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CHAPTER 5TH. 
Of the Deluge, and of the Full from Heaven and of the Restoration. 
In the last year of the sun Chalehiutlique, as has been told, it rained so 
much water and so great an abundance thereof that the heavens them- 
selves fell, and the waters carried away all the Maceguales that were, and 
from them were made all manner of the fishes that exist at the present 
day ; and so there ceased to be any more Maceguales, and the heaven 
itself had ceased to exist, for it had fallen upon the earth.”? And when 
the four gods had seen that the heaven had fallen on the earth, which took 
place in the first year of the four after the sun had ended, and the rain had 
fallen, which was the year tochili, they ordained that all the four should 
make through the centre of the earth four roads by which to enter it in 
order to raise the heaven, to assist in which task they created four men ; 
one they called Ootemuc, another Yezcoaclt, another, Yzmali, and the fourth 
Tenesuchi. These four men having been created, the two gods, Tezcatlipuca 
and Qui¢vcoatl, then formed themselves into enormous trees,” Tezcatlipuca 
becoming the one known as Tazecaquavilt, meaning the tree of the mirror, 
and Quigalcoatl, the Quegilhuesuch, and gods and men and trees together 
raised on high the heaven and the stars, just as they are to-day, and as a 
recompense for having raised them, Tonacatecli, the father, made them 
lords of the heaven and thestars ; and when the heaven was raised, 7ezcat - 
Upuca and Quigalcoatl walked through it, and made the road which we 
now see there, and met in it, and remained there in it, and held their 
abode there. 
CHAPTER 61TH. 
What happened after the Raising of the Heaven and Stars. 
After that the heaven was lifted up, the gods renewed life to the earth 
which had expired when the heaven fell upon it, and in the second 
year after the deluge which was acalt, Tezcatlipuca altered his name, and 
changed himself into Mixcoatl,” which means viper of snow, and for this 
reason he is painted among the godsa viper. In this year he desired to feast 
-the gods, and for this purpose drew a light from the rods whence they were 
in the habit of drawing it, and hence the origin of drawing fire from flint, 
which are rods that have a heart. The fire being once drawn, it was the 
festival of making many and large flames. 
From this second year in which fire came forth until the sixth, nothing 
happened noteworthy, except that in the sixth year after the deluge Qinteul 
was born, son of Picenticli, eldest son of the first man, who, because he was 
a god and his wife a goddess, being made of the hairs of the goddess mother, 
could not die ; two years later, which was the eighth year after the deluge, 
the gods created the Maceguales, just as they had formerly existed, and 
there is no record of any other event till this cycle of thirteen years was ac- 
complished. In the first year of the second cycle of thirteen years there- 
after all the four gods came together and said that the earth had no light 
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