In addition, the glyph representing the completion of a katun , a cycle of twenty solar years, is "the most complicated of the Maya quadripartite glyphs" and is similar in form to the flower symbol found at Teotihuacn "which may also refer to calendric completion."9 That these time-related figures have a spatial component is suggested by the various depictions of the ritual calendar found in such writings as the Mixtec Codex FejrvryMayer, the Yucatec Maya Madrid Codex, and the Book of Chilam Balam of Kaua , also from the Yucatn and dating from about the time of the Conquest.10 The Aztec calendar reproduced by Durn11 is a quincunx with the 52-year cycle "divided into four parts of thirteen years each, each part associated with a cardinal direction." The years progress in a counterclockwise, that is, sunwise, direction, and the figure is oriented, as always in Mesoamerica, with east, the place of birth or beginning, at the top
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