It was the eleventh ahau katun in which it ended with those called Mayas.
It was the thirteenth katun in which they ruled, in which they took names, at that time, while they resided here; in the thirteenth the residence was continued, they resided here.
In the thirteenth ahau katun those called the Maya men founded the city Mayapan.
From a grotto in this glacier bursts tumultuously the Katun river.
From this lake issues the Biya, which joins the Katun at Biysk, and then meanders through the beautiful prairies of the north-west of the Altai.
The Katun valley begins as a wild gorge on the south-west slope of Byelukha; then, after a big bend, the river (400 m.
A blue, as on the possible katun number series on pages 23 and 24.
The completion of each Katun was regarded by the Mayas as a most critical and important epoch, and was celebrated with most imposing religious ceremonies.
In fact no other number of years than 24 for each Ahau Katunwill produce this order of numerals, which fact is perhaps the strongest argument in favor of Sr Perez' system.
A Maya manuscript furnished and translated by Perez is published by Stephens and in Landa's work, and repeatedly speaks of the Ahau Katun as a period of 20 years.
Sr Perez admits that other writers reckon the Ahau Katun as 20 years, but claims that they have fallen into error through disregarding the chek oc katun, or 4 unlucky years of the period.
In the "Series of Katuns from the Book of Chilam Balam of Mani" the date given is Katun 2 Ahau, whereas in that from Tizimin it is recorded as having taken place 180 years later.
The opening glyph in this panel may refer to the katun 8 Ahau.
Thus the number 2 of the katun means that 2 katuns have passed, and that the current katun is what we should call the third; and that 0.
Katun 13 Ahau is the nearest to an exact 6 tuns, we should throw back Copan to B.
But in the case before us the death of Ahpula is said to have taken place in the Katun 13 Ahau when six tuns or years of that katun remained unexpired.
In the Chilan Balam books, the katuns are named as Katun 13 Ahau, Katun 11 Ahau, etc.
Ahau katun as twenty years, and remarking that this date agrees much better than the earlier one with Ixtlilxochitl's chronology.
The head of the full figure, which represents the katun coefficient, shows the essential element of the head for 5, the tun headdress.
Consequently, each monument would have inscribed upon it only one or two {84} katun ending days and the events which were connected more or less closely with it.
One more example will suffice to illustrate the use ofkatun Period-ending dates.
The katun and its coefficient are represented in A2, the former by a grotesque bird, an eagle according to Mr. Bowditch, and the latter by another anthropomorphic figure.
The period glyph shows no essential element recognizable as such, and its identification as the katun sign therefore rests on its position, immediately following the cycle sign.
Therefore we may write the Initial-series number corresponding to the end of Katun 11, as 9.
The last glyph in the inscription is a Katun sign with the numeral 14 above it, and a sign for 'beginning' in front of it, and indicates that the last date is the beginning of a 14th Katun.
I must leave undetermined whether the 8 directly above the number and combined with Kin and the Katun sign refers only to the 8 Katuns or at the same time also to the 8 days from IV Ahau to XII Lamat.
It is possible that at some future time an indication of such a transition from one Katunto the other will be found in the writings.
As Landa tells us that they erected stelae to commemorate the 20-year period, the inference to which the Copan Stela F leads us is that it is a katun and that the twenty glyphs carved on it are year-signs.
The termkatun is closely linked to the said employment of memorial stones, for tun is the Maya for stone and ka seems to stand for kal or kaal=20.
In current speech katun signified era and when a person wished to say he was sixty years of age, he used the expression to have three eras of years or three stones.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "katun" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
