Identifier: annualreportofbu219smit (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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g time periods as he gives them are asfollows: 4 Ahau, 8 — (month not identifiable), 16 daj^s, 5 chuen.s, ISahaus, 12 katuns, and 9 cycles, followed by the date 2 Cib, l-t Mol.Reducing these time period.? to days, the residt is as follows: Days 9 cycles 1, 2m, 000 12 katuns 86, 400 18 ahaus . 6,480 5 chuens 100 16 davs. 16 T(.ital 1, :-.S8, 996 Deduct 7:^ calendar rounds 1, 38.5, .540 This leaves A, 456 As the first date can not l)e full^ determined, it will ))(> necessary tocount back from the second date—2 Cib l-t Mol, which falls in the year5 Akbal. Subtracting 16-1, the preceding days of this ,year, from 8,-lr56and dividing the remainder by 365, we obtain 9 years and 17 days.Deducting 5 for the added days, there remain 12 to be counted backon the last month of the year 8 Ben, which we find hy counting backon table 3 is the year in which the first date falls. This gives 4 Ahau8 Cumhu, which is, no doubt, correct, as this date is a very commonone on the Palenque inscriptions.
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THOMAS) TABLET OF THE CROSS 733 Mr Goodmiin. aftoi- iiscci-tuiiiino- the iiuml)er of days in the timeperiods precisely as they are given above, proceeds as follows: From these (1,388,996 days) we deduct as many calendar rounds as possible,being 73, or 1,383,540 days, leaving 3,456. From these we take 155, the number ofdays fioin the beginning of the year to 14 Mol, that being the only date we are cer-tain of. This leaves 3,.301 days. From these deduct all the years possible, being 9,or 3,285 days. There are now but 16 days left. Reckoning back from the end ofthe year, we find these reach to 8 Cumhu (according to his method of numberingthe days of the month), a circumstance that enables us easily to recognize thestrange sign as a variant of the symbol for that month. Turning now to the AnnualCalendar, we find that 4 Ahau-8 Cumhu occurs on page 7, and, pa.=sing over 9 yearstill we come to page 17, we find that 2 Cib falls on the 14tli of Mol in that year.Thus we are satisfied that the s

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