University of Oklahoma Press, 2002, p. 99.
9 Fuentes, Carlos. Myself with Others: Selected Essays. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988.
10 Duran, Fray Diego. Book of the Gods and Rites of the Ancient Calendar, trans. by Fernando Horcasitas and Doris Heyden. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971, p. xii.
11 Robertson, William. The History of America, 1777. Quoted in Tompkins, Peter, Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids. New York: Harper & Row, 1976, p. 40.
12 de Pauw, Cornelius. Recherches Philosophiques sur les Americains, 1769. Quoted in Tompkins, Peter, Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids. New York: Harper & Row, 1976, p. 42.
13 Porterfield, Kay Marie. “Ten Lies about Indigenous Science—How to Talk Back.” http://www.kporterfield.com/aicttw/articles/lies.ht ml. See also Porterfield, Kay Marie, and Emory Dean Keoke. The Encyclopedia of American Indian Contributions to the World: 15,000 Years of Invention and Innovation, which details more than 450 examples of indigenous science and independent innovation from the abacus to zucchini.
14 Stephens, John Lloyd. Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas & Yucatan. London: Century, 1988, p. 49.
15 Tompkins, Peter. Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids. New York: Harper & Row, 1976, pp. 166-167.
16 Woolley, Benjamin. The Queen’s Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee.
17 Salisbury, Jr., Stephen. The Mayas, the Sources of Their History: Dr. Le Plongeon in Yucatan, His Account of Discoveries. Worcester: Press of Charles Hamilton, 1877, p. 65.
18 Ibid., p. 65.
19 Coe, Michael. Breaking the Maya Code, revised edition, 1999, p. 138; Long, Richard. “Maya and Mexican Writing.” Maya Research 2 (1). New Orleans, 1935.
20 Coe, Michael. Breaking the Maya Code, revised edition, 1999, p. 138.
21 Graham, Ian. Alfred Maudslay and the Maya, A Biography. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002, p. 102.
22 Goodman, Joseph T. The Archaic Maya Inscriptions. Volume 5 of Maudslay, Alfred, Biologia Centrali-Americana, 1897, pp. ii-iv.
23 Ibid., p. iv.
24 Ibid., p. v.
25 Coe, Michael. Breaking the Maya Code, revised edition, 1999, p. 140.
26 Thompson, J. Eric S. Maya Hieroglyphic Writing: An Introduction. Publication 589, Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1950, p. 295. For essays exploring anagogical themes in world literature, see Strelka, Joseph P. Anagogic Qualities of Literature. University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1971.
27 Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces, second edition. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1968, p. 3.
28 Houston, Stephen. “Classic Maya Depictions of the Built Environment.” Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture, ed. Stephen Houston. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1998, p. 355; and discussion, pp. 348-363.
29 Thompson, J. Eric S. “A Correlation of the Mayan and European Calendars.” Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Series, 17(1):1-22, 1927, pp. 19-21. http://www.archive.org/details/correlationofmay 171thom.
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1 Malmstrom, Vincent. Cycles of the Sun, Mysteries of the Moon. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1997, p. 258.
2 Tedlock, Barbara. “The Road of Light: Theory and Practice of Mayan Skywatching.” The Sky in Mayan Literature, ed. by Anthony F. Aveni. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 18-42.
3 Wilber, Ken. No Boundary. Boston and London: Shambhala Publications, 1981.
4 Edmonson, Munro. Book of the Year: Middle American Calendrical Systems. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.
5 Coe, Michael. “Cycle 7 Monuments in Middle America: A Reconsideration.” American Anthropologist 59, 1957, p. 606.
6 Guernsey, Julia. Rituals & Power in Stone. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2006, p. 14.
7 Schele, Linda, Peter Mathews, and Floyd Lounsbury. “Redating the Hauberg Stela.” Texas Notes, No. 1, 1990. http://www.utmesoamerica.org/texas_notes/TN-01.pdf.
8 Rice, Prudence M. Maya Calendar Origins: Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materialization of Time. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2007.
9 Coe, Michael. The Maya. Great Britain: Thames & Hudson, 1966.
10 Malmstrom, Vincent. “Origin of the Mesoamerican 260-Day Calendar.” Science, 181, 1973, pp. 939-941.
11 Coe, Michael. Mexico, third edition, revised and enlarged. London: Thames & Hudson, 1988, p. 86.
12 Schieber de Lavarreda, Christa, and Miguel Orrego Corzo. Abaj Takalik. Guatemala City: Proyecto Nacional Tak-alik Ab’aj, Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, 2001, p. 37.
13 Rice, Prudence M. Maya Calendar Origins: Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materialization of Time. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2007.
14 These day-sign translations come from Dennis Tedlock, Breath on the Mirror. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994, pp. 233-234.
15 Freidel, David, Linda Schele, and Joy Parker. Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman’s Path. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1993, p. 67ff.
16 Jenkins, John Major. “The Equation of Maya Time,” in The Solstice-Galaxy Alignment in 2012. Denver, CO: Four Ahau Press, 2005.
17 Jenkins, John Major. “Katun Beginnings Which Conjunct Seasonal Quarters.” Tzolkin. Garberville, CA: Borderland Sciences Research Foundation, 1994, pp. 300- 301.
18 Schele, Linda, and David Freidel. Forest of Kings. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1990, p. 158.
19 Michael Grofe, personal communication: e-mail to me March 2009.
20 Milbrath, Susan. Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1999, p. 293.
21 Taube, Karl. “The Jade Hearth: Centrality, Rulership, and the Classic Maya Temple.” Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture, ed. by Stephen Houston. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1998, pp. 427-478.
22 Puleston, Dennis E. “An Epistemological Pathology and the Collapse, or Why the Maya Kept the Short Count.” Maya Archaeology and Ethnohistory, ed. by Norman Hammond and Gordon R. Willey. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1979, pp. 63-71.
23 Grofe, Michael John. The Serpent Series: Precession in the Maya Dresden
