Notes on Certain Maya and Mexican Manuscripts / Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 3-66

by Cyrus Thomas

[32] Historia de las Indias de Nueva Espana, Mexico, 1880. Tom. II., pp 252-253.

[33] Trat^o. 3º Lam 1ª.

[34] Zeit. für Ethnologie, 1879.

[35] Anales Mus. Mex., I, Entrag. 7, p. 299.

[36] Monarq. Indiana, lib. X, cap. 36.

[37] Tom. 1, Entrag. 7, tom. II, and continued in tom. III.

[38] A fact mentioned by Leon y Gama (Dos Piedras, pt. I, p. 16), and Veytia (Hist. Antiq. Mej., tom. I, p. 58). See, also, Müller, Reisen, tom. III, p. 65, and Boturini, Idea, p. 125.

[39] I see from Charencey’s “Ages ou Soleils,” just received, that he concludes the arrangement by the Mexicans was as follows:

1. Tochtli	—	Rabbit	—	Blue	—	Earth	—	South.
2. Acatl	—	Cane	—	Red	—	Water	—	East.
3. Tecpatl	—	Flint	—	Yellow	—	Air	—	North.
4. Calli	—	House	—	Green	—	Fire	—	West.

[40] See note 39 on page 47.