[27]. On these points I would refer the reader to my work, The Native Calendar of Central America and Mexico; A Study in Linguistics and Symbolism (Philadelphia, 1893).
[28]. Professor Cyrus Thomas, in his carefully written article, “The Maya Year,” in the Bulletins of the Bureau of Ethnology (Washington, 1894), has collected evidence that the same calendar system, based, he believes, on the year of 365 days, was used in Palenque, Menche (Lorillard City), and Tikal, as well as in the Cod. Dresdensis. That the Mayas had, at the time of the Conquest, long known the year of 365 days, was demonstrated from the Codices by Dr. Förstemann. (See his Erläuterungen zur Maya-Handschrift, Dresden, 1886, p. 21, and his “Die Zeitperioden der Mayas,” in Globus, January, 1892).
[29]. See especially his articles, Die Zeitperioden der Mayas, 1892, and his Zur Entzifferung der Maya-Handschriften, IV, 1894.
[30]. The grounds for this opinion are stated in his Zur Entzifferung, etc., No. II.
[31]. A. Pousse, in Archives de la Société Américaine de France, 1886, 1887.
[32]. In the American Anthropologist for July, 1893.
[33]. See her “Note on the Ancient Mexican Calendar System,” communicated to the Tenth International Congress of Americanists, Stockholm, 1894.
[34]. As the pages of the Codices are generally divided into compartments by transverse lines, the custom of students is to designate these from above downward by small letters added to the number of the page.
[35]. In American Anthropologist, July, 1893, p. 262.
[36]. “El lucero de la mañana, que parece hacer amanecer.” Dicc. de Motul.