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Identifier: mexicancentralam28bowd (find matches)
Title: Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Bowditch, Charles P(ickering), 1842- (from old catalog) ed Seler, Eduard, 1849-1922 Förstemann, Ernst Wilhelm, 1822-1906 Schellhas, Paul, 1859- (from old catalog) Sapper, Karl Theodor, 1866- (from old catalog) Dieseldorff, Erwin P. (from old catalog) Wesselhoeft, Selma, (from old catalog) tr Parker, Alberta M., (from old catalog) tr Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Maya calendar Calendar
Publisher: Washington, Gov't print. off.
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2II Fig. 103. Glyphs of the month Kayab and turtle figures, from Maya codices and inscriptions. Page 17b, among a series of day signs. To the right of it a frog isrepresented; to the left, astronomic signs and the sun; between them,a crouching (praying?) human figure with outstretched hands. Page 19b, where we find it surrounded by three deities—a blackone, a second with the mouth painted black, and a white one. Allthree hold parts of a rope or of a serpent (the course of the year?),whose upper part rises above the tortoise. The hieroglyph of the latteris close to it, both above and below. Nor must wTe omit to mentionthat the sign yax (strength) occurs on the back of the tortoise. forstemann) TORTOISE AND SNAIL IN MAYA LITERATURE 425 Page 36b, where, beside the tortoise, is a person with closed eyes(dead). The hieroglyph for the tortoise is lacking here, Page 37a, on the upper portion of which there are three astronomicsigns: below, the sun repeated, from which rain streams down or,
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a =10.1 b c Fig. 104. Glyphs and figures from the Maya codices.

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