Chapter VI

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[45] These three inscriptions are found on Stela N, west side, at Copan, the tablet of the Temple of the Inscriptions at Palenque, and Stela 10 at Tikal. For the discussion of these inscriptions, see pp. 114-127.

[46] The discussion of glyphs which may represent the great cycle or period of the 6th order will be presented on pp. 114-127 in connection with the discussion of numbers having six or more orders of units.

[47] The figure on Zoömorph B at Quirigua, however, has a normal human head without grotesque characteristics.

[48] The full-figure glyphs are included with the head variants in this proportion.

[49] Any system of counting time which describes a date in such a manner that it can not recur, satisfying all the necessary conditions, for 374,400 years, must be regarded as absolutely accurate in so far as the range of human life on this planet is concerned.

[50] There are a very few monuments which have two Initial Series instead of one. So far as the writer knows, only six monuments in the entire Maya area present this feature, namely, Stelæ F, D, E, and A at Quirigua, Stela 17 at Tikal, and Stela 11 at Yaxchilan.

[51] Refer to p. 64 and figure 23. It will be noted that the third tooth (i. e. day) after the one named 7 Akbal 11 Cumhu is 10 Cimi 14 Cumhu.

[52] This method of dating does not seem to have been used with either uinal or kin period endings, probably because of the comparative frequency with which any given date might occur at the end of either of these two periods.

[53] In