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The four directions

East, north, west and south, each with its own sign in Maya writing. Förstemann found them throughout the Dresden almanacs, taken in turn as a count moves on.

Offerings for the Rain God (Dresden Codex, Pages 33 and 35)

Dresden Codex, pages 33 and 35: almanacs of the god B, with offerings, fishing and the serpent in the water (Yucatán, before the Spanish conquest) · painted in Yucatán, probably in the century before the Spanish conquest

33b.1

south · Xul · head with Akbal eye · B–east · [?] · A?

The south · the end · the beginning · god B, joined to the east · [unread] · perhaps the death god