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follows: foi' the groups marked "first," Ix, and for those marked "second," 

 Gauac, and the order in which they succeed each other, as follows: 



lat. Ix, Cauac, Kan, Muluc. 



2d Cauac, Kan, Muluc, Ix. 



Th^ first agrees exactly with the order of the days referred to by 

 Plates '2^-28 of this Codex, and the second precisely with Plates XX- 

 XXIII of the Manuscript taken in reverse order to the paging. The first 

 also agrees exactly with the order in which the first four characters in the 

 second linp of the title page of the Manuscript come, if read from left to 

 right as thi numbers above them indicate. If we turn to Plate XXXII* of 

 the last-mentioned Manuscript^ we will see that the left-hand column of the 

 upper diyisipn consists of the four dominical days placed in the following 

 order, reading from the top downward: Ix, Cauac, Kan, Muluc, precisely in 

 the order of Ihe four plates of the Dresden Codex; we also find in the space 

 of this dirision the characters which I have supposed mark the cardinal 

 points, but placed as shown here. 



Laada, speaking of the ceremonies connected with the making of idols 

 of wood, reijiarks (p. 308) that "they offered incense to the four gods 

 called Acantmes, which they had placed at the four parts of the world" (the 

 four cariinal points). But these were of stone, as we have already learned 

 from th( extracts referring to the festivals of the supplemental days. 



In he lowest division of Plate XXV* there are four idols over which 

 are these four characters; the first, or left-hand one, is the headless figure 

 seen on Pilate XXIII, the character over it that which denotes the west; 

 the sec([iiq the spotted dog seen on Plates XX and XXI, the character over 

 it signijiis the north; the third a monkey, possibly the same as seen in the 

 lower dvision of Plate XXI, the character over it the east; the fourth a 

 bird, thecharacter over it the south. 



'Roaan numerals refer to the plates of the Manuscript ; Arabics to those of the Codex. 



