Since the intention was to close this section on the next page, the space had to be used as economically as possible, and instead of the six pictures to be expected, there is only one and that is the first. It is a woman in whom I observe nothing characteristic except that she has a kind of cloak, which has fallen down over the lower part of her body, and who therefore remains unexplained.
Pages 22a—23a.
| II | II | II | II | 2 | IV | 8 | XII | 7 | VI | 10 | III | 12 | II | |||
| Men | Cib | Caban | Ezanab | |||||||||||||
| Chuen | Eb | Ben | Ix | |||||||||||||
| Manik | Lamat | Muluc | Oc | |||||||||||||
| Akbal | Kan | Chicchan | Cimi | |||||||||||||
| Cauac | Ahau | Imix | Ik. | |||||||||||||
The Tonalamatl is no doubt to be read in this way after the correction of a few inaccuracies in the Manuscript.
The 20 days, all of which occur again here as on pages 16a-17a, should be read from the right top to the left bottom, since they form but one series.
As a matter of fact Ezanab is distant 19 days from the future Caban, but 39 days distant from the desired weekday of the same name (see my "Erläuterungen," p. 24). Thus we have here a period of 20 × 39 days = 780, i.e., a three-fold Tonalamatl. The three Tonalamatls represented on the pages between the preceding passage (pages 16a-17a), where all the 20 days appear, and this, are of three different kinds (5 × 52, 4 × 65, and 10 × 26). This in itself is very remarkable. Furthermore a fourth kind of Tonalamatl seems to be introduced here, which embraces, as it were, these three Tonalamatls.
The hieroglyphs, which are mostly destroyed, were arranged in groups of four for each subdivision, in the following order:—
| II | II | II | II | |||
| 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 17 | |
| 3 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 18 | |
| 7 | 11 | 15 | 19 | |||
| 8 | 12 | 16 | 20 | . | ||
Of the above the third hieroglyph of each group, i.e., 7, 11, 15, 19 (probably also 3) is always the same and is the sign of D, the moon and night-god. In detail we should expect to find five pictures here, but owing to lack of space only the first of these is given. It represents a deity with a Kan sign in its hand and a serpent on its head, who is probably E, and he is falling down here in exactly the same manner as the four deities on page 15 at the beginning of this section.