Yucatan. Chiapa. Mechoacan. Nicaragua. Mexican.
1 KAN yellow Ghanan Inodon 9 CipatCipactli
2 Chicchan small Abagh Inic Ebi 10 AcatEhecatl
3 Quimi death Tox Inettuni 11 CaliCalli
4 Manik wind ceasing Moxic Inbeari 12 QuespalcoatCuetzpalin
5 Lamat Lambat Inethaati 13 MigisteCohuatl
6 Muluc union? Mulu Inbani 14 MacatMiquiztli
7 Oc palm of hand? Elab Inxichari 15 TosteMazatl
8 Chuen board Batz Inchini 16 AtTochtli
9 Eb ladder Enob In Rini 17 IzquindiAtl
10 Be-en Be-en In Pari 18 OcomatItzcuintli
11 HIX rough Hix Inchon 19 MalinalOzomatli
12 Men a mechanic Tziquin Inthahui 20 AcatoMalinalli
13 Quib wax Chabin Intzini 1 AgatAcatl
14 Caban Chic In Tzoniabi 2 OcelotOcelotl
15 Eznab Chinax In Tizimbi 3 OatQuauhtli
16 Ca-uac Cahogh Inthihui 4 CozgacoatzCozcaquauhtli
17 Ajau period of years Aghual Inixotzini 5 OlinOllin
18 Imix maize? Mox Inichini 6 TopecatTecpatl
19 Yk wind Ygh Ini Abi 7 QuiauvitQuiahuitl
20 Akbal Votan Intaniri 8 SochitXochitl

"The Calendar of the inhabitants of the independent kingdom of Mechoacan, who spoke the Tarasca language, appears to have been similar to that of the Mexicans; and the names of the days of their month as stated by Veytia, are inserted in the table. The names of the days of an ancient Mexican, or rather Toltec tribe, found in the province of Nicaragua, have also been inserted. This, as far as we know, is the extreme southeastern limit of the Mexican Calendar on the Pacific Ocean. That limit on the Atlantic or Gulf of Mexico may be traced as far as the islands opposite Cape Honduras (Herrera); beyond which the shores are still inhabited by the uncivilized Musquito Indians.

"The cycle of fifty-two years was also adopted in Yucatan, and the arrangement of the years was precisely the same as in that of Mexico, substituting only the names Khan, Muluc, Hix and Ca-uac, for Tochtli, Acatl, Tecpatl and Calli, as appears in the following table:

YUCATAN CYCLE OF 52 YEARS.
1st year. 14th year. 27th year. 40th year.
1 Khan Muluc Hix Ca-uac The Chiapan Cycle is also
similar, substituting for the
names Khan, Muluc, Hix,
Ca-uac, those of Votan,
Lembat, Be-en, Chinax.
2 Muluc Hix Ca-uac Khan
3 Hix Ca-uac Khan Muluc
4 Ca-uac Khan Muluc Hix
5 Khan Muluc Hix Ca-uac
6 Muluc Hix Ca-uac Khan
7 Hix Ca-uac Khan Muluc
8 Ca-uac Khan Muluc Hix
9 Khan Muluc Hix Ca-uac
10 Muluc Hix Ca-uac Khan
11 Hix Ca-uac Khan Muluc
12 Ca-uac Khan Muluc Hix
13 Kahn Muluc Hix Ca-uac

"But there was an essential difference respecting the series of the names and numerical characters of the days, as will appear by the following table, which shows the termination of the first year of the cycle, and the beginning of the next ensuing years.

Year 1 Khan 1st day of the year 1 Khan
1st of the Cycle 1st supplementary day 10 do.
2ddo. 11 Chiccan
3d do. 12 Kimi
4th do. 13 Manic
5th do. 1 Lamat
Year 2 Muluc 1st day of the year 2 Muluc
2d of the Cycle 1st supplementary day 11 Muluc
Last do. 2 Be-en
Year 3 Hix 1st day of the year 3 Hix
3d of the Cycle 1st supplementary day 12 do.
Last do. 3 Edznab
Year 4 Ca-uac 1st day of the year 4 Ca-uac
4th of the Cycle 1st supplementary day 13 do.
Last do. 4 Akbal
Year 5 Khan 1st day of the year 5 Khan
5th of the Cycle 1st supplementary day 1 do.
Last do. 5 Lamat

"Don J. P. Perez positively states, that the fundamental rule is never to interrupt either of the series of names or of days. Thus, inasmuch as the last supplementary day of the first year of the cycle (1 Khan) is 1 Lamat; and as, in the order of the days of the month, the day called "Muluc" immediately follows the day Lamat; the ensuing year 2 Muluc commences with the day 2 Muluc, in the same manner as the year 1 Khan commences with the day 1 Khan. It is the same with the other years; so that the first day of every year has the same name and numerical character as the year itself.

"Don J. P. Perez acknowledges that amongst the few mutilated remains of Indian manuscripts or paintings, he has not been able to discover any trace of an intercalation, either of one day every four years, or of thirteen days at the end of the cycle, though he presumes that they had indubitably either the one or the other.

"The Yucatan cycle of fifty-two years, differed in no other respect from that of the Mexicans. The combination of the two series of twenty and thirteen days is used in the same manner in both calendars for the purpose of distinguishing the days of the year.

"The Yucatecs differed materially from the Mexicans with regard to the time of the solar year, when their year began. Don J. P. Perez informs us, that the first day of the Yucatan year corresponded with the sixteenth day of July; and that this was the day of the transit of the sun by the zenith of a place which he does not mention. But he adds that, for want of proper instruments, the Indians had made a mistake of forty-eight hours. In point of fact, it is in the latitude of about twenty-one degrees and a half that the transit of the sun by the zenith occurs on the 16th of July; and Yucatan lies between the latitudes of about eighteen degrees and a half and twenty-one degrees and a half. To commence the year on the day of the transit of the sun by the zenith, is attended with the great inconvenience, that this commencement must vary from place to place, according to their respective latitudes. As Don J. Pio Perez counts every year as having 365 days, and without regard to the omitted bissextile days, it is clear that the day in the Yucatan calendar, on which the transit of the sun by the zenith of any one place occurs, would vary twenty days, or a whole Indian month, in the course of eighty years. This would create such confusion that, if it be a well ascertained fact, that the Yucatan year began on the zenith day, this renders it highly probable that the calendar was, like that of the Mexicans, corrected by an intercalation of thirteen days at the end of the cycle.