﻿Gama on Calendar Stone. 



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tained in itself not only the catalogue of their idolatrous festivals, 

 but also a multitude of superstitions, about which but very little 

 mention has been made by the Indian Historians. In my work 

 already mentioned, I give an explanation of the most important 

 matter it contains, with an exact copy, which I had made of it, to 

 which I have added two plans, that are not to be found in the origi- 

 nal. The numbers and order of the nine companions, are the same 

 as described by Don Christoval del Castillo, or Nehuatl Nicnotlacotl, 

 a Tezcocano, an Indian who wrote in the Mexican language, a 

 most erudite history of the migrations of his nation and of the 

 conquest made by the Spaniards. He arranged them as is here- 

 with shown, and they correspond to those which were figured in the 

 first series after the hieroglyphics of the days of the "Tonalmatl." 



TONAL. 



QUECHOLLI. 



I. Cipactli. 



Xiuhteucli Tletl. 



2. Ehacatl. 



Tecpatl. 



3. Calli. 



Xochitl. 



4. Cuetzpalin. 



Cinteotl. 



5. Cohuatl. 



Miquiztli. 



6. Mizquiztli. 



Atl. 



7. Mazatl. 



Tlazolteotl. 



8. Tochtli. 



Tepeyoltotli. 



9. Atl. 



Tlalloc Quiahuitl. 



10. Itzcuintli. 



Tletl. 



II. Ozomatli. 



TecpatL 



12. Malinalli. 



Xochitl. 



13 Acatl. 



Cinteotl. 



In this manner we see the days of this calendar accompanied with 

 the symbols of the night, which serve to make known to what month 

 of the year belong the days of the first eight trecenas which are re- 

 peated; because, when you would refer to some day that coincides 

 in the first thirteen months of the first calendar, that is within the 

 period of 260 days, with the second, there is no need to mention 

 its ''companion," but when the date in the 260 has passed, and it 

 belongs to the last five months of the calendar, and in that case you 

 see repeated the same symbols and numbers as in the 260, this is 

 applied, for the purpose of discrimination, and as the "companion" 

 in those five months properly corresponds, in this way is made 

 known exactly the day of the solar month in question without the 



