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holla of the Wogiils, who dwell on the banks 
of the Kama and Irtisch ; as atel (water in 
Azteck, and itels (river) in Vilely recall to mind 
the words atl^ atelsh, etel^ or idel, (river) in the 
language of the Mongol Tartars, Tscheremisses, 
and Tschouwasses 'f'. The denomination of 
calli^ house, very well denotes a station or lunar 
mansion (in Arabic, nienazil el hamaa) a place 
of repose. It is thus that among the Indian 
nacshatras, beside the houses (magha and 
punarvasu) we also find bedsteads and ma- 
trasses. 
The Mexican sign acatl^ cane, is generally 
figured as two reeds tied together:}:. But the 
stone found at Mexico in 1790, and which offers 
the hieroglyphics of the days, represents the 
sign acatl in a very different manner. We 
recognise in it a bundle of reeds, or a sheaf 
of maize contained in a vase. We shall ob- 
serve on this occasion, that, in the first period 
of thirteen days of the year tochtli, the sign acatl 
is constantly accompanied by Cmteotl^ who is 
the goddess of maize, Ceres, the divinity who 
presides over agriculture. Among the western 
nations, Ceres is placed in the ^th dodecatemo- 
rion : we even find very ancient zodiacs, in 
* Vater. Amer. Bevolker, p. 160. 
t Engel, Ungar. Gesch. T. 1, p. 316, 361, Georgi, Rei- 
sen..B.2, p. 904. Thwroc25, Chron. Hungaror., p. 49, 
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