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was invisible for four days ; they said he Avandered in the underworld, 

 and for four days more he was bone (dead, or emaciated?). Not 

 until eight days were past did the great star (the morning star) ap- 

 pear. They said that Qiietzalcoatl then ascended the throne as 

 god ".« 



This death of Qiietzalcoatl is said to have occurred in the year 

 " 1 reed" (ce Acatl). Hence the divinity of the morning star was 

 also called Ce Acatl, and was hieroglyphically designated by the 

 numeral 1 and the day sign Acatl, " reed ". 



We see the divinity of the morning star depicted with this name 

 and this hieroglyph in the tonalamatl, the calendar of 13X20 days. 

 He is there the lord of the ninth divison of 13 days, beginning with 

 ce Coatl, " 1 serpent ", and is represented opposite the fire god ; for 



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Fig. 93. God of the morning star and fire god, Mexican. 



the latter is the old god, Ueueteotl, who already existed in the j^eriod 

 of twilight when as yet no sun illumined the world. 



The picture of Tlauizcalpan tecutli, the divinity of the morning 

 star, as he is represented in the tonalamatl of Codices Telleriano- 

 Remensis and Vaticanus A. is given in «, figure 93. The white body 

 with red longitudinal stripes, and with the deep black painting about 

 the eyes, like a domino mask, which is bordered here, but not always, by 

 small white circles and is combined with a red painting about the lips, 

 which likewise inay be omitted, are characteristic marks of this god. 



" Anales de Qiiauhtitlan, printed in the appendix to v. 3 of the Anales del Miiseo 

 Nacional de Mexico. I regret to say that I have not been able to examine this important 

 manuscript. It seems to have disappeared. The copy in the Anales del Museo Nacional 

 de Mexico is very incorrect. In the passage in question, I have changed the obviously 

 corrupt and unintelligible " campa huilhuiti yn anio nez quitnaya ycua mictlan nemito" 

 into " ca naluiilhuitl ", for the words following, auh no nahuilhuitl momitl ("and for 

 four more days he was bone"), demand a preceding nahuilhuitl. 



