MALLERY. ] COLORS OF CARDINAL POINTS. 625 
smoke was directed to them, next to the heavens, next to the earth, 
and then successively to the east, west, north, and south. The rather 
lame explanation was given that the east was for sunrise, the west for 
sunset, the north for cold country, and the south for warm country. 
The Count de Charencey, in Des Couleurs considérés comme sym- 
boles des Pointes de l’Horizon, etc., and in Ages ou Soleils, gives as 
the result of his studies that in Mexico and Central America the orig- 
inal systems were as follows: 
Quaternary system. Quinary system, 
East—Yellow. South—Blue. 
North—Black. East—Red. 
West—White. North—Yellow. 
South—Red. West—White. 
Center—Black. 
Mr. John Crawfurd (a) says: 
In Java the divisions of the horizon and the corresponding colors were named in 
the following order: first, white and the east; second, red and the south; third, 
yellow and the west; fourth, black and the north; and fifth, mixed colors and the 
focus or center. 
Boturini (a) gives the following arrangement of the “symbols of the 
four parts or angles of the world,” comparing it with that of Gemelli: 
Gemelli. Boturini. 
1. Tochtli—South. 1. Teepatl—South. 
2. Acatl—East. 2. Calli—East. 
3, Tecpatl—North. 3. Tochtli—North. 
4. Calli—West. 4. Acatl—West. 
SYMBOLS OF THE FOUR ELEMENTS. 
Gemelli. Boturini. 
1. Tochtli—Earth. 1. Teepatl—Fire. 
2. Acatl—Water. 2. Calli—Earth. 
3. Teepatl—Air. 3. Tochtli—Air. 
4. Calli—Fire. 4, Acatl—Water. 
Herrera (@) speaks only of the year symbols and colors, and, although 
he does not directly connect them, indicates his understanding in re- 
gard thereto by the order in which he mentions them: 
They divided the year into four signs, being four figures; the one of a house, 
another of a rabbit, the third of a cane, the fourth of a flint, and by them they 
reckoned the year as it passed on, * * * They painted a sunin the middle from 
which issued four lines or branches in a cross to the circumference of the wheel, and 
they turned so that they divided it into four parts and the circumference and each 
of them moved with its branch of the same color, which were four—green, blue, red, 
and yellow. 
From this statement Prof. Cyrus Thomas, in Notes on certain Maya 
and Mexican Manuscripts, Third Ann. Rep., Bureau of Ethnology, 
concludes that Herrera’s arrangement would presumably be as follows: 
Calli—Green. 
Tochtli—Blue. 
Acatl—Red. 
Tecepatl—Yellow. 
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