341 
Most remote from each other, of the ancient tra- 
ditions of Menou, Noah, and the Deiicalions fa- 
mous among the Scythians and people of Thes- 
saly. It is true, according to Germanic us, that 
Deucalion, whom we may consider as the Cox- 
cox, or the Teo-Cipactli of the Mexican mytho- 
iogy, was placed not in the sign of Capricorn, but 
in the sign that immediately follows it, in that of 
Aquarius (v^poxoo^)^ I^i this circumstance there 
is nothing to surprise us ; it rather confirms the 
ingenious opinion of Mr. Bailli on the ancient 
connexion of the three signs of the Fishes, 
Aquarius, and Capricorn, or the antelope fish *. 
Ocelotl, tiger, the jaguar (felis onca) of the 
warm regions of Mexico ; tochlU, hare : o%o- 
matU, female ape ; itzcuintli, dog ; cohuatl, ser- 
pent ; quauhtli^ bird, are asterisms that bear the 
same names in the Tartar and Thibetan zodi- 
acs. In the Chinese astronomy, the hare de- 
notes not only the fourth tse^ or sign of the zo- 
diac ; the Moon, from the remote period of the 
reign of Yao, was figured as a disk, on which 
a hare -f-, seated on his hinder feet, turns a stick 
in a vase, as if employed in making butter ; a 
peculiar idea, which might have had its origin 
in steppes of Tartary, where hares are abun- 
dant, and which are inhabited by shepherd na- 
• Astr. moderne, tom. 3, p. 297. 
t Grosier, Hist. gen. de la Chine, p. 297. 
