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bit (tochtli) see, in plate 13, the animal with 
large ears figured in the eighth compartment, 
reckoning from the bottom on the right ; plate 
23, the third compartment at the bottom on the 
left ; and more especially plate 27, No. 1, the 
eighth compartment. For cane (acatl)^ flint 
(tecpatl)^ and house ( calli), see, on the circular 
stone represented plate 23, the fifth, tenth, and 
fifteenth compartments, which follow that of the 
rabbit, from left to right. We shall easily re- 
cognise the same forms in plate 27, No. 1, in 
the compartments thirteen, eighteen, and three, 
reckoning in the same row from right to left, 
and beginning with the lower row. The sign of 
flint is also seen in plate 13, behind the figure in 
the attitude of adoration. On this same plate 
the calli is represented by the entire figure of a 
house, in which are ‘seen the door, and a very 
elevated roof. 
Let us at present imagine the cycle, or the 
half old age, divided into four tlalpilli, each of 
thirteen years^ ; and the four signs rabbit, cane, 
flint, and house, added in a periodical series to 
the fifty-two years contained in a cycle, we shall 
find, that two indictions cannot begin by the 
same sign ; that the sign placed at the head of 
an indiction must necessarily terminate it, and 
that the same sign cannot belong to the same 
number. The following is the table of the 
Mexican cycle, called ligature or xiuhmolpilli. 
