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but was in darkness, there being nothing else to give any light save the 
fires, so they created a sun to illuminate the earth, and this sun should eat 
hearts and drink blood ; so to feed it they were obliged to carry on con- 
tinual warfare to obtain for it blood and hearts. And since it was the will 
of all the gods that it should be so, in the first year of the second cycle of 
thirteen, which was the fourteenth after the deluge, they made a war 
which lasted two years till it was tinished ; again in three years they made 
war, in which time Zezcatlipuca created 400 men and five women, so as to 
have some people for the sun to eat,”* these men lived only four years after 
which the women were the sole survivors. In the decennial year of this 
second thirteenth it is said that Suchigicar, first wife of Pigigiutecli, son of 
the first man, died in the war, being the first woman to expire in warfare, 
and much the next powerful of all women, so many as died in war, 
CHAPTER 7TH. 
How the Sun was made and what took place afterwards. 
In the thirteenth year of this second cycle of thirteen, which is in the 
twenty-sixth year after the deluge, we have seen how the gods agreed to 
make the sun, and how they made war in order to give it something to 
eat, Quicalcoatl wanted to make his son the sun, of whom he was the father 
but who had no mother, and at the same time talocatecli, the god of water, 
made to himself a son by Chalchiutli,* his wife, which is the moon, 
eating nothing until (here there is a lacuna in the original), and they 
drew blood from their ears,”* and with this they fasted, and they drew blood 
from their ears, and their body in their prayers and sacrifices ; and this being 
done Quicalcoatl took his son and heated him red hot in a great fire, from 
whence he issued asasun to illumine the earth ; and after the fire died out, 
Talocatecli,> came and threw his own son in the cinders from whence he 
issued forth as the moon, for which reason he appears ashy colored and 
obscure. In the last year of this thirteen, the sun began to give his light, 
for before that time it had always been night, and the moon began to run 
after the sun, and never to catch up with him, and they traversed the air 
perpetually without ever arriving at the heavens, 
CHaprTer 8TH, 
Of what happened after the Sun and Moon were made. 
One year after the sun was made, which was the first of the third thirteen 
after the deluge, Camasale, one of the four gods, went to the eighth heaven, 
and created four men andone woman for a daughter, so that they should go 
to war, that there should be hearts for the sun and blood forit to drink ; and 
being made they fell into the water, and then returned to heaven, and as 
they fell and there ensued no war, the next year, which was the second of 
the third thirteen,the same Camasale, or as he is sometimes called Miacoatl, 
took a rod and struck with it on a rock from which sallied forth forty Chi- 
*See Note 12, 
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