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Excerpt from The Maya Year For present purposes it will be necessary to use only one of these lines or series. The first or top days of the columns, commencing with III Cib (or 3 may therefore be selected. It is necessary now to give the names of the months and the numbers attached to them exactly in the order in which they stand on the plates, placing over them the corresponding first days of the columns above (see table The counters or intervals are also added below. It is to be understood that the counter below a column indicates the interval between the day over the preceding column and the day over the column under which it is found. For example, 4 (months) and 10 (days) un der the second column of plate 46 indicate the interval between 3 Cib, first column, and 2 Cimi, second column. In this table the portions of the series found on a plate are given together, with the plate number over them, as plate plate etc. The upper cross line of each plate is the upper line of days of the day columns; the next line below this gives the months and numbers of the days of the month of the first month series. These two upper lines and the two lines at the bottom, consisting Of months and days and forming the counters or intervals, are all that will be used in the explanation which follows. In order that the reader may observe the positions which the symbols corresponding with these names and numbers occupy on the plates, a facsimile of plate 50 is introduced (plate I). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, howeve