40 THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COPAN. 
hill), in the year 2 Calli. The smoke-curls will be noted rising above the 
star, which is attached to the year-sign by a line. Another solar eclipse 
is declared in figure 3, f, to have taken place in the year 5 Tochtli (1510 
A.D.) Again, as in the case of figure 3,, there is a sector missing from 
the sun-disk. 
In figure 3,d, is shown a comet (Nahuatl citlalpopoca, smoking-star), 
happily conceived as a serpent, which swept over the Valley of Mexico in the 
year 10 Calli (1489 a. p.).2 It was this comet or another, which 30 years 
later Moctezuma II regarded as having presaged the coming to Anahuac of 
the Spaniards, whom he believed to be sons of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl. 

Fic. 3.—Natural phenomena recorded in the Codex Telleriano-Remensis: a, an earthquake in the year 7 
Tecpatl (7. ¢., 7 Flint, 1460 a. p.); 6, an earthquake and an eclipse of the sun in the year 2 Acatl (i. ¢., 2 Reed, 1507 
A.D.); ¢, an earthquake and a volcanic eruption in the year 2 Calli (i. ¢., 2 House, 1533 a. D.); d, a comet in the year 
10 Calli (i. ¢., 10 House, 1489 a. D.); ¢, a great fall of snow at the town of Tlachquiahco in the Province of Mixte- 
capan in year 11 Acat! (1. ¢., 11 Reed, 1503 a. D.); f, an eclipse of the sun in the year 5 Tochtli (i. ¢., 5 Rabbit, 
ISIOA. D.). 
A great fall of snow at Tlachquiahco in the Province of Mixtecapan in 
the year 11 Acatl (1503 A. D.)* is shown in figure 3,¢. Note the snow falling 
from the bank of clouds. The sign for Tlachquiahco is the H-shaped object 
below the bank of clouds, the tlachtli, or Aztec ball-court, shown covered 
with water symbols, the rain, quiahuitl, with the place terminative co— 
Tlach-quiah-co. The plant to the right is possibly the sign for Mixtecapan. 

1See Codex Telleriano-Remensis, p. 43. *Tbid., p. 40. *Tbid., p. 41. 
