HISTORY OF MEXICO. 69 



Mexican days. The Chiapanefe names of the twenty 

 days of the month were the following : 



i. Mox. 



li. Batz. 



2. Igh. 



12. Enoh. 



3. VOT AN. 



13. BEEN. 



4. Ghanan. 



14. Hix. 



5. Abagh. 



15. Tziquin. 



6. Tox. 



16. Chabin. 



7. Moxic. 



17. Chix. 



8. LAM BAT. 



18. CHIN AX. 



9. Moky or Mulu. 



19. Cabogh. 



10. Elah. 



20. Aghual. 



There was no month in which the Mexicans did not 



celebrate fome feftival or other, which was either fixed 

 and eftablifhed to be held on a certain day of the month, 

 or moveable, from being annexed to fome figns which 

 did not correfpond with the fame days in every year. 

 The principal moveable feftivals, according to Boturini, 

 were fixteen in number, among which the fourth was 

 that of the god of wine, and the thirteenth, that of the 

 god of fire. With refpect to thofe feftrvals which were 

 fixed, we fliall mention as concifely as poflible, as much 

 as we judge will be fufficient to convey a competent 

 idea of the religion and the fuperftitious difpofition of 

 the Mexicans. 



On the fecond day of the firfl. month, they made a 

 great feftival to Tlaloc, accompanied with facrifices of 

 children, which were purchafed for that purpofe, and a 

 gladiatorian facrifice ; thefe children, which were pur- 

 chafed, were not facrificed all at once, but fucceflively 

 fo, in the courfe of three months, which correfponded 

 to thofe of March and April, to obtain from this god 

 the rains which were neceffary for their maize. 



On 



