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and cihua, woman). Compare the Codex Vati- 

 canus, pi. 13, N. 2. 



No. 2. The same serpent woman, the Eve of 

 the Mexicans. The rabbit, tochtli, placed on 

 the right, indicates the first year of the world, 

 each cycle beginning by the sign of the rabbit. 

 P. Fabrega pretends, in his Commentary, that 

 the mother of mankind is represented in a state 

 of humiliation, eating cuitlatl (nonpos) . 



No. 3. (Cod. Borg. fol. 58, MSS No. 275). 

 The Lord of the place of the dead, Mictlan- 

 teuhtli*, devouring a child. 



No. 4. (Cod. Borg. fol. 24, MSS No. 98). 

 Noah in his old age, with a long beard, Hue- 

 huetonacateocipactll ; from huehue, old, tona- 

 cayo, our flesh, teotl, god, and cipactli. See the 

 explanations given, page 23, and vol. xiii, p. 

 338. This same figure is found again in the 

 Codex Borg. folio 60. 



No. 5. (Cod. Borg. fol. 56, MSS No. 265). 

 The same divinities as we find in the hideous 

 group, plate 29 ; namely, the god of war, Huit- 

 zilopocktli, with a club in his hand, and the 

 goddess Teayamiqui. They are pictured sit- 

 ting on a human skull. I have copied only the 

 goddess, holding in her left hand a kind of 

 sceptre, which is terminated by a hand. This 

 sceptre is called Maquahuitl, from maitl, a hand, 



* Plate 29, %. 5, pa^e 47 



