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pehuaUxtlij the hieroglyphic of water^ atl^ was 
the sign* both of the day and of the night. 
Three days after the vernal equinox, the day 
4 ehecatl, or 4 wind, began a solemn fast of forty 
days, in honour of the Sun. . This fast finished 
on the SOth of April, which corresponds to 1 
tecpatl^ or 1 flint. As the sign of this day is 
accompanied by the Lord of the Night fire, 
we find the hieroglyphic tletl, placed near the 
1 tecpatl, on the left of the triangle, the point of 
which is directed toward the beginning of the 
zodiac. At the right of the sigm 1 tecpatl is 
4 ocelotly or 4 tiger, this day is remarkable from 
the passage of the Sun through the zenith of the 
city of Mexico. The whole of the small period 
of thirteen days, in which this passage takes 
place, and which is the eleventh of the ritual 
year, was dedicated to the Sun. The sign 
2 ozomatli, or 2 ape, corresponds to the epocha 
of the summer solstice, it is placed immediately 
near 1 quiahuitl^ or 1 rain, the day of the equi- 
nox. 
We might be puzzled to explain 4 quiahuitl, 
or 4 ram. In the first year of the cycle, this 
day corresponded exactly to the second passage 
of the Sun through the zenith of the city of 
Mexico; but in the year 13 aca^/, the fasti of 
w^hieh are found in this monument, the day 4 
* Nahui atl, all, atl ; see above, p. 316. 
