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I Men. | VII Eb. V Ix. |XIII Chuen.| V Cauac. | |XIII Cib. |VIII Been. VI Men. | I Eb. |VI Ahau. | | I Caban.| IX Ix. VIII | VIII | VII | | VIII | VIII 17 | 17 | 8 | | 17 | 17 ------------------------------------------------------------------ TABLE XVIII.--_Table of numeral and day symbols._ (Plate 58_a_.) ____________________________________________ 12 | 13 | 13 | 14 17 | 8 | 17 | 7 5 | 2 | 0 | 17 X Been.| V Oc. | I Lamat.|II Chicchan. XI Ix. | VI Chuen.| II Muluc.| X Cimi. XII Men. |VII Eb. |III Oc. |XI Manik. VIII | VIII | VIII | VIII 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 -------------------------------------------- TABLE XIX.--_Table of numeral and day symbols._ (Plate 58_b_.) ________________________________ 1 | 1 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 18 | II Muluc.| X Cimi. |[Picture.] III Oc. | XI Manik.| IV Chuen.|XII Lamat.| VIII | VIII | 17 | 17 | -------------------------------- The spaces in the lists indicate the positions of the pictures of persons and curtain-like ornaments inserted here and there, as seen in Figs. 363-370. In order to explain this series, we commence with that portion of it found in the lower division of Plate 51 (Fig. 363). Omitting any reference for the present to the black numbers over the day columns, we call attention first to the days and to the red numerals attached to them. Those in the division selected as an illustration are as follows: IV Ik. XII Cauac. VII Cib. II Been. X Oc. II Ezanab. V Akbal. XIII Ahau. VIII Caban. III Ix. XI Chuen. III Cauac. VI Kan. I Ymix. IX Ezanab. IV Men. XII Eb. IV Ahau.[317-1] It will be observed that the week numbers of the days in each single column follow one another in regular arithmetical order, thus: in the first column, 4, 5, 6; in the second, 12, 13, 1; in the third, 7, 8, 9; and so on throughout the entire series. The interval, therefore, between the successive days of a column is 1; or, in other words, the days follow one another in regular order, as in the month series, so that having the first day of a column given we know at once the other two. It is apparent, the
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