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of shutting oneself up for the purpose of fasting. When seclusion 

 was not actually accomplished, it seems to have been indicated by 

 a ring plaited of the stalks of the aztapilin, or aztopillin, a 

 variety of rush of a wliitish color below and green above (see /, 

 taken from the Borgian codex, wdiich represents the fasting person 

 blowing the conch and carrying a water jug on his shoulder within 

 an inclosure plaited of green and Avhite strips). In j)arallel pas- 

 sages of the Borgian codex and Codex Vaticauus B a man is draAvn. 

 inclosed in a chest, waving the thorn of castigation in one hand and 

 the green acxoyatl l)ush in the other. In corresponding passages of 

 the Codices Telleriano-Remensis and Vaticanus A Quetzalcoatl, the 

 god who was considered the inventor of castigation, a])pears armed 

 in similar fashion in a boxlike inclosure, consisting of Iavo parts. 



A head follows in division (plate vii), which, like that of Motel- 

 chiuh in division 8, wears the chieftain's hair dress (temillotl). The 

 explanatory note calls this Anauacatzin, that is, '' from the land by 

 the water '", '' from the seacoast ""." This name is hieroglyphically 

 represented here by a circle (island?) surrounded by water. In the 

 list of names of persons (Manuscrit Mexicain number 3, Bibliotheque 

 Nationale), already frequently quoted, Anauacatl occurs as the name 

 of a citizen of Almoj^auacan and is expressed by v, that is, by a 

 stream of water which is depicted before the mouth of a person, after 

 the fashion of the little tongue which signifies speech. For atl is 

 water and nahuatl clear, or intelligible, speech. I am unable to say 

 where the Anauacatl of our manuscript belongs. 



In division 10 follows a head with hair hanging straight down, 

 which is designated in the accompanying note as Xaxacjualtzin. 

 Xaqualoua means "to rub", and this action is represented in the 

 hieroglyph by Iavo hands using a sort of scouring brush. 



In the next division, 11, is another head with the chieftain's hair 

 dress (temillotl). The explanatory note calls it Cuetlachivitzin, 

 " wolf's feather ", and this is expressed in the hieroglyph by the head 

 of a wolf with tufts of down. In Chimalpahin's annals a Cuetla- 

 chiuitzin is mentioned who was installed as ruler of Tequanipan in 

 1561, and who died in 1572, but I am unable to say whether this is 

 the one referred to in our manuscript. I do not think it at all prob- 

 able, as there is nowhere in our manuscript an allusion to the region 

 of the Chalcas. 



In division 12 we have another head with hair hanging straight 

 down. The note calls it uitznauatl, A\hich is expressed in the hiero 

 glyph by the thorny point of an agave leaf (uitztli, " thorn ") 

 and the small tongue of speech in front of it (nauatl, " clear speech "). 



« I have sbown in the comptes rendus of the eighth session of the Congrfes International 

 des Aingricanistes, I'aris, ISOO, pp. 586, 5S7, tliat the word Anaiiac means tlie seacoast, an.cJ 

 that it is absurd to speal? of the plateau of Anahuac. 



