphs and
lastly a third picture.