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iess to astonish us, when we recollect the hypo- 
theses, which in our days have been advanced by 
Bailiy, Sir William Jones, and Bentley *, on the 
duration of the five Yoiigas of the Hindoos. Of 
the different nations that inhabit Mexico, paint- 
ings representing the deluge of Coxcox are 
found among theAztecks, the Miztecks, the 
Zapotecks, the Tlascaltecks, and the Mechoaca- 
nese. The Noah, Xisuthrus, or Menou of these 
nations, is called Coxcox, Teo-Cipactli, or Tez- 
pi. He saved himself conjointly with his wife, 
Xochiquetzal, in a bark, or, according to other 
traditions, on a raft of ahuahuete (cupressus dis- 
ticha). The painting represents Coxcox in the 
midst of the water, lying in a bark. The moun- 
tain, the summit of which, crowned by a tree, 
rises above the waters, is the Peak of Colhuacan, 
the Ararat of the Mexicans. The horn, which is 
represented on the left, is the phonetic hiero- 
glyphic of Colhuacan. At the foot of the moun- 
tain appear the heads of Coxcox and his wife. 
The latter of these is known by the two tresses 
in the form of horns, which, as we have often ob- 
served, denote the female sex. The men born 
after the deluge were dumb : a dove, from the 
top of a tree, distributes among them tongues, 
represented under the form of small commas -k. 
* Asiat, Researches, Vol. 8, page 195, 
t See the lawsuit in Plate 12. 
