irst day of these
columns are as follows (omitting the week days attached):

14 11 8 5 2 10
Ik. Cauac. Cib. Been. Oc. Ezanab.

Turning to the calendar (Table II) and using the Muluc column, we notice
that the figures of this third line of black numerals denote respectively
the month numbers of the days under them; that is to say, Ik is the
fourteenth day of the month in Muluc years, Cauac the eleventh, Cib the
eighth, Been the fifth, Oc the second, and Ezanab the tenth. This holds
good through Plates 52_b_ to 58_b_ without a single exception, provided
the diamond shaped symbol in the fourth column of Plate 55_b_ is counted
as 20. This test, therefore, presents fewer exceptions than are found in
counting the intervals as before explained; yet, after all, this would
necessarily result from the fact that the day Muluc was selected as the
commencement of the series, and hence may have no signification in
reference to or bearing on the question of the year series, especially as
the years counted are evidently of 360 days.

Returning now to our Table VIII, representing Plate 53_a_, we observe
that the number immediately over Kan in the first column is 17, whereas
Kan is the sixteenth day of the month. Is it not possible that the
intention was to designate as the ceremonial day Chicchan, standing
immediately below, which is the seventeenth day of the month in Muluc
years? Even though there is no reference to Muluc years, the intervals
may be given upon the same idea, that of reaching, for some particular
reason, the second or third day of the column instead of the first. This
would account for the compensation of which Dr. Foerstemann speaks,
without implying any mistake on the part of the writer. These
irregularities would then be intentional variations from the order of the
series, yet so as not to break the general plan.

The interval between 6 Kan of the first column (with the month number
corrected) and 1 Ymix of the second is 8 months and 17 days, as it should
be; between 6 Muluc and 1 Cimi, 8 months and 17 days; and between 1 Cimi
and 9 Akbal, 8 months and 17 days, thus conforming to the rule heretofore
given, a fact which holds good as a general rule throughout that portion
of the series in the upper division.

Continuing the addition as heretofore we note the variations.

Years. Months. Days. Column. Plate.
17 14 Second. 53_a_.