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11. CtUininina pipiltotontzin It shoots the little children. 



12. Auh yntla cem Acatl And in the (fifth) sign, " 1 reed". 



13. Quinmina tlatoqiie It shoots the kings. 



14. Mochl yuhqui yntla ce Miquiztli Also in the (sixth) sign, "l death". 



15. Auh yntla ce Quiynhiiitl And in the (seventh) sign, "1 rain". 



16. Qniminaya quiahnitl It shoots the rain. 



17. Amo (£niyahni.: It will not rain. 



18. Anh yntla ce Olin Andin the (thirteenth ) sign." 1 movement"'. 



19. Qninniina telpopoclitin ychpopoch- 



tin It shoots the youths and maidens. 



20. Auh yntla ce Atl And in the (seventeenth) sign. " 1 water". 



21. Ye tohuaquiz There is universal drought. 



I would observe that the I'eprint of the text of these annals is 

 unfortunately very faulty. I have, therefore, had to make a few 

 slight corrections, in the ninth line substituting ce Mazatl for ce 

 Mecatl. and in the twelfth ceni Acatl for ce Mazatl. The order of 

 the signs in the tonalaniatl justifies these corrections. I ^vould like, 

 however, to make a third and more important change. I Avould like 

 to replace ce Quiyahuitl. in the fifteenth line, with ce Coatl, " 1 

 snake " ; that is, the ninth sign for the seventh. I believe this would 

 be correct, because the introductory auh, " and ", is used elsewhere in 

 this passage only with the signs of the column Cipactli, Acatl, Coatl, 

 Ollin, and Atl, and by wrong reading Quiauitl may very easih^ have 

 been substituted for Coatl. 



Let us admit this change, and let us for the present leave out what 

 is said at the signs ce Mazatl and ce Xochitl (lines 9 to 11) ; then we 

 have left the five signs of the column Cipactli, Acatl, Coatl, Ollin, 

 and Atl, which, as we have seen, are in fact the signs ruling the initial 

 days of the Venus periods. If we arrange them according to their 

 true order, not as they follow one another in the tonalamatl, then, in 

 the Anales de Quauhtitlan, the following would be said of the influ- 

 ence of the planet Venus in its five consecutive periods: 



1. In the (first) sign, Cipactli, "alligator", it shoots the old men and women. 



2. In the (ninth) sign, Coatl, " snake", it shoots the rain, it will not rain. 

 .3. In the (seventeenth) sign, Atl, "water", there is universal drought. 



4. In the ^fifth) sign, Acatl, "reed", it shoots the kings. 



."». In the (thirteenth) sign, Olin, "movement", it shoots the youths and 

 maidens. 



Here it will be seen at once that as far as the fourth and fifth 

 l)eriods are concerned the statements of the Anales de Quauhtitlan 

 exactly agree with the pictorial representations of the Borgian codex. 

 In the Tiorgian codex, too, we have in the fourth period (//, figure 

 100) royalty struck by the spear, and in the fifth (/, figure 100) the 

 warriors. The young men (telpochtin) and the w-arriors (quauhtin) 

 are essentially, and in the usage of speech, at least in that of Mexico, 

 identical. In the third period as Avell there is exact agreement 

 lietween the accounts of the Anales and the representations of the 

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