[41] By “air” in this connection “wind” is really intended.
[42] Kingsborough, vol. VI, pp. 196, 197.
[43] See also Chavero’s statement to the same purpose, Anales Mus. Mes., tom. 11, entrag. 4, p. 244.
[44] l. c. See also the colored wheel in Kingsborough, Mex. Antiq., Vol. IV. Copied from one in Boturini’s collection, the same as Gemelli’s.
[45] l. c.
[46] Y acabados los cincuenta y dos años tornaba la cuenta á cetochliacatl, que es la caña figura dedicada al oriente que llamaban tlapcopcopa, y tlavilcopa, casihacia la lumbre, ó al sol.
[47] See the various views presented by Chavero, Anales Mus. Mex. Tom. II Entrag. 2, and authorities referred to by Bancroft, Native Races, II. p. 504, note 3.
[48] Kingsburough, Mex. Antiq., Vol. III.
[49] Dr. Brinton, “The Maya Chronicles,” p. 53, informs us that “the division of the katuns was on the principle of the Belran system of numeration, as xel u ca katun, ‘thirty years;’ xel u yox katun, ‘fifty years.’ Literally these expressions are, ‘dividing the second katun,’ ‘dividing the third katun,’ xel meaning to cut in pieces, to divide as with a knife.” This appears to be the idea intended in the figure of the Cortesian plate.
[50] P. 281, pl. 69.