the numbers 5^ 13^ 18, 20, and 52; we may 
even be tempted to look for some analogy be- 
tween the nine lords of the night of the Mexicans, 
and the nine astrological signs of several nations 
of Asia, who join to the seven visible planets 
two invisible dragons, to which they attribute 
eclipses : but without doubt it is only the facility, 
with which the nine lords of the night divide 
themselves forty times into three hundred and 
sixty days, that has given the preference to the 
number nine. 
The five complementary days, called by the 
Persians furtive^ or pendjehidouzdidehy bear, 
among the Mexicans, the name of nemontemi, or 
void^ because they do not add to them those 
terms of the third series, which the Indian au- 
thors consider as the companions of the signs of 
the days. We should observe, and this circum- 
stance may become embarrassing in the Azteck 
chronology, that five of these companions bear 
the same name as the hieroglyphics of the day : 
but, according to the reveries of the American 
astrologers, the spirits that belong to the series of 
the nine signs govern the night, while the other 
twenty signs govern the day. The Hindoos 
were acquainted also with genii (caranas) pre- 
siding over half a lunar day ( tithi). 
As there are twenty signs of the day, and nine 
companions or lords f the nighty the same com- 
panion must correspond, every nine multiplied by 
