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29 their dates and made their prophecies by the aid of this computation (of 20 years) was arrived at by having two idols, dedicated to two of these characters (Ahaues). To the first idol, which stands with a cross marked above the circle, they paid homage by making him offerings and sacrifices, in order to obtain an immunity from the calamities to come in these 20 years, but after ten of these years had passed they offered nothing but incense and worship. When the twenty years of the first were fully passed they began to

AHAU KATUN.

[Above we give a reproduction of a Maya Ahau Katun wheel taken from that in Landa's "Las cosàs de Yucatan," § XL., in order that his explanation may be understood].