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one of which is combined with the numeral 1 and the other with the 

 numeral 5. The five dates with the numeral 1 and the five with 

 the numeral 5 are just 51 days apart. And these five times 51 inter- 

 mediate days are marked on the sheet by small circles in the circum- 

 ference of the five divisions. Here we find a male and a female deity 

 placed opposite to each other in the first (upper rioht) division, wliich 

 is shown to belong to the region of the east by the drawing of the 

 heavens with the image of the sun upon it and, moreover, by a rising 



Fig. !>: Mexican shields. 



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sun {h, figure 8). Beside the latter stands ce Mazatl ("one deer"), as 

 the name hieroglyph of the day. Beside the former {c, figure 8) as name 

 hieroglyph of the day is macuilli Cuetzpalin ("five lizard''). The 

 former god, whom I must take, for various reasons, to be the same as 

 Xolotl in the Borgian codex, page 29 (a, figure 9), wears on his left arm 

 a shield, which has a hand as its emblem, and the ends of his loin cUjth 

 are also painted with large black hands. Xolotl is a figuic wliich orig- 

 inated in southern regions,and may possibly represent Hrc rushingdown 

 from heaven or light flaming up in the heavens. In the manuscripts 

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