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A Maya calendar inscription, interpreted by Goodman's tables

1898; Royal Society; Volume: 62; Issue: 379-387 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1098/rspl.1897.0081

2053-9126

Alfred Percival Maudslay,

Latin American history and culture

Our knowledge of the Maya Calendar is chiefly derived from the writings (a.d. 1566) of Diego de Lauda, Bishop of Yucatan, who not only gave some account of the divisions of tim e in use among the Mayas, but also copied, somewhat roughly, in his m anuscript the signs employed to represent th e eighteen named months, and the twenty named days into which each month was divided. Our knowledge of the Maya Calendar is chiefly derived from the writings (a. d. 1566) of Diego de Lauda, Bishop of Yucatan, who not only gave some account of the divisions of time in use among the Mayas, but also copied, somewhat roughly, in his manuscript the signs employed to represent the eighteen named months, and the twenty named days into which each month was divided. Landa’s statem ents are, however, by no means clear, and there has been much discussion both as to their correctness in them selves and as to the interpretation which has been given to them; moreover, it has been found difficult in some instances to identify the day and month signs given by him with those used in the Dresden Codex and the few Maya manuscripts which have been preserved, and still more difficult to identify them with the signs used in the carved inscriptions.