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    Memoranda on the Maya Calendars Used in the Books of Chilan Balam
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    Memoranda on the Maya Calendars Used in the Books of Chilan Balam
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    Memoranda on the Maya Calendars Used in the Books of Chilan Balam

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      Memoranda on the Maya Calendars Used in the Books of Chilan Balam - Charles P. Bowditch

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      Title: Memoranda on the Maya Calendars Used in the Books of Chilan Balam

      Author: Charles P. Bowditch

      Release Date: May 12, 2012 [EBook #39683]

      Language: English

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      MEMORANDA ON THE MAYA CALENDARS USED IN THE BOOKS OF CHILAN BALAM

      BY

      CHARLES P. BOWDITCH

      (From the American Anthropologist (

      N. S.

      ), Vol. 3, January-March, 1901)

      NEW YORK

      G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

      1901

      MEMORANDA ON THE MAYA CALENDARS USED IN THE BOOKS OF CHILAN BALAM

      By

      CHARLES P. BOWDITCH

      Dr Brinton, in his Maya Chronicles, has translated the following passages from the Book of Chilan Balam of Mani:

      ... in the thirteenth Ahau Ahpula died; for six years the count of the thirteenth Ahau will not be ended; the count of the year was toward the East, the month Pop began with (the day) fourth Kan; the eighteenth day of the month Zip (that is) 9 Ymix, was the day on which Ahpula died; and that the count may be known in numbers and years, it was the year 1536.

      And again from the Book of Chilan Balam of Tizimin:

      The thirteenth Ahau; the death of Ahpulha took place; it was the sixth year when ended the count of the thirteenth Ahau,—the count of the year was from the east (the

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