Phillips.] 646 (Oct. 19, 
all the other divinities, in their palaces, and court, were born two sons, very 
beautiful, shrewd and learned in all the arts and sciences, The first was called 
The-wind-of-the-nine-vipers, which he took from the name of the day on which he 
was born; the second received the appellation of the Wind-of-the-nine-caverns, 
that being likewise the name of the day on which his nativity occurred, These 
two youths were brought up in great pomp. The elder when he would amuse 
himself, took the form of an eagle and went flying through the highest skies, 
the second transformed himself into a tiny animal in the form of a winged 
snake, with which he flew through the air with so great a velocity and subtlety 
that he penetrated the hardest rocks, and became invisible. The effect of which 
was that those who were over his head could hear the noise and turmoil that 
was made below. The meaning of these figures was to exhibit the power that 
these gods possessed of transforming themselves and of their returning to their 
own shapes. 
“These brothers then remained in their paternal home, living in comfort and 
peace; they bethought themselves that they would make an offering and sacri- 
fice to the gods, their parents, to effect which they took censers of clay with burn- 
ing embers upon which they cast a certain quantity of ground poison in lieu of in- 
cense, This, say the Indians, was the first offering ever made inthe world, After 
they had made this oblation, the brothers created a pleasure garden for their rec- 
reation, In which they placed trees and flowers, fruits and roses, sweet-smelling 
plants and other varieties of vegetation, Here in this garden and orchard, they 
refreshed and recreated themselves all the time and they made near it another 
pleasure-ground (Prado), in which were stored all manner of things necessary 
for the oblations and sacrifices which they had to make and offer to the gods, 
their parents. 
* Whenever these brothers left the house of their parents, they disported them- 
selves in this garden, taking care of the trees and plants, and seeing to their in- 
crease and preservation, and offering from time to time the aforesaid oblation 
of poison, &c. They prayed to their parents at the same time, making vows and 
promises, and supplicating them by virtue of the oblation which they were offer- 
ing, and through the other sacrifices they gave them, that they would think 
well of creating a heaven, and that they should shed a light upon the world, 
thut they should create the earth, or rather let the waters sink and the dry 
ground appear, for that they had no other abode and resting place than the 
narrow limits of their garden and orchard, And still more to force the gods to 
accede to their request, the suppliants pierced their ears with lancets of flint, 
drawing blood from them in torrents, This they did also to their tongues, and 
with the blood they sprinkled the branches and trunks of the trees by means of 
a sprinkler made of the branches of the willow tree as a thing holy and 
blessed, This action they performed to show their entire submission to the will 
of their parents whom they regarded as being greater gods than themselves. 
* * * These gods had children * * * after which there was a general 
deluge in which many of the gods were drowned, When this had ceased, the 
creation of the heavens and the earth was begun by a god whom they name 
Creator of all things, who restored the human race, from which was populated the 
Mixtec kingdom,’’ 
18 OF THE MEXICAN: YEAR, 
Boturini 2, Gemelli (Anales I, '7, 299). 
1 Tecpatl, (pebble) 1 Callt 
2 Acatl, (reed) 2 Acatl 
% Tochtli, (rabbit) 8 Tecpatl 
4 Calli, (house) 4 Tochtli 
Veytia agrees with Boturini,and Orozco y Berra (Anales 1,7, 299), accepts their 
arrangement and nomen*“lature, 
