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holla *, of the Woguls, who dwell on the banks 

 of the Kama and Irtisch ; as atel (water in 

 Azteck, and itels (river) in Vilel, recall to mind 

 the words atl, atelsh, etel, or idel, (river) in the 

 language of the Mongul Tartars, Tscheremisses, 

 and Tschouwasses -f. The denomination of 

 colli, house, very well denotes a station or lunar 

 mansion (in Arabic, menazil el hamaa) a place 

 of repose. It is thus that among the Indian 

 nacshatras, beside the houses (magha and 

 punarvasu) we also find bedsteads and ma- 

 trasses. 



The Mexican sign acatl, cane, is generally 

 figured as two reeds tied together^:. But the 

 stone found at Mexico in 1 790, and which offers 

 the hieroglyphics of the days, represents the 

 sign acatl in a very different manner. We 

 recognise in it a bundle of reeds, or a sheaf 

 of maize contained in a vase. We shall ob- 

 serve on this occasion, that, in the first period 

 of thirteen days of the year tochtli, the sign acatl 

 is constantly accompanied by Cinteotl, who is 

 the goddess of maize, Ceres, the divinity who 

 presides over agriculture. Among the western 

 nations, Ceres is placed in the 5th dodecatemo- 

 rion: we even find very ancient zodiacs, in 



* Vater. Amer. Bevolker, p. 160. 



t Engel, Ungar. Gesch. T. 1, p. 346, 361, Georgi, Ilei- 

 sen. B, 2, p. 904. Thwrocz, Chron. Hungaror., p. 49. 

 t Plate 27. 



