Phillips.] 638 [Oct. 19, 
equinox they reckon the day of their feasts, and so the feast of bread, 
which was the day of the nativity of Vedélobi from the vlume, was the 
day when the sun was in declination, and so as to the other festivals. 
The Mexican Indians believed that in the first heaven there was a star, 
Vitalmene,®® which was a woman, and Tetal Latorras (sic), who was a male, 
whom Tenacatecli (sic) made for guardians of the skies, and the woman 
never is seen because she is on the road that the heavens make. 
In the second (heaven) they say there are certain women who have no 
flesh whatever, but are all bones, named Tecaucigua,® and otherwise called 
QYigimine ; and that these are placed there so that when the world comes 
to end, their duty will be to eat up all the men. 
And when the old people are asked when the end of the world shall 
come, they say they don’t know unless it is when the gods themselves 
shall all become extinct, and 7lazquitlepuca (sic) shall carry away the sun, 
and then all things shall pass away. 
In the third (heaven) are the 400 men whom Tezcatlapuca (sre) created, 
and who were of five colors, yellow, black, white, blue and red, so these 
kept ward in the heavens.” 
Tn the fourth were all manner of birds who from thence descended to 
the earth. 
In the fifth were vipers of fire, whom the Mire-god had made, and from 
them issue the comets and omens of the heavens. ’ 
In the sixth were all the winds. 
The seventh was full of dust which thence came down on earth. 
In the eighth all the gods came together, and from there no one could 
ever ascend higher, to where dwelled Tenacatli (sic) and his wife ; and no 
one knows what is in the rest of the upper heavens. 
Being questioned as to the sun’s whereabouts, they replied that he 
dwelt in the air, and traveled in daytime and not at night, because he 
returned to the east when he had reached the summit at midday, and that 
his light then was that which already shone forth towards his setting- 
place ; and that the moon is always traveling after the sun, and never 
catches up with him. 
Being questioned as to the matter of thunder and lightning, they said 
that the Water-god had many subjects made by him, who carried each one 
an earthen money-jug' and a rod, and that from these earthen vessels 
they cast down the rain, and that the thunder was when they struck the 
vessels with their rods, and that the lightning flashed from these vessels. 
The people of Culuacan say that they came, conjointly with the Mexi- 
cans, to Tula, and there they split and went direct to Ouluacan, and 
thence to Suchimiteo and Malinaleo and Ocuyla. These four towns they 
settled and on the way peopled Cuitralavaca, and so 120 years passed 
away, and afterwards the Mexicans came and arrived at Chapultepec, as 
has been said, and waged war on the people of Culuacan. 
In the histories of Mexico, represented by Indian paintings, are shown 
many naked Indians, at whose beginning are some clothed in plants, 
