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other hand, the black numerals appear to be used in all
other cases where numbers not exceeding nineteen are introduced. As
will appear in the course of this discussion, there are satisfactory
reasons for believing that other symbols, quite different from these dots
and lines, are used for certain other numbers, at least for 20 and for 0.

In order that the reader may understand what follows, it is necessary to
explain the methods of counting the days, months, and years in the
order in which they succeed one another. Much relating to this will be
found in a previous work,[269-1] but a particular point needs further
explanation.
According to the older and also the more recent authorities, the Maya
years--there being 20 names for days and 365 days in a
year--commenced alternately on the first, sixth, eleventh, and sixteenth
of the series, that is to say, on the days Kan, Muluc, Ix, and Cauac,
following one another in the order here given; hence they are spoken of
as Kan years, Muluc years, Ix years, and Cauac years.
Writing out in the form of an ordinary counting house calendar the 365
days of the year, commencing with 1 Kan and numbering them
according to the Maya custom (that is, up to thirteen to form their week
and then commencing again with one) they would be as shown in Table
I.
TABLE I.--Names and numbers of the months and days of the Maya
system.
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_____________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |N t| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
|u h| | | | | | | | |Y | | | | | | |K | | | | |m e| | | | | | | | |a | | | | | | |a | | |K |C |b
| | | | | |T |T | |x | |C | | | | |n |M | |a |u |e d| | |P | |Z |z |z |X |k |M |h |Y |Z
|C |M |k |u |P |y |m |r a| | |o |U |i |o |e |u |i |o |e |a |a |e |a |i |a |a |e |h
|s y| | |p |o |p |z |c |l |n |l |n |x |c |h |c |n |n |x |b |u | s| |
|--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+o | | | 1| 2|
3| 4| 5| 6| 7| 8| 9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|18|f |
|-------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--
+---| |Names of the| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | days. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | |Kan | 1| 8| 2| 9| 3|10| 4|11| 5|12| 6|13| 7| 1| 8| 2| 9| 3| 1| |Chicchan
| 2| 9| 3|10| 4|11| 5|12| 6|13| 7| 1| 8| 2| 9| 3|10| 4| 2| |Cimi | 3|10| 4|11|
5|12| 6|13| 7| 1| 8| 2| 9| 3|10| 4|11| 5| 3| |Manik | 4|11| 5|12| 6|13| 7| 1|
8| 2| 9| 3|10| 4|11| 5|12| 6| 4| |Lamat | 5|12| 6|13| 7| 1| 8| 2| 9| 3|10|
4|11| 5|12| 6|13| 7| 5| |Muluc | 6|13| 7| 1| 8| 2| 9| 3|10| 4|11| 5|12|
6|13| 7| 1| 8| 6| |Oc | 7| 1| 8| 2| 9| 3|10| 4|11| 5|12| 6|13| 7| 1| 8| 2| 9|

7| |Chuen | 8| 2| 9| 3|10| 4|11| 5|12| 6|13| 7| 1| 8| 2| 9| 3|10| 8| |Eb | 9|
3|10| 4|11| 5|12| 6|13| 7| 1| 8| 2| 9| 3|10| 4|11| 9| |Been |10| 4|11| 5|12|
6|13| 7| 1| 8| 2| 9| 3|10| 4|11| 5|12| 10| |Ix |11| 5|12| 6|13| 7| 1| 8| 2| 9|
3|10| 4|11| 5|12| 6|13| 11| |Men |12| 6|13| 7| 1| 8| 2| 9| 3|10| 4|11|
5|12| 6|13| 7| 1| 12| |Cib |13| 7| 1| 8| 2| 9| 3|10| 4|11| 5|12| 6|13| 7| 1|
8| 2| 13| |Caban | 1| 8| 2| 9| 3|10| 4|11| 5|12| 6|13| 7| 1| 8| 2| 9| 3| 14|
|Ezanab | 2| 9| 3|10| 4|11| 5|12| 6|13| 7| 1| 8| 2| 9| 3|10| 4| 15| |Cauac |
3|10| 4|11| 5|12| 6|13| 7| 1| 8| 2| 9| 3|10| 4|11| 5| 16| |Ahau | 4|11|
5|12| 6|13| 7| 1| 8| 2| 9| 3|10| 4|11| 5|12| 6| 17| |Ymix | 5|12| 6|13| 7| 1|
8| 2| 9| 3|10| 4|11| 5|12| 6|13| 7| 18| |Ik | 6|13| 7| 1| 8| 2| 9| 3|10| 4|11|
5|12| 6|13| 7| 1| 8| 19| |Akbal | 7| 1| 8| 2| 9| 3|10| 4|11| 5|12| 6|13| 7| 1|
8| 2| 9| 20|
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Intercalated days. | | | |Kan |10| | |Chicchan |11| | |Cimi |12| | |Manik
|13|