1888.] 617 [Phillips. 
to be of ancient origin, many of them anointed with human blood, it ap- 
pears that there was originally one god named Tonacatecli,’ who took for 
wife Tonacagiguatl, or as she is sometimes called Oachequacalt, who created | 
themselves, and were perpetual inhabitants of the thirteenth heaven ; i 
of whose creation and beginning likewise there is nothing known 
ie . except the fact that it also originated in the thirteenth heaven. Of this 
god and goddess were engendered four sons, the eldest was called Tlaclaw 
queteztzatlipuca,* whom the peoples of Quaxocingo and Tascala reverenced 
as their chief divinity under,the name of Camaatie,® and who was said to 
have been born of a ruddy color all over. They had a second son named 
| Yuyanque tezcatlipuca ; he who was the greatest and the worst, who over- | 
powered and bore sway over the other three, because he was born in the 
middle of all (wagio en medio de todos) ; he was totally black at birth. The 
third was called Quegalcoatl,* and for another name Yaguelicatl. To the 
fourth and the smallest they gave the appellation of Omitecilt,5 and Ma- | 
\ queecoatl, whom the Mexicans termed Vehilobi, because he was left-handed, | 
and looked upon him as their chief deity, because in the land from whence 
they came, he was so considered, and was more especially the god of war- 
fare than were the other divinities. Of these four sons of Tonacateclé and 
Tonacagigulatl (sic), Teecatlipuca was the one who knew all thoughts, and i 
was in all places and read all hearts, for which he was called Moyocoya,® | 
which is to say ‘‘the all-powerful,” according to which idea he is repre- 
sented in painting only as the air, by which name he isnot commonly known. 
Vehilodi,’ the younger brother, and god of the Mexicans, was born without Vf 
flesh (nacid sin carne), but only bones, in which condition he lived six 
hundred years, during which period of time the gods did nothing what- 
ever, the father as well as the sons, and in their representation there is no 
eae account taken of these six hundred years, counting them as they do from 
twenty to twenty, according to the sign which he holds, which stands for 
| twenty. These gods were known by these and many other names, accord- 
ing to how their attributes are understood, for each community called them 
differently by reason of their dialects, and so they were given diverse 
appellations, 
CHAPTER 2D. 
Of how the World was created and by whom. 
the sons of Tonacatecti, had passed away, they all four came together, and 
| said that it was good that they should arrange what they had to do, and the 
law they were to be governed by, and they all committed to Quezatcoatl and 
Vehilobi, the performance of this task, in pursuance of which they created, | 
under the orders and judgment of the others, the fire, and this being done 
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When the six hundred years after the birth of the four brethren-gods, 
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they made the half-sun, which, on account of not being entire, gave not 
much but only aslender light. Presently they created aman anda woman ; 
the man they called Vewmuco, and the woman Qipastonal,® and to them 
they gave command that they should till the ground, and that the woman 
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