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Another Mayan Hieroglyph for “Day”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Hermann Beyer
Hermann Beyer*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Middle American Research, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
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Charles P. Bowditch reproduces about seven different signs as hieroglyphs for Kin, “day,” in his fundamental work on the Maya calendar. They are: (1) the sun-disk, (2) the head of the sun-god, (3) the head of a sun-bird, (4) the dog's head, (5) the conch, (6) the inverted Ahau and (7) the composite glyph day-sky, sun-disc and Caban. There can be identified still a few more hieroglyphs as representing the same idea.

In this paper we shall treat of a new sign, generally composed of a quincunx (a variant of the character for “greenstone”) and a skull (Figure 1, a, b and f), for which the value “day” can be proved.

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , July 1936 , pp. 13 - 14
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1936

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References

12 Charles P. Bowditch, The Numeration, Calendar Systems and Astronomical Knowledge of the Mayas. Cambridge, Mass., 1910, PI. XIV.

13 Thus, for instance, the monkey head. El Mexico Antiguo, Vol. II, pp. 286–287.

14 Sylvanus G. Morley, The Inscriptions at Copan. Washington 1920, p. 168.

15 Cesar Lizardi Ramos, En Torno la ultima Inscripci6n Palencana. Revista de Revistas, Mexico City, 26-year, no. 1345 (Febr. 23, 1936). A larger reproduction will be published in one of the next numbers of Maya Research.