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Page One, Image One: Paris Codex, Pages 15-20. Public domain; image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Bibliothèque Nacionale de France.

Page Two, Image One: Madrid Codex, Page 34. Public domain; image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Museo de América.

Page Two, Image Two: Paris Codex, Pages 23-24. Public domain; image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Bibliothèque Nacionale de France.

Page Two, Image Three: Dresden Codex (Page 43, Detail). Public domain; image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Saxon State Library. 

Page Two, Image Four: Dresden Codex (Page 49, Detail). Public domain; image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Saxon State Library. 

Page Three, Image One: Morales, Patricia Martin. Tzolk'in Cycle Painting. Retrieved from The Calendar System, Living Maya Time, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. URL: https://maya.nmai.si.edu/calendar/calendar-system. 

Page Three, Image Two: Paris Codex, Pages 19-20. Public domain; image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Bibliothèque Nacionale de France.

Page Three, Image Three: Madrid Codex, Pages 75-76. Public domain; image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Museo de América.

Page Three, Image Four: Dresden Codex (Page 56, Detail). Public domain; image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Saxon State Library. 

Page Four, Image One: Madrid Codex, Page 34, Detail. Public domain; image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Museo de América. 

 

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Marhenke, Randa. “Maya Hieroglyphic Writing: The Ancient Maya Codices.” Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI). 2003, 2012. http://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/codices/marhenke.html.

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Severin, Gregory M. “The Paris Codex: Decoding an Astronomical Ephemeris.” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 71, no. 5 (1981): 1-101. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1006397?seq=1. 

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Špotak, Jakub. “Year-Bearers in the Paris Codex: A Description of Iconographic and Calendrical Elements.” Faculty of Arts of Comenius University. Axis Mundi. https://fphil.uniba.sk/fileadmin/fif/katedry_pracoviska/kpr/axismundi/AxisMundi_2014_1_studia_Spotak.pdf.

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Wells, Brian. “The Venus Table of the Dresden Codex and the Movements of the Planet Venus.” The Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 85, no. 6 (1991): 291-315. https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1991JRASC..85..291W/0000291.000.html.