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Imix Ik Akbal Kan Chicchan Cimi Manik Lamat Muluc Oc |
Chuen Eb Ben Ix Men Cib Caban Eznab Cauac Ahau |
In conformity with the universal practice just mentioned the Maya made the day, which they called kin, the primary unit of their calendar. There were twenty such units, named as in Table [I]; these followed each other in the order there shown. When Ahau, the last day in the list, had been reached, the count began anew with Imix, and thus repeated itself again and again without interruption, throughout time. It is important that the student should fix this
Maya conception of the rotation of days firmly in his mind at the outset, since all that is to follow depends upon the absolute continuity of this twenty-day sequence in endless repetition.
Fig. 16. The day signs in the inscriptions.
Fig. 17. The day signs in the codices.
The glyphs for these twenty days are shown in figures [16] and [17]. The forms in figure [16] are from the inscriptions and those in figure [17] from the codices. In several cases variants are given to facilitate identification. A study of the glyphs in these two figures shows on the whole a fairly close similarity between the forms for the same