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necessity of numbering it; besides, as the "companions" were nine 

 only, and the days of this calendar 260, they could not complete 

 the period, and it was exceeded by one, which was Quiahuitl, which 

 was in the ninth reckoning that they formed in order to harmonize 

 it with the solar, that now happens to accompany "Cipactli," which 

 in the beginning of the year was accompanied by "Tletl," and thus, 

 though the same symbols and numerical characters were repeated, 

 the "companions" that corresponded to the last five months were 

 different. And for this reason some of the Indians never failed to 

 quote them in their histories, to exalt the elegance of their narra- 

 tion, by the mention of the symbols of the days, conjointly with 

 their "companions," that were referred to the first eight "trecenas, " 

 and which belonged also to the first five solar months, and also in 

 the last with which they completed the year. We find this method 

 occurring numerous times in the writings of Christoval Castillo. 



17. In addition to the figures that represent the days, and the 

 Lords of the night, you find in the Tonalamatl (and the said Castillo 

 makes especial mention of them in treating of this second calendar), 

 other figures which are placed in the principal angles of greater 

 magnitude and with the entire figure represented ; these are referred 

 to by Boturini, in the said § 30, number 2, of the catalogue of his 

 Museum. They represent the God that the Mexicans worshiped, 

 and gave place to by pre-eminence, among the planets and celestial 

 signs, attributing to them greater and more extensive powers than 

 to the rest, not limiting it to a single day or night, but to the whole 

 "trecena, " which respectively corresponded to them; either alone, 

 or accompanied with some of the same planets ; endowing them 

 also with all the appropriate powers they could imagine. One of 

 these celestial signs was the statue, or idol (a figure combined of 

 the God Huitzilopochtli and the Goddess Teoyaomiqui, war idols) 

 which we may describe hereafter. 



