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should spin and weave, and that of them should be born the Maceguales, 
and that they should find no pleasure, but should always be obliged to 
work ; to the woman the gods gave certain grains of maiz,® so that with 
them she should work cures, and should use divination and witchcraft, and 
so it is the custom of women to do to this very day. Then they created 
the days which they divided into months, giving to each month twenty 
days, of which they had eighteen, and three hundred and sixty days in 
the year, of which will be spoken subsequently. Then they created 
Mitlitlatteclet and Michitecagigiat, husband and wife, and these were 
the gods of the lower regions (infierno), in which they were placed; 
then the gods created the heavens below the thirteenth, and then they 
made the water and created in it a great fish similar to an alligator 
which they named @ipaqli, and from this fish they made the earth 
as shall be told; and to create the god and goddess of water, all the 
four divinities joined themselves together, and made Jalocatectli,” and 
his wife Chalchiutlique,!! whom they assigned to be the gods of water, 
to whom they betook themselves in prayer whenever it was needful. 
Of this god of water it was said that he had his dwelling of four apart- 
ments, in the middle of which was a large courtyard, where stood four 
large earthen pans full of water. In one of these pans the water was excel- 
lent, and from it the rain fell which nourished all manner of corn and 
seeds and grain, and which ripened things in good season ; from the 
second rained bad water from which fell cobwebs on the crops, and 
blight and mildew ensued; from another fell ice and sleet; when from 
the fourth rain fell nothing matured or dried. This god of rain water 
created many servants, small of body, who were in the rooms of the 
aforesaid house, and they held money boxes,” in which they aught 
the water from the great earthen pans, and various rods in the other hand ; 
and when the god of water sent them to irrigate any especial places, they 
started off with their boxes and sticks, and let fall the water where they 
were directed, and when it thunders the noise is caused by their striking 
the boxes with their rods, and when it lightens it comes from within these 
boxes. It is eighty years since Sefior de Chalco wished to sacrifice to these 
servants of the gods of water one of his hunchbacks 8 and took him to the 
Volcano, a very high mountain always covered with snow, fifteen leagues 
distant from the City of Mexico, and placed the humpback inside of a 
cave of which the entrance was closed up, and from lack of food 
he became drowsy, and was carried to where he could see the aforesaid 
palace and the manner of life of the deity ; sometime later the servants of 
Sefior de Chalco came to look for him to see if he were dead, but finding 
him living, took him home where he told what he had seen; in this very 
year the people of Chalco were subdued by the Mexicans, and became en- 
slaved, and it was said that this had been the signal for their loss as it took 
place. Afterwards all the four gods, being united in work, they created 
from the fish Cipacuatli* the earth, which they called Tialtecli, and repre- 
sent as the god of the earth, extended over a fish as having been made of it. 
