THOMAS] NUMBERS IN THE MEXICAN CODICES 937 
The symbols of the days are shown 
in figure 23, which is a photo-en- 
graved copy from plates 51-52 of 
the Vatican codex B. The names 
in English of those in the four col- 
umns 8-11 as they stand in the fig- 
ure are as follow: 


Column 8 Column 9/ Column 10) Column 11 
Water Dog Monkey) Grass 
Movement) Flint Rain Flower 
Snake Death | Deer Rabbit 
Cane Tiger | Eagle Vulture 
Dragon Wind | House Lizard 





The symbol for water is oftener 
in the form shown in figure 24, and 
that for house in the form shown in 
figure 25. As the numerous plates 
of the codices to which reference 
will be made can not be copied here, 
these will enable the reader who is 
not already familiar with the sub- 
ject, but who has the codices (at least 
as given in Kingsborough) before 
him, to follow my references. As 
the names of the Mexican months 
will not be used in this paper, it is 
not necessary to give them here. 
We shall have occasion to note par- 
ticularly the direction in which the 
plates of the codices referred to are 
to be read, as the determination of 
this is the most important result 
obtained by an examination of the 
numerals, especially in cases where 
the order of the days fails us in this 
respect. 
As a rule which has few if any 
exceptions, numbers which refer to 
time counts in the Mexican codices 
are expressed by dots, or sometimes 
small circles, usually colored, and 
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