POST CONQUEST MAYAN LITERATURE - Famsi

Comparison of 11 xoc kin w~th the Madrld Codex, pages 103b-106b
The followmg materlal compares the bee almanac given on page? l03b-10Gb of
the Madrid Codex w~th the correspondmg days from 11 uoc kin Whlle the Madr~d IS
consistent In the opening statement for the prognort~cat~on for each set of days. glvlng the
phrase n pakal u cab ('he populates h ~s hive"), u xoc kin only has three mentlons of
honey, m the seventh e~gllt and twelfth rounds (uazak pach), and of these
prognostications only one states "u pakal 11 cab, but unfortunatelv w~thout stating who
1s domg the populating Th~s may be an example of the number of lncldences (I e 3 out
of 39) vvhich prognostlcatlons In 11 uoc kin correspond w~th prognortlcatlons in the
various hleroglyphlc codrces