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Borgian codex, corresponding to pages H and 76 of Codex Vaticanus 

 B, with the deity of the nineteenth day sign, h and c. Here is 

 apparently not a question of directly doing penance, but of pious 

 exercises in general, especially of fasting. I have copied these 

 l^ictures, first, because the figure of Codex Vaticanus B, page 3, c, 

 shows clearly a rope of grass by the ends of the braid which are cut 



Fig. 60. Drawing blood from the ears, and imxilements of castigation, from 

 Mexican codices. 



off below and terminate above in small floAver heads, after the manner 

 of the malinalli, and secondly, because this rojae of grass recurs in 

 Mexican picture writings, to wit, as a symbol for " fasting " in the 

 hieroglyphs of the kings Nezahualcoyotl, " the fasting prairie wolf '', 

 and Nezahualpilli, " the fasting prince ", of Tetzcoco, as they are 

 depicted in the Codex Telleriano-Kemensis, <] and e. 



