Notes on Certain Maya and Mexican Manuscripts - Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 3-66

A number of typographical errors have been maintained in the current version of this book. They are marked and the corrected text is shown in the popup. A list of these errors is found at the end of this book. Having recently come into possession of Leon de Rosnys late work entitled Les Documents ecrits de lAntiquite Americaine,1 I find in it a photo-lithographic copy of two plates (or rather one plate, for the two are but parts of one) of the Maya Manuscript known as the Codex Cortesianus. This plate (I shall speak of the two as one) is of so much importance in the study of the Central American symbols and calendar systems that I deem it worthy of special notice; more particularly so as it furnishes a connecting link between the Maya and Mexican symbols and calendars. This plate (Nos. 8 and 9 in Rosnys work), is entitled by Rosny Tableau des Bacab or Plate of the Bacabs, he supposing it to be a representation of the gods of the four cardinal points, an opinion I believe to be well founded. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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