Mayan Nomenclature

Mayan NomenclatureIt has long been well known that the Mexican numeration is vigesimal, and, as far as...
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Author: Bowditch, Charles P. (Charles Pickering),1842-1921
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Mayan Nomenclature

Mayan Nomenclature

€6,26

Mayan Nomenclature

€6,26
Author: Bowditch, Charles P. (Charles Pickering),1842-1921
Format: eBook
Language: English

Mayan Nomenclature

It has long been well known that the Mexican numeration is vigesimal, and, as far as I know, there is no proof that it was ever used in the calculation of long reaches of time. The Cakchiquel numeration is also vigesimal, and Brinton states (Maya Chronicles, p. 44) that the Maya numeration is also vigesimal, giving And this system is, as far as we know, used for nothing else but for reckoning days. The only difference between the first system and the second is that in the first system twenty of the second term equal one of the third, while in the second system eighteen of the second equal one of the third. This difference is, of course, essential, and it seems most probable that the change was introduced in order to bring the third term as near the length of the year as possible, and to conform the day numeration to the number of days and months in the year. Professor Cyrus Thomas is unwilling to see in this anything more than the counters by which to count the days, and denies to it the name of a calendar; but as the system of day numeration is[Pg 2] different from the usual system, and is used only for counting days, and as this system counts forward in almost every case in the inscriptions, and in a majority of cases in the Dresden Codex, from a fixed date, 4 Ahau 8 Cumhu, it seems impossible to see any difference between it and a calendar system. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 67879
Author: Bowditch, Charles P. (Charles Pickering)
Release Date: Apr 20, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge The University Press
Publication Date: 1906
Publisher Country: UK

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