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tions. The Mexican ape, ozonmtli, answers to 

 the heou of the Chinese *, to the petclii of the 

 Mantchous, and to the prehou of the people of 

 Thibet ; three names that denote the same ani- 

 mal. Procyon appears to be the ape hanuan -{-, 

 so well known in the mythology of the Hindoos ; 

 and the position of this star, placed on the same 

 line with the Twins and the pole of the ecliptic, 

 corresponds very well with the place which the 

 ape holds in the Tartar zodiac, between the Crab 

 and the Bull. Apes are found also in the sky of 

 the Arabians ; they are stars in the constellation 

 of the great dog, called El-hurid % in the cata- 

 logue of Kazwini. I enter into these details re- 

 specting the sign ozomatli, because an animal of 

 the torrid zone, placed among the constellations 

 of the Mongul, Mantchou, Azteck, and Tolteck 

 nations, is a very important point, not only in 

 the history of astronomy, but also in that of the 

 migrations of nations. 



The sign itzcuintli, dog, answers to the last 

 sign but one of the Tartar zodiac, to the hy of the 

 Thibetans, to the nohai of the Mantchous, and 

 to the in of the Japanese. P. Gaubil informs 

 us, that the dog of the Tartar zodiac is our do- 

 decatemorion of the Ram ; and it is very re- 



* Deguignes, Hist, des Huns, Tom. 1, p. 47. 

 + Dupuis, Origine des Cultes ; Tom. 3, p. 363. 

 % Ideler, Sternnamen, p. 238, 248, 413. 



