Madrid Codex: 34a-37a Frame: 2

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Almanac: 34a-37a Frame: 2

M. 35a (see “a” above): Like M. 34a, this scene is separated from the lower register by a skyband, which includes the following glyphs: a blackened cross, an unidentified grapheme, T1016c (a reference to north?), the T552 (k’at) cross, and T504 (ak’b’al ‘night’). The right of the page is dominated by a deity figure (God P, an aspect of Pawahtun) who holds a digging stick with one hand and plants seeds with the other. He wears a headdress that contains two triangular elements flanked by what appear to be wings or hands, and has a jaguar tail around his waist. His headdress is similar in some respects to the one worn by God P on M. 5b. In front of the black figure is a vessel resting on a serpent base which is filled with three T506 (wah ‘tortilla’) glyphs and sprouting maize foliage. The scene on the left includes a red-painted figure whose arms and legs are bound. He is shown in a diving position, falling onto some type of structure. Blood pours from his chest, and he has a closed eye, suggesting that he is dead. A second diving figure appears in the air above the captive. This is the maize god Nal, who has feathers on his arms. To the right of this figure and adjacent to God P are a series of bar-and-dot numbers and what appear to be month names. They include a black coefficient of 5 paired with T17 (the month Yax), a red? coefficient of 2 paired with T504:528.136 (the day Ak’b’al, the tun ‘year’ glyph, and the syllable /hi/), and a red? coefficient of 5 which is partially eroded, as is the glyph which should follow. Drawing after Villacorta C. and Villacorta (1976:294).

Themes

agriculture -- planting
sacrifice -- pyramid sacrifice
bleeding
descending
offering in vessel -- tortillas
sprouting maize/plants
ritual accoutrements -- jaguar tail
yearbearer
astronomical -- skyband
directional association -- north

Hieroglyphic Text

caption 1: wuk-lahka'-pop (07 Pop, 12 Pop)
caption 2: o-hu'un?-ya//k'uh-k'in-na-ya//chaak?/cha-ki//nohol-ki (The yellow god Chaak ?? [in the] south. OR Yellow Man Chaak ?? [in the] south.)
caption 3: ta-ak'b'al-la//lahun-kisin-hi//k'ul-k'ab'a'//k'awil//pa-wah-k'in-??//ko-ak'b'al (In the night?; 10 Kisin [is his] holy name; K'awil [is the] Pawahk'in?; the night enters?.)
caption 4: te'/che'-??//wuk-nal-ha'/b'a-hi//ha'ab'/tun-na//sak?-??-??-chi//ha'ab'/tun-na-hi//??-yu-nal-la (?? 07 water place; year; white? ?? year; ?? place.)
caption 5: tz'ak-ki-ka//hu-??-tal?-ka//sak-kab'-hi//ti'/ti-??-na (It changes to ??, white earth, ??.)
caption 6: b'olon-wuk-nal?//tu-u//ha'/b'a-??-ha'/b'a//hi-wah//hi-winik/winal-u//u-kimi(l)-u-la? (09, 07 place? ?? ?? tortilla, the man?, the dead person.)
caption 7: i?-??//i-chi//??-le/me?//??-ha'ab'/tun//nal-winik-le/me?-hi//??-??-wah-??//pa-??-k'in//lob'?-winik-??-ya (?? ?? ??; ?? year ?? place/maize ?? tortilla ?? Pawahk’in? bad? person?)
caption 8: ox-k'in-na//k'in-muyal//k'uh//ah?-kimi(l)-la//??-wah-ha'/b'a//i?-??-??//??-wah-ha'/b'a//b'a?-??-kimi(l)?-?? (03 days, yellow cloud god, dead person; abundance of? food and drink, ??; abundance of? food and drink; ?? dead person.)
caption 9: u-itzamna//??-ak'b'al//hu-??-le/me?//b'a-ta//nohol?//kab'-b'a-nal?-na-??//nohol?//nohol (The Itzamna ??; ?? arrived?; [in the] south [is the] maize land?; [in the] south, the south.)

Iconography

deity: God P (Pawahtun)
object: digging stick
object: seeds
animal: serpent
object: vessel
glyph: tortillas? (T506.506.506)
object: foliation
human or deity: sacrificial victim
object: rope
object: pyramid
deity: Nal
number: 5
glyph: Yax? (T17:?)
number: 2
glyph: T504:528.136
number: 5?
glyph?: eroded
object: skyband
glyph: unident.
glyph: unident.
glyph: K'uh (T1016c)
glyph: crossed bands (T552)
glyph: "ak'b'al" 'night, darkness' (T504)

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