The Books of Chilan Balam the Prophetic And Historic Records of the Mayas of Y
The Books of Chilan Balam the Prophetic And Historic Records of the Mayas of Y
Daniel G Brinton
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exactitude de leur trace, qtfavecune certains reserve" Leon de Rosny's " Essai sur le Dechiffrement de PEcriture Hieratique de FAmerique Centrale" page 21 (Paris, 1876). By the " Codex Peresianus" he does not mean the " Codice Perez" but the Maya manuscript in the Bibliothque Nationale. The iden- tity of the names is confusing and unfortunate. 15 Spanish and Maya which settles some disputed points in the use of the vigesimal system by the Mayas. A curious chapter in several of the books, especi...ally those of Kaua and Mani, is that on the thirteen ahau katuns, or epochs of the greater cycle of the Mayas. This cycle embraced thirteen periods, which, as I have before remarked, are computed by some at twenty years each, by others at twenty-four years each. Each of these katuns was presided over by a chief or king, that being the meaning of the word ahau. The books above-mentioned give both the name and the portrait, drawn and colored by the rude hand of the native artist, of each of these kings, and they suggest several interesting analogies.
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