i=one count.
Quiche }
and } uinay=one man. uinay= " "
Cakchiquel }
Tzendal. hun-uinic=one man. hun-uinic= " "
Maya. uinic. hun-kal= " "

In the latter case the affix kal seems to be derived from the same source
as the verb kal=to close up or fasten something, and to signify something
complete or finished. At the same time the Maya uinal is the Maya name for
the twenty calendar-signs, and the same association is demonstrated as
existing in Mexico by the well-known picture in the Vatican Codex I (p.
75), which represents a man surrounded by the twenty Mexican
calendar-signs.

As I shall treat of the same subject more fully in another publication, I
shall but briefly touch upon the intimate connection there existed between
these calendar-signs and the twenty classes into which the population was
strictly divided. It is known that an individual received the name of the
day on which he was born and it is possible to prove that this determined
his position in the commonwealth, his class and his future occupation.
Each child was formally registered by the priestly statisticians at birth,
and at about the age of six, when his name was sometimes changed, he
entered one of the two educational establishments where he was brought up
by the State, under the absolute control of the priesthood and rulers. It
can be gleaned that one of the chief cares of the latter was to maintain
the same average number of individuals in the distinct classes, to which
the various forms of labor were allotted and who became in time identified
with these. In order to keep the machinery of state in perfect adjustment,
individuals had sometimes to be transferred from the class into which they
were born, to another. In some cases this seems to have been arbitrarily
ordered by the authorities, but the latter appear to have guided
themselves by the position of the parents and to have established the
custom that an individual might alternatively be transferred into the
paternal or maternal class, but not into any other. As each class was,
moreover, divided into an upper and lower one, it was possible for each
person to elevate himself from the lower to the higher by individual merit
or to incur abasement, for unworthy conduct, and being, as we have already
seen, "reduced to the official rank of women."

The direct outcome of such a form of organization was stringent laws
gover