Identifier: mexicancentralam28bowd (find matches)
Title: Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Bowditch, Charles P(ickering), 1842- (from old catalog) ed Seler, Eduard, 1849-1922 Förstemann, Ernst Wilhelm, 1822-1906 Schellhas, Paul, 1859- (from old catalog) Sapper, Karl Theodor, 1866- (from old catalog) Dieseldorff, Erwin P. (from old catalog) Wesselhoeft, Selma, (from old catalog) tr Parker, Alberta M., (from old catalog) tr Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Maya calendar Calendar
Publisher: Washington, Gov't print. off.
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w x y z Fig. 5. Day signs and related glyphs from the Maya codices. descent from above. Thus in the hieroglyph of the fifth cardinalpoint (e to g, figure 1), which denotes the center; in the hieroglyph ofthe bee (e to A, figure 5), which represents an insect swooping down fromabove; in the hieroglyphs (I to n, figure 5) which illustrate pouringfrom a jug or wine skin; in the hieroglyph <9, which denotes the fellingof the tree; in the snake formed by the sign Caban, upon which, in theDresden codex, page 30a, the green Chac, the Chac of the fifth direc-tion, is descending. When, in my former article, I described this caban 52 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY (bull. 28 snake, as well as d, which in the Dresden manuscript in several placesserves as a seat or footstool for Chac, and the element Caban generallyas the heavenly seat, I gave the wrong emphasis to descent from aboveinstead of to descent. In fact, this figure, like w, figure 4, which servesin other parts of the Dresden manuscript

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