This has led to the insertion of a number of katuns which I think it evident do not properly come into the count.
This is the order of the Katuns since the four Katuns during which the Tutulxiu left their home and country Nonoual to the west of Zuiua, and went from the land and city of Tula, having agreed together to this effect.
Each of these ahaus or chiefs of the Katuns was represented in the native calendars by the picture or portrait of a particular personage who in some way was identified with the Katun, and his name was given to it.
It does not appear to aim at a connected history of events, but in the form of a chant to refer certain incidents to the katuns in which they occurred.
The division of the katuns was on the principle of the Beltran system of numeration (see page 40), as, xel u ca katun, thirty years.
I have also inserted the katuns which were omitted by the native chroniclers, but which, according to that sequence, are necessary in order to complete their records in accordance with the theory of the Maya calendar.
Cauac 2 Zac In each of the above examples, as we have seen, there was a date which ended one of the katuns of Cycle 9, although this fact was not recorded in connection with either.
By applying the above rule, all of the coefficients of the ending days of the katuns could be shown to follow the sequence indicated in Table IX.
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.
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.
In the inscriptions the katunsare numbered from 0 to 19, using Goodman's method though not his exact nomenclature, and twenty of them equal one cycle.
Sr Perez has indeed made this assertion,[2] but he rests his opinion to a great degree on the fact that the naming of the katuns proceeded in the following order, taking their names from the day Ahau with which they began, viz.
In the Chilan Balam books, the katuns are named as Katun 13 Ahau, Katun 11 Ahau, etc.
The chapter may be historical in contents, but the presence of this numeral Ahau-series clearly relates these pages to successive katuns in some way, whatever other bearings they may have.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "katuns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
