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four corners of the page and are colored differently (black, yellow, 

 blue, red) according- to the point of the compass and represented as 

 beneficial or injurious to the crops. A fifth figure of the rain god, 

 striped white and red, is added in the center to designate the fifth car- 

 dinal point, the center, or the direction from above downward; but 

 there are naturally no dates corresponding to those given with the 

 corner figures, since the four quarters suffice for the divisions of time. 

 Page 69 in Codex Vaticanus B (Kingsborough, page 28) corre- 

 sponds to this one of the Borgian codex. While, however. Codex 

 Vaticanus B is contented with this one page, in the Borgian codex 

 the page just described has a parallel representation placed in juxta- 

 position with it. In this also, page 28 of the Borgian codex (Kings- 

 borough, page 11), there are five figures of the rain god, four dis- 

 tributed at the corners and one in the center. They, too, are desig- 

 nated by the supplementary representations as beneficial or harmful 

 to the growth of the crops ; but there seems here to be no underlying 

 reason for the sequence of colors. The order, beginning with the east 

 and ending with the center, is black, white and red striped, yellow, 

 black again, and lastly red. There are dates with each of the five fig- 

 ures, three in each division, which, unfortunately, are partially 

 effaced. As far as they can be distinguished they are as follow : 



(East) Black rain god Year 1 Acatl Day 4 Ollin ? 



(North) White and red striped 



rain god 2 Tecpatl 5 Cipactli 10 Quianitl 



( West ) Yellow rain god 3 Calli 9 Atl 7 Coatl 



(South) Black rain god 4 Tochtli [3] Atl ? Coatl 



(Center) Red rain god 5 Acatl 1 Atl 13 Mazatl 



Five successive years, then, are specified on this page, and two days 

 are named in each. The day named in the first year in the first place 

 IS the day 4 (3nin, which, as explained above, is referred to in the 

 Dresden manuscript as the day on which the morning star disappears 

 in the rays of the rising sun, or when the morning star rises at the 

 same time as the sun. The day named in the fifth year in the first 

 place, the day 1 Atl, " 1 water ", is distant from the day 4 Ollin exactly 

 1,752 days, or three Venus periods. In connection with this it is 

 necessary to remember that, as is usual in the Borgian codex in the case 

 of all computations extending over a longer or shorter series of days, 

 1 Cipactli is set doAvn as the first day, and the 5 years on this page 

 are reckoned from 1 Cipactli, while the naming of the years, as 

 usual, begins with 1 Acatl. Here the day 1 Atl in the fifth year 

 again denotes the day on which the morning star rises at the same 

 time as the sun. Though I have not yet been able to discover a law 

 for the days lying between and coming after, and must assume for 

 the present that they are only connecting links, that indication from 



