619 [Phillips. 
1883.] 
CHAPTER 38D. 
Of the Creation of the Sun, and how many Suns there have been, and how 
long each one lasted, and how the Maceguates ate in the time of each Sun, 
and of the Giants in those Days. 
All the aforesaid was made, and created without any account being 
taken of the year, except that it was all in one, and without any difference 
of time, and it is narrated that of the first man and woman who did as has 
been already said, about the time when these things began to be per- 
formed, there was born a son to whom was given the name of Pileetecti, 
and as there was lacking some woman for him to marry, the gods made of 
the hairs of Suchiquegar,!® a woman with whom his first marriage took 
place. When this was done all the four deities took notice that the half 
sun which they had created gave but very little light, so they resolved to 
make another half sun, so that it should illumine the whole earth. When 
Tozoatlipuca saw this he became himself a sun in order to give light, as we 
represent him in painting, and they say that what we see is only the bright- 
ness of the sun and not the sun himself, because the sun rises in the morning, 
traverses till midday, and then returns to the east in order to start again 
next day, and that which is visible from noon till sunset is its brightness, 
and not the sun itself, and that at night it neither shows itself nor has 
motion. So from being a god Tezcatlipuca made himself a sun, and then 
all the other deities created giants, who were very large men, and of such 
extreme strength that they could tear up trees with their hands, and they 
lived on the acorns of evergreen oak trees, and nothing else.!’ This state 
of affairs lasted as long as this sun did, which was thirteen times fifty-two 
years, which make 676 years. 
CHAPTER 47TH, 
Of the manner which they have of reckoning." 
And since they commence to count time from this first sun, and their 
reckoning runs on from it continuously, leaving behind the 600 years, the 
period of the birth of the gods, and while Vehtlobus was in his bones, and 
without flesh, as has been narrated, I shall now proceed to tell the manner 
and order in which they reckon their year, and this is it. As has been 
already said, each year contains 860 days, and 18 months, each month of 
20 days; and of how they use up 5 days in festivals, which became fixed, 
we shall speak later in our chapters touching on the feasts and their cele- 
brations. Holding the year as has been said they correct from four 
to four, and neither in their language nor in their paintings, take any ac- 
count of more than four years. The first they call tectapatl, and paint it 
as a stone or flint with which they cut open the body in order to draw out 
the heart; the second, cal, which they represent as a house, for by this 
name they call a house ; the third, tocAili, whom they paint with a rabbit's 
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