Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; (1904) (14801437023)

Identifier: mexicancentralamer00bowd (find matches)
Title: Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Bowditch, Charles P. (Charles Pickering), 1842-1921 Seler, Eduard, 1849-1922 Förstemann, Ernst Wilhelm, 1822-1906 Schellhas, Paul, b. 1859 Sapper, Karl, 1866-1945 Dieseldorff, Erwin Paul, 1868-1940 Wesselhoeft, Selma Parker, Alberta M Thomas, Cyrus, 1825-1910
Subjects: Mayas Maya calendar Calendar, Mexican
Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute



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^ be merely accidental that the fourth day of thew^eek of thirteen days is also noted below^ (see d). In the Dresdencodex, page 39a, the lightning beast also carries two torches, one point-ing up and the other down (see e). The tortoise is especially frequentin that part of the Madrid Troano codex, long since separated from it,which is now commonly called Codex Cortesianus. It does not « Schild Krote und Schnecke in der Mayalileratui-, Dresden, June 21, 1892. 423 424 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY (BULL. 28 occur in the technical and economic divisions of the manuscript, butonly in the astronomic and calendric part, on pages 1 to 19 and 31 to42, and only toward the end of these two divisions. The passagesare the following: Page 13a, where the hieroglyphs belonging to it are effaced. Page 17a, where, with the picture of the tortoise, its hieroglyphappears at least four times (see /).
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e f d 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 we 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 hierogl^q^h for the tortoise is hicking here. Page 3Ta, on the upper portion of which there are three astronomicsigns: below, the sun repeated, from which rain streams down o