| 4. Gix.
| 5. Kan. | 5. Muluc. | 5. Gix. | 5. Cauac.
| 6. Muluc. | 6. Gix. | 6. Cauac. | 6. Kan.
| 7. Gix. | 7. Cauac. | 7. Kan. | 7. Muluc.
| 8. Cauac. | 8. Kan. | 8. Muluc. | 8. Gix.
| 9. Kan. | 9. Muluc. | 9. Gix. | 9. Cauac.
| 10. Muluc. | 10. Gix. | 10. Cauac. | 10. Kan.
| 11. Gix. | 11. Cauac. | 11. Kan. | 11. Muluc.
| 12. Cauac. | 12. Kan. | 12. Muluc. | 12. Gix.
| 13. Kan. | 13. Muluc. | 13. Gix. | 13. Cauac.
|----------------|----------------|-----------------|---------------

This period of 52 years was called by the Indians _Katun_, and at its
conclusion great feasts were celebrated, and a monument was raised, on
which a large stone was placed crosswise, as is signified by the word
_Kat-tun_, for a memento and record of the cycles, or _Katunes_, that
had elapsed. It should be observed, that until the completion of this
period, the initial days of the years did not again fall upon the same
numbers of the week; for which reason, by merely citing them, it was at
once known what year of that cycle was arrived at; being aided in this
by the wheel or table on which the years were engraved in
hieroglyphics.

8 deg.. _Of the great Cycle of 312 Years, or Ajau Katunes_.

Besides the cycle of 52 years, or _Katun_, there was another great
cycle peculiar to the Yucatecos, who referred to its periods for dating
their principal epochs and the most notable events of their history. It
contained 13 periods of 24 years each, making together 312 years. Each
period, or _Ajau Katun_, was divided into two parts; the first of 20
years, which was included in a square, and therefore called _amaytun_,
_lamayte_, or _lamaytun_; and the other of four years, which formed, as
it were, a pedestal for the first, and was called _chek oc Katun_, or
_lath oc Katun_, which means "stool" or "pedestal." They considered
those four years as intercalated; therefore believed them to be
unfortunate, and called them _u yail Jaab_, as they did the five
supplementary days of the year, to which they likened them.

From this separation of the first 20 years from the last four, arose
the erroneous belief that the _Ajaus_ consisted only of 20 years, an
error into which almost all have fallen who have written on th