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Teo-Cipactli, are connected with the constella- 
tion of Capricorn^ and that of Deucalion, an- 
ciently placed in Aquarius. 
We have now explained the correspondencies 
that exist between the signs of which the different 
zodiacs of India, Thibet, Tartary, and the hiero- 
glyphics of the days and years of the Mexican 
calendar are composed. We have found that in 
these correspondencies, the most numerous and 
striking are those of the cycle of the twelve ani- 
mals, which we have designated under the name 
of the zodiac of Tartary and Thibet. To finish 
a discussion, the results of which are so impor- 
tant to the history of the ancient communications 
of nations, we shall examine more closely this 
last zodiac ; and prove, that, in the Asiatic sys- 
tem of astrology, with which the Mexican astro- 
logy appears to have a common origin, the 
twelve signs of the Zodiac preside not only over 
the months, but also over the years, the days, 
the hours, and even over the smallest parts of 
the hours. 
When we consider, that the nations of eastern 
Asia employ at the same time divisions of the 
ecliptic into twenty-seven or twenty-eight, into 
twelve, and into twenty-four parts ; and that the 
same signs of the solar zodiac bear denomina- 
tions, and often figures, entirely different ; we are 
tempted to believe, that this multiplicity of signs 
must produce an extreme confusion in the limits 
