Notes on Certain Maya and Mexican Manuscripts
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Notes on Certain Maya and Mexican Manuscripts, by Cyrus Thomas, has a contents list that names, among others, "Tableau des Bacab", "Plate 43 of the Borgian Codex" and "Plate 44 of the Fejervary Codex". The text says, "In the four compartments of the Tablet appear the same cyclic signs again in two series." The text states, "Besides these cyclic signs no other katounes are found on the Tablet, except four groups."
The text quotes someone who says, "The Indians made a little wheel in which they placed the initial days of the year," with "Kan at the east, Muluc at the north, Gix or Hix at the west, and Cauac at the south." The text asks, "Is it not possible that we have here an indication of the four days", naming "Dragon, Death, Monkey, Vulture, with which the Mexican years began."
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