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It would be useless to extend this table be- 
yond the first thirty-one days of the Mexican 
year ; but we will here observe^ that the Indians 
of Chiapa, who employed the same divisions of 
time^ and the same contrivance of the periodical 
series^ gave the hieroglyphics of the days con- 
tained in a month the name of twenty illustrious 
warriors^ who in the remotest times had con- 
ducted the first colonists to the mountains of 
Teochiapan. Among these signs of the days, 
(Mrhundn of the Persians,) the Chiapanese dis- 
tinguished, like the Aztecks, four great, and 
sixteen little signs. The first began the periods 
of five days ; but for the names of house, rabbits 
cane, and flint, {calli^ tochtliy acatly and tecpatly) 
the Chiapanese had substituted those of Votariy 
Lamhaty BeeUy and Chinaos ; four chiefs cele- 
brated in their historical annals. 
We have already fixed the attention of our 
readers on this V itauy or TVodariy an American, 
who seems to be a member of the same family 
with the Wodsy or OdlnSy of the Goths, and 
nations of Celtic origin. As Odin and Boudha, 
according to the learned researches of Sir Wil- 
liam Jones, are probably one and the same 
person it is curious to see the names of Bond- 
vary Wodans-dagy (Wednes-day), and VotaUy 
denote in India, in Scandinavia, and Mexico, a 
* Asiat, Res. vol, 1, p. 611 j vo). 2, p. 343. 
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