26 MAYA AND MEXICAN MANUSCRIPTS. 



Comparing these columns with the symbols around each one of these 

 large figures we find that to each one of the latter are assigned the days of 

 one of these four columns. In the lower left-hand square, to the large 

 green figure, those in column 1 ; thus, at the left foot, the Dragon ; to the 

 back of the head, the Snake ; to the eye, Cane ; in the right hand, 

 Water; and below the elbow, but connected with the mouth, Ollin or 

 movement (sometimes translated earthquake). To the yellow figure, in 

 the lower right-hand square, are applied those of the second column ; to 

 the black figure, in the upper right-hand square, those of the third 

 column ; and to the red figure, iii the upper left-hand square, those of the 

 fourth column. There is therefore scarcely any doubt that this arrange- 

 ment is for precisely the same purpose as that in the plate of the Codex 

 Cortesianus. 



As proof that the Mexicans used these combinations in much the same 

 way as the Maya priests I call attention to the following examples : 



On Plate 59, of the same (Borgian) Codex, we find two columns of 

 days, one on the right and the other on the left, as follows : 



Left column. 'Bight column. 



Tochtli. Quauhtli. 



Ehecatl. Atl. 



Cozcaquauhtli. Calli. 



Itzquiutli. Ollin. 



Cuetzpalin. Ozomatli. 



Tecpatl. Coatl. 



Maliualli. Quiahuitl. 



Miquiztli. Acatl. 



Xochitl. Mazatl. 



Ocelotl. Cipactli. 



Comparing these with the names in the four columns (Table XI), we 

 find that those on the left were taken alternately from columns 4 and 2, 

 and those on the right alternately from columus 3 and 1. On Plates 

 61 and 62 we find substantially the same arrangement, or at least the 

 same idea as the extract from Codex Peresiauus, heretofore referred to. 

 On these two plates (embracing all of 61, and the lower left-hand square 

 of 62) we find five squares, each one bordered on two sides with the 

 symbol of a single day repeated thirteen times and accompanied by 

 numeral signs. 



Commencing with the square on page 62, where the repeated day 

 symbol is Cipactli, and reading the line from left to right and up the 

 column, we find the numbers to be as follows, filling out the effaced 

 ones in the line : 



Cipactli, 1, 8, 2, 9, 3, 10, 4, 11, 5, 12, 6, 13, 7 (the symbol being re- 

 peated with each number.) 



