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It would be useless to extend this table be- 

 yond the first thirty-one days of the Mexican 

 year ; but we will here observe, that the Indians 

 of Chiapa, who employed the same divisions of 

 time, and the same contrivance of the periodical 

 series, gave the hieroglyphics of the days con- 

 tained in a month the name of twenty illustrious 

 warriors, who in the remotest times had con- 

 ducted the first colonists to the mountains of 

 Teochiapan. Among these signs of the days, 

 (hdrkundn of the Persians,) the Chiapanese dis- 

 tinguished, like the Aztecks, four great, and 

 sixteen little signs. The first began the periods 

 of five days ; but for the names of house, rabbit* 

 cane, and flint, (calli, tochtli, acatl, and tecpatl,) 

 the Chiapanese had substituted those of V rtan, 

 Lambat, Been, and Chincue ; four chiefs cele- 

 brated in their historical annals. 



We have already fixed the attention of our 

 readers on this Votan, or Wodan, an American, 

 who seems to be a member of the same family 

 with the Wods, or Odins, of the Goths, and 

 nations of Celtic origin. As Odin and Boudha, 

 according to the learned researches of Sir Wil- 

 liam Jones, are probably one and the same 

 person *, it is curious to see the names of Boud- 

 var, Wodans-dag, (Wednes-day), and Fo tan, 

 denote in India, in Scandinavia, and Mexico, a 



* Asiat. Res. vol. 1, p. 511 j vol. 2, p. 343. 



