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groups of the two other nunuiscripts is plain without further descrip- 

 tion. Here, in the first division, the principal figure is white with 

 j^trijDes; in the others it is green, yelloAV, brown, and blue. The 

 forms struck by the spear correspond to those of the other manu- 

 scripts, but the order is here again somewhat different. 



In h I have reproduced all the day signs which are to be seen with 

 the figure of the first division, and wdiich in the Borgian codex are 

 set down in exactly the same way in the first division beside c. They 

 are the sign Cipactli repeated thirteen times, with thirteen different 

 numerals. In the second division we have the sign Coatl, " ser- 

 j)ent ", instead of Cipactli ; in the third, Atl, " water " ; in the fourth, 

 Acatl, " reed " ; and in the fifth, Ollin, " movement " ; that is to say, 

 the five signs, already named above, which fall on the initial days 

 of the Venus periods when the first period begins with the first day of 

 the tonalamatl. There are three other signs in the body of each 

 page of the Borgian and Vatican codices, those which connect the 

 respective sign with the next one of the five. In h the signs Ehecatl, 

 " Avind " ; Calli, " house ■', and Cuetzpalin, " lizard ", fill up the space 

 between Cipactli and Coatl. The series of day signs accompanying 

 the figures on the pages of the Bologna codex is somewhat differ- 

 ently formed. Here the tAventy day signs are depicted, with their 

 numerals, as they follow each other from the first day of the tonala- 

 matl to the twentieth. The five signs, Cipactli, Coatl, Atl, Acatl, 

 Ollin, however, are placed out of rank, as they are not drawn with 

 the numerals belonging to them, but of larger size and with the 

 numeral 1. 



The dates set down on the five pages of the Vatican and Borgian 

 codices by means of numerals and signs are as follows: 



The above are the initial days of the 5X13 Venus periods which 

 together make up the long period mentioned above after the expira- 

 tion of which the initial day of the Venus period has again the same 

 numeral and the same sign. This long period is equivalent to a 

 double cycle of 2X52, or 104, solar A^ears, and contains the tonalamatl 

 146 times. These initial days, however, are not set down here in their 

 actual order of succession, but are rather tabulated as they would fol- 

 low one another in the tonalamatl. The true order is : 



