[Aztlan] Skyband

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Ref.Message 3, Vol.40, Issue 15

Skyband

The Madrid p.12b-18b is an extenso calendar, containing 5 eclipses. 

On p.12b, 2 eclipses are depicted, 3 Chichan 16 Pax or 5 Nov.924 and 3 Oc 8
Tzec or 22 March 926.

This extensor calendar marks the beginning of a New Year or Haab on 5 Caban
0 Pop or 24 Dec.924. New Year's Day felt on 10.4.16.2.18, 6 Etznab 1 Pop or
25 Dec.924, between 13 Eb and 1 Cimi of the 1st sequence.

2/3 of page 12b is marked by a rainy scene with the rain God Chaak and a
snake crossing the picture. Rain is pouring down from heaven or from the
skyband and of the 2 eclipses.

Round the neck of Chaak hangs an incense bag.

Above the 2 figures is a skyband and above that 2 glyphs (T326, 544) which
marks the 2 eclipses.

The skyband contains 4 glyphs. It begins with the kin glyph or the sun glyph
and it ends with the night glyph, Akbal (T504). As the Milky Way (the cross
band glyph) and the other stars (or planets, like Venus T510b) only could be
seen during the night, than the skyband is nothing else than a picture of
the endless turning over of day and night.

This period of 2 eclipses was marked as a rainy period that is why at the
left side of page 12b an offering scene is depicted. The 1st glyph cannot be
recognized. The 2nd is a turtle bread or tortilla (T839,506,506) and the ki
(T102). The 3rd is a bounded jaguar. The 4th is a scale with 3 tortillas
(T506), an iguana bread (T652) and the glyph cha (T668).

This icocographic picture is similar to the p.25 to 28 of the Dresden Codex.


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