[30] Camargo (in Nouv. An. d. Voy. xcix.), pp. 134-5.
[31] Bancroft, Vol. II. pp. 204-206, Vol. III. pp. 435-436; Torquemada, Lib. ix. capp. xiv. xv.; Sahagun, Tom. I. pp. 227-8 (last section of Appendix to Lib. ii.); Acosta, Lib. v. cap. xvi.; Clavigero, Lib. vi. capp. xvi. xxii.
[32] See the "Cuadro historico-geroglifico," &c., contributed by Don José Fernando Ramirez (curator of the national Museum at Mexico) to Garcia y Cubas, "Altas geographico, estadistico e historico de la Republica Mexicana," Entrega 29a (1858).
[33] On all that concerns the Mexican cosmogonies, see Müller, pp. 477 sq., 509—519; Bancroft, Vol. III. pp. 57—65; Ixtlilxochitl, "Historia Chichimeca," capp. i. ii.; Kingsborough, "Mexican Antiquities," Vol. V. pp. 164-167; Humboldt, pp. 202—211.
[34] See Sahagun, Tom. II. pp. 281—283, Lib. viii. cap. vi.
[35] The sacerdotal year was lunar. The civil year, which was doubtless of later origin, and had been adopted as better suited to the purposes of agriculture, was solar. Every thirteenth year the two coincided. The number four, which plays an important part in Mexican symbolism (cf. the Mexican cross) gave a kind of cosmic significance to 13 × 4 = 52.
[36] See Bancroft, Vol. III. pp. 393-396.
[37] Compare the Appendix to Jourdanet's translation of Bernal Diaz, pp. 912 sqq.
[38] On the conversion of the Mexicans, &c., compare the anonymous treatise at the end of Kingsborough's "Mexican Antiquities," Vol. IX. Cf. also Torquemada, Lib. xvii. cap. xx., Lib. xix. cap. xxix.
[39] See P. Pauke, "Reise in d. Missionen von Paraguay:" Vienna, 1829, p. 111.