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be four
years found to each of these days, that is a Cauac year with 1 Cib in the
first month, a Muluc year with one Cib in the first month, a Kan year
with one Cib in the first month, an Ix year with one Cib in the first
month, a Kan year with one Ahau in the first month, &c., it is evident
that there will be, as the total result, just twenty years.
As I cannot repeat here, without occupying too much space, the method
of finding the years, I must refer the reader to Study Manuscript Troano,
p. 23, et al. Hunting them out, by using our Table III, we find them to

be as follows:
1 Cib. 1 Ahau. 1. Kan. 1. Lamat. 1 Eb.[TN-8] Years 10 Cauac. 13
Cauac. 9 Cauac. 5 Cauac. 1 Cauac. Years 2 Kan. 11 Kan. 1 Kan. 10
Kan. 6 Kan. Years 7 Muluc. 3 Muluc. 12 Muluc. 8 Muluc. 11 Muluc.
Years 12 Ix. 8 Ix. 4 Ix. 13 Ix. 9 Ix.
If we turn now to Table XVII (Study Manuscript Troano p. 44), we will
find that these are precisely the counted years (those in the space
inclosed by the dotted lines) in Ahau number VI.
If we assume the month to be the 11th then the numbers of the Ahaues
will correspond exactly with the numbers of the columns of our Table
V.[8]
As it may be supposed that using the same numeral to any five days of
the twenty in this way will produce a similar result, let us test it by an
example. For this purpose we select the same column of our foregoing
table, No. V--that with the number 1 prefixed--Cib, Ahau, Kan, Lamat,
Eb, but in place of Lamat we insert Cimi. Hunting out the years as
heretofore we find them to be as follows:
1 Cib. 1 Ahau. 1 Kan. 1 Cimi. 1 Eb. Years 10 Cauac. 13 Cauac. 9
Cauac. 7 Cauac. 1 Cauac. Years 2 Kan[TN-9] 11 Kan. 1 Kan. 12 Kan.
6 Kan. Years 7 Muluc. 3 Muluc. 12 Muluc. 10 Muluc. 11 Muluc. Years
12 Ix. 8 Ix. 4 Ix. 2 Ix. 9 Ix.
If we try to locate these years in an Ahau in Table XVII (Study
Manuscript Troano p. 44), we shall find it impossible to do so, nor can
we locate them in any table that can be made which has either
twenty-four or twenty years in an Ahau, while on the other hand the
twenty years obtained by using a column of the table from the Codex
Peresianus can be located in some one of the Ahaues obtained by any
division of the Grand Cycle into consecutive groups of twenty-four
years that can be made. It would require too much space to prove this
assertion, but any one who doubts its correctness can test it.
As the extract we have given from the Codex Peresianus relates only to

one of the four groups of days--that on the right of the quadrilateral--I
will supply in the following tables, Nos. VII, VIII, and IX, the
arrangement of the groups of the other three sides; adding the other
(Table VI), also, so as to bring the four together in the order of the sides
of the quadrilateral, commencing with the line on the right, next the
upper one, and so on.
While this is undoubtedly the order in which they are to be taken;
which is the proper one to commence with? is a question yet to be
discussed.
TABLE VI.
10. Kan. 8. Cib. 6. Lamat. 4. Ahau. 2. Eb. 10. Lamat. 8. Ahau. 6. Eb. 4.
Kan. 2. Cib. 10. Eb. 8. Kan. 6. Cib. 4. Lamat. 2. Ahau. 10. Cib. 8.
Lamat. 6. Ahau. 4. Eb. 2. Kan. 10. Ahau. 8. Eb. 6. Kan. 4. Cib. 2.
Lamat.
13. Kan. 11. Cib. 9. Lamat. 7. Ahau. 5. Eb. 13. Lamat. 11. Ahau. 9. Eb.
7. Kan. 5. Cib. 13. Eb. 11. Kan. 9. Cib. 7. Lamat. 5. Ahau. 13. Cib. 11.
Lamat. 9. Ahau. 7. Eb. 5. Kan. 13. Ahau. 11. Eb. 9. Kan. 7. Cib. 5.
Lamat.
3. Kan. 1. Cib. 12. Lamat. 3. Lamat. 1. Ahau. 12. Eb. 3. Eb. 1. Kan. 12.
Cib. 3. Cib. 1. Lamat. 12. Ahau. 3. Ahau. 1. Eb. 12. Kan.
TABLE VII.
10. Ymix. 8. Been. 6. Chicchan. 4. Caban. 2. Muluc. 10. Chicchan. 8.
Caban. 6. Muluc. 4. Ymix. 2. Been. 10. Muluc. 8. Ymix. 6. Been. 4.
Chicchan. 2. Caban. 10. Been. 8. Chicchan. 6. Caban. 4. Muluc. 2.
Ymix. 10. Caban. 8. Muluc. 6. Ymix. 4. Been. 2. Chicchan.
13. Ymix. 11. Been. 9. Chicchan. 7. Caban. 5. Muluc. 13. Chicchan. 11.
Caban. 9. Muluc. 7. Ymix. 5. Been. 13. Muluc. 11. Ymix. 9.