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■ volume 1 of my interpretation of the Borjiian codex — that the first two rows 

 of divinities are constructed with regard to the planet Venus as morning star, 

 and consequently refer to the east ; but that the two latter I'ows are constructed 

 with regard to the evening star, and refer to the west. The east is the region 

 of the warriors, that is, of the sacrificed; the west, that of the women. In 

 the first two regions we have, therefore, representations of sacrifice ; in the 

 latter two, representations referring to childbirth and nursing. The tearing 

 out of the yellow stripe ending in flowers and precious stones I am inclined to 

 consider now as a figurative expression of childbirth, since It is very common 

 in Mexican figurative speech to allude to a newly born child by the names of 

 precious feathers or precious stones. 



19 (page 309, last line). In conformity with the view expressed in the fore- 

 going note, I am now inclined to accept the nursing of the female deitie-i simply 

 as that which it is, i. e., the nursing of a child„ 



20 (page 371, line 25). I repeat that 1) and (/, figure 9.''>, as well as c and d, 

 figure 94, represent not the morning star himself but the morning star in his 

 special role of hunting god and war god; that is to say, the god Mixcuatl, or 

 Camaxtli. 



21 (page 389, line 25). I am now inclined to assume another correspondence 

 of these five spear-throwing gods with the five directions, supposing that each 

 of these divinities was allotted to the (luarter just opposite to that where lives 

 the demon at whom he throws the spear. On this supposition, the blaclc god 

 would occupy the region of the west, throwing his spear at the god of festivity 

 in the east; this black god, consequently, would correspond to the god Xipe of 

 page 25 of the Borgian codex. The red rain god of the second period, throwing 

 his spear at the jaguar in the north, would then own the region of the south and 

 corresi»ond to the rain god of the Borgian codex. The god with the animal face, 

 w^ho throws his spear at the maize god, that is, to the west, must correspondingly 

 belong to the east and be identified with the god with the heavy beard and 

 eyebrows and the bicolored, half red, half black, face who stands in the upper 

 right corner of the page in the Borgian codex. And the warrior with the face 

 painting resembling that of the Mexican Tezcatlipoca, who throws his spear 

 at the sun-bearer, the turtle, the symbol of the kings, must correspond to the 

 Chichimec god Mixcuatl of the Borgian codex, god of the north. The fifth and 

 last divinity is the god with the beady eyes, who, I said, must symbolize the 

 lower region, or the earth. He throw^s his spear at the warrior, that is, the 

 inhabitants of the upper world, of the heavens,- where the dead warriors go 

 (see my interpretation of the Borgian codex, 1904, volume 1, pages 327 to 330). 



