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pies the firfl in the fecond year ; and on the other 

 hand, the fign CipaBli^ which in the firfl year had oc- 

 cupied the firil place, has the fixteenth in the fecond 

 year. To know what ought to be the iign of the firfl 

 day of any year, there is the following general rule. 

 Every year Tochtli begins with Cipadli^ every year 

 Acatl with Miqiiiztli^ every year Tecpatl with 0%omatU^ 

 and every year CalU with Cozcaquauhtli^ adding always 

 the number of the year to the fign of the day ; as for 

 example, the year i. tochtli has for the firft day i. Ci- 

 padii ; fo the 2. Acatl has 2. MiquiztU ; the 3. Tec- 

 patl has 3. Ozo?natliy and 4. CalU has 4. Cozcaquauhtli^ 

 &c. {a). 



From what we have already faid it will appear, that 

 the number thirteen was held in high eftimation by the 

 Mexicans. The four periods of which the century 

 confifled, were each of thirteen years ; thirteen months 

 formed their cycle of two hundred and lixty days \ and 

 thirteen days their fmaller periods, which we have al- 

 ready mentioned. The origin of their efteem for this 

 number was, according to what Siguenza has faid, that 

 thirteen was the number of their greater gods. The 

 number four feems to have been no lefs efteemed 

 amongfl: them. As they reckoned four periods of thir- 

 teen years each to their century, they alfo reckoned 

 thirteen periods, of four years each, at the expiration 

 of each of which they made extraordinary feftivals. 

 We have already mentioned both the faft of four 



months, 



(a) Cav. Botunni fays, that the year of the Rabbit began uniformly with 

 the day of the Rabbit, the year of the Cane with the day of the Cane, &c. 

 and never with the days which we have mentioned but we ought to give 

 more faith to Siguenza, who was certainly better informed in Mexican anti- 

 quity. The fyftem of this gentleman is fantaftical and full of contradidlions* 



