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fly as an image of fire. This is in :\ certain way in-ovctl l)y tlio itarticnlar form 

 which these radiant eyes assume on certain monuments of Mexican construction. 

 (See the account of tlie quanlixicalli. " djsh for sacrificial l)loo(l ", of the 

 National JNInseuni in the City of Mexico in my (Jesannnelte Al)han(llun;:en zm- 

 anierikanischen Sprach- und Alterthunislcinule, 10(14, volume 2. pa^e Nil.) lint 

 here, too, the coincidence ini.uht he explained in a different way — that is to say, 

 hy the supposition that the Mexicans by this form tried to transform the star 

 symbol, which, perhaps, was handed over to them by the astronomer-|)riests of 

 the eastern tribes, into a symbol more in accordance with Mexican thought and 

 Mexican pictorial style. As to the true meaning of tliese eyes and the faces 

 by which in fragments II to XI of our INIitla wall paintings the eyes are 

 replaced, it is an im]iortant fact that in fragment V the faces sui-rounded by 

 eyes, which are seen looking down from the sky, are painted with the quincunx, 

 the facial painting of the morning star. The interpretation I gave of the 

 border of which these eye-surrounded luminous faces form part, viz, that this 

 border represents the eastern sky, is proved b>- this to be true. 



13 (page 342, line 2). The plain on which the houses of the village of 

 Tepoxtlan are built is the bottom of a huge crater, the borders of which sur- 

 round the plain on the north and south sides of the village. 



14 (page 344, line 8). On my recent trip to Mexico, in October and Novem- 

 ber, 1904, I took the opportunity to visit Tepoxtlan, in order to make molds of 

 the sculptures that adorn the walls of the cella. I there assured myself that 

 the walls of the i)yramid are plainly visible from the village site, being dis- 

 tinguished by their white color from the surrounding mountain crest. 



15 (page 340, line 5). On visiting Tepoxtlan I saw that it is not a pictui'e of 

 the sun that is seen on the pillars walling the entrance to the cella, Iml the 

 lower part of a huge glyph of the chalchiuitl, or green precious stone. 



16 (page 3(>(j, line 20). I was mistaken in assuming that the day sign ("ipactli. 

 on page 25 of the Borgian codex, is placed beside the god C (figure 94 », who, 

 by the striped white body coloring and the deep black i)ainting around the 

 eyes, resembles Tlauizcaliian Tecutli," the divinity of the morning star. It 

 escaped my notice, when I first brought together the material handled in this 

 article, that on page 25 of the Borgian codex it is indicated by red lines in what 

 manner the day signs are to be connected witli their corresponding figures. 

 By these red lines the sign ('ipactli is appointed to the figure in the ujijier 

 corner on the right hand, who, by his long beard and general appearance, 

 resembles the god E (figure !>4). This god is consequently to be considered 

 as the representative of the east, and the figure resembling Tlauizcalpan 

 Tecutli, the divinity of the morning star, corresponds to the n(n'th. The latter 

 figure is, in fact, not the morning star represented in a special role. It is 

 an image of Mixcuatl, the god of the chase, the god of the Chichimecs, who 

 is not identical, it is true, with the morning star, but nuist be regarded as 

 very nearly related to him. I explained this more in detail in the revision of 

 this article, published in my Gesammelte Abhandlungen zur anierikanischen 

 Sprach- und Alterthumskund(>. 1002. volume 1. pages (518 to (UiT, and in the 

 first volume of my interpretation of the Borgian codex, 1004. pages 250 to 2t>5. 



IT (page 3(57, line 15). As 1 pointed put in the foregoing note, the god with 

 the heavy beard and eyebrows and the bicolored, half red. half black, face 

 painting, nuist be regarded as the lord of the first division, or the east: Xipe 

 Totec, consequently, as the lord of the third division, or the west, and Tlaloc 

 as the lord of the fourth division, or the south. 



18 (page 3(50, line 8). As to this point, too, I canu' recently to another inter- 

 pretatiou. I believe now — and I explained these figures in this way in 



