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conftriffion occafioned by the cold of this feafon, which 

 is the meaning of the name Tititl, The Tlafcalans paint- 

 ed two flicks cafed, and firmly fixed in a plank. 



The figure of the eighteenth month is the head of a 

 quadruped upon an altar, fignifying the facrifices of ani- 

 mals which were made during this month to the god of 

 fire. The Tlafcalans reprefented it by the figure of a 

 man holding up a child by the head ; this makes an in- 

 terpretation which fome authors give of the name Izcalli^ 

 very probably, as they fay that word means, rifen from 

 the dead ^ or new creation. 



The figure of the moon, which is in the centre of the 

 wheel, or circle of the year has been copied from a Mexi- 

 can painting, from which it appears, that thofe ancient 

 Indians knew well that the moon has her light from the 

 fun. 



In fome wheels of the Mexican year which we have 

 feen, after the figures of the eighteen months, there fol- 

 lowed five large points or dots denoting the five days 

 called Nemontemi. 



III. Of the figures of the month. 



Authors dilTer greatly in opinion concerning the fig- 

 nification of CipadH^ the name of the firfl day. Ao- 

 cording to Boturini, it fignifies aferpent ; with Torque- 

 mada, the fword-fifli ; and with Betancourt, the tiburon. 

 In the only wheel yet publiflied of the Mexican month, 

 which is that by Valades, the figure reprefenting the 

 firfl day, is almofl totally fimilar to that of a lizard, 

 which appears in the fourth day. As we do not know 

 the truth, we have put the head of a tiburon, according 

 to Betancourt. 



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