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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, tochili, 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 {^ioirpog). 
No. 3. (Cod. Borg. fol. 58, MSS No. 275). 
The Lord of the place of the dead, Mictlan- 
teuhtW^ devouring a child. 
No. 4. (Cod. Borg. fol. 24, MSS No. 98). 
Noah in his old age, with a long beard, Hue- 
huetonacateocijpactU ; from huehue, old, tona- 
cayo, our flesh, teotl, god, and ciyactli. 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- 
zilopochtU, 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, 1%. 5, page 47 
