Category: History - Ancient
III. How the Maya reckoned time 37 The tonalamatl, or 260-day period 41 The haab, or year of 365 days 44 The Calendar Round, or 18,980-day period 51 The Long Count 60 Initial Series 63 The introducing glyph 64 The cycle glyph 68 The katun glyph 68 The tun glyph 70 The uinal gl...
The present chapter will be devoted to the interpretation of texts drawn from monuments, a process which consists briefly in the application to the inscriptions[110] of the mate...
10. CHAPTER VIThe present chapter will treat of the application of the material presented in Chapters III and IV to texts drawn from the codices, or hieroglyphic manuscripts; and since these...
8. Chapter VI is reached, which treats of the codices exclusively. {96}Let us next turn to the consideration of the Maya "Arabic notation," that is, the head-variant numerals, which, like all other known head variants, are practically restricted to...
5. CHAPTER III. HOW THE MAYA RECKONED TIMEAmong all peoples and in all ages the most obvious unit for the measurement of time has been the day; and the never-failing reappearance of light after each interval of darkness...
2. CHAPTER I. THE MAYABroadly speaking, the Maya were a lowland people, inhabiting the Atlantic coast plains of southern Mexico and northern Central America. (See pl. 1.) The southern part of this re...
4. Chapter I. Writing in the year 1565, within 25 years of the SpanishConquest, Landa was able to obtain characters for 27 sounds, as follows: Three _a's_, two _b's_, _c_, _t_, _e_, _h_, _i_, _ca_, _k_, two _l's_, _m_, _n_, two _o's_, _pp_, _p_, _...
7. CHAPTER IVThe present chapter will be devoted to the consideration of Maya arithmetic in its relation to the calendar. It will be shown how the Maya expressed their numbers and how they u...
1. CHAPTER I. The Maya 1III. How the Maya reckoned time 37 The tonalamatl, or 260-day period 41 The haab, or year of 365 days 44 The Calendar Round, or 18,980-day period 51 The Long Count 60 Initial Se...
3. CHAPTER II. THE MAYA HIEROGLYPHIC WRITINGThe inscriptions herein described are found throughout the region formerly occupied by the Maya people (pl. 1), though by far the greater number have been discovered at the sout...
6. Chapter I was compiled, accurately fixes the date of events, ignoring theHow early this method of recording dates was developed is uncertain. It has not yet been found (surely) in the inscriptions in either the south or the north; on the other hand,...