290 GENERAL INDEX TO 
Eagle perched on a Cactus, Prodigj which indicated the 
place where Tenochtitlan was to be built, xiv, 
185. 
Earth, its Hieroglyphic is a Rabbit, xiv, 25. 
Ears pierced, who introduced this Custom among tho Az- 
tecks, xiii, 92. 
Ecaticpac, Name given to the Pyramid of Cholula, xiv, 
221 . 
Eclipses, Proof that the Mexicans knew the cause of them, 
xiv, 173. 
Ecliptic, the Nations of Asia acquainted with two Divisions 
of it, xiii, 336, 337. 
Egyptians, Analogy of their Calendar with that of the 
Mexicans, xiv, 224 5 and still more with that of the 
Araucans, a nation of Chili, 234. 
Ehecatl, Name of the Twentieth Day of the Month among 
the Mexicans, xiii, 313 j its Hieroglyphic, xiv, 26. 
Ehecatonatiuh, Age of the Air, Name of the Third Age of 
the World, according to the Tradition of the Aztecks, 
xiv, 22 . 
Elements, the Four, Instruments of the Four Destructions 
of living Creatures, xiv, 25, 30. 
Elephant, the Head of one observable on the Helmet of a 
Priest in a Mexican Painting, xiii, 211 . 
Elephants, Fossil, in New«Grenada, xiii, 12 3 xiv, 21 . 
Emanuel, King of Portugal, said to have sent to the Pope 
the Mexican Manuscript of Vienna, xiii, 180. 
End of the World, Mexican Tradition respecting it, xiii, 
380 ; xiv, 226, 239. , 
Epidemical Distemper at Mexico represented on a hierogly- 
phic Painting, xiv, 171. 
Epoch at which the Era of the Mexicans begins, xiii, 
299. 
Epoehas of the Mexican History, indicated according to the 
Era of the Aztecks, xiii, 309, 310 ; xiv, 248. 
