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the moon, which originally shone as brilliantly as the sun. 

 Strangely enough Dr. Seler points out this fact in his 

 description of the Codex Vaticanus, but makes no further 

 comment. 



In Aztec picture-writings the moon is figured — usually 

 as a nasal crescent of bone with a rabbit seated in a watery 

 field — beside the Goddess of Filth — the old Huaxtec 

 Earth Goddess. 



