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corner and the outer right-band corner as far a.s the inner right-hand 

 corner; and in the .same manner in the ciuadrant following jji the 

 direction opposite to the course of the hands of a clock, in which the 

 cardinal point h^ figure 1, is written, are recorded the days which 

 form the second quarter of the tonalamatl; and again in the third 

 quadrant, which contains the gl3'ph r, figure 1, is the third (juarter; 

 and in the last quadrant, with the gl3^ph d^ figure 1, the last quarter 

 of the tonalamatl. Since we know" that the four ({uarters of the 

 tonalamatl, beginning with 1 I, 1 VI, 1 XI, and 1 XVI, were respec- 



FiG. 2. Mexi(^n calendar whcL-l form. 



tively ascribed to the east, north, west, and south, this double page 

 from the Cortes codex is the strongest proof that Schultz-Sellack and 

 Leon de Kosny were right in referring the hieroglyphs </ to </, figure 1, 

 respectivel}' to the east, north, west, and south. 



In a and c, figure 1, is contained, in their lower half, an element whicli 

 is contained in the month name Yaxkin (/and /, tioure 1) and undoul)!- 

 edly denotes the sun (kin), the disk sending out lays of light to the 

 four cardinal points. In k and I this element is combined with 

 another, which also occurs in the glyph of the month name \iix 



