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ehecatl ; 4 rain, nahui quiahuitl ; and 4 water, 

 nahui atl ; in the years ce acatl, 1 cane ; ce tec- 

 patl, 1 flint ; and ce colli, 1 house. With these 

 same days the solstices, the equinoxes, and the 

 passages of the Sun across the zenith of the 

 city of Tenochtitlan, very nearly corresponded. 



The representation of the sign ollin by three 

 xocpalU, or prints of the feet, as we often find 

 them in the manuscripts at the Vatican, and in 

 the Codex Borgianus, fol. 47, n. 210, is remark- 

 able from the analogy which it seemingly offers 

 with sravana, or the three prints of the feet of 

 Vishnou, one of the mansions of the lunar zodiac 

 of the Hindoos. In the Mexican calendar, the 

 three prints indicate either the traces of the Sun 

 in its passage across the equator, and its motion 

 towards the two tropics, or the three positions of 

 the Sun in the zenith, in the equator, and in one 

 of the solstices. It is possible, that the lunar 

 zodiac of the Hindoos contained some sign, 

 which, like that of the Balance, might refer to 

 the course of the Sun. We have seen, that the 

 zodiac of twenty-eight signs may have been 

 transformed by degrees into a zodiac of twelve 

 mansions of the full Moon ; and that some nac- 

 shatras may have changed their denomination, 

 since, from the knowledge of the annual motion 

 of the Sun, the zodiac of the full Moons is become 

 a real solar zodiac. Crishna, the Apollo of the 

 Hindoos, is in fact no other than Vishnou, under 



