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the present researches force us to the conchision that the Zapotec 

 country was more than a region of interchange; that it was the land in 

 which the Mexican calendar, a most important factor in our knowledge 

 of the Mexican races, had its origin. Indeed, among no otiier races 

 did the calendar and the determining of fate connected with it exert so 

 powerful an influence over all the relations of life as among the 

 Zapotecs. We can speak with greater confidence upon this point 

 when more is known of that Maya race bordering on the Zapotecs, 

 the Tzental-Zotzil of Chiapas. 



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