[14] Study Manuscript Troano, pp. 69-74.
[15] Les. Doc. Ecrit. l'Antiq. Ameriq.
[16] Zeits. für Ethn., 1879.
[17] Study Manuscript Troano, pp. 68-70.
[18] Vol. III, p. 471.
[19] P. 234.
[20] P. 209.
[21] P. 82.
[22] P. 209.
[23] See also hisDechiff.[TN-20] Ecrit. Hierat., p. 42.
[24] Relacion, p.208.[TN-21]
[25] _Des couleurs consideres comme Symboles des Points de l'Horizon
chez des Peuples du Noveau Monde_, in _Actes de la Societe
Philologique_, tome VI. See also his _Recherches sur les Noms des Points
de l'Espace_, in. _Mem. Acad. Nat. Sci. et Arts et Belles Lettres de
Caen_, 1882.
Since the above was written I have received a copy of his _Ages ou
Soleils_, in which he gives the Mexican custom of assigning the colors
as follows: blue to the south, red to the east, yellow to the north, and
green to the west.--P. 40.
[26] Hist. Gen. de las Cosas de Nueva Espana, tome 2, p. 256.
[27] Hist. Ant. Mex., vol. 1, p. 42.
[28] Churchill's Voyages, vol. IV, pp. 491, 492.
[29] Hist. Mex. Cullen's Transl., I, 292.
[30] _Idea de Una Nueva Historia General de la America Septentrional_,
pp. 54-56.
[31] Hist. Amer. Dec. II, B. 10, Chap. 4. Transl. vol. 3, pp. 221-222.
[32] _Historia de las Indias de Nueva Espana, Mexico_, 1880. Tom. II.,
pp[TN-22] 252-253.
[33] Trat^o. 3º Lam 1ª.
[34] Zeit. für Ethnologie, 1879.
[35] Anales Mus. Mex., I, Entrag. 7, p. 299.
[36] Monarq. Indiana, lib. X, cap. 36.
[37] Tom. 1, Entrag. 7, tom. II, and continued in tom. III.
[38] A fact mentioned by Leon y Gama (Dos Piedras, pt. I, p. 16), and
Veytia (Hist. Antiq. Mej., tom. I, p. 58). See, also, Müller, _Reisen_,
tom. III, p. 65, and Boturini, Idea, p. 125.
[39] I see from Charencey's "_Ages ou Soleils_," just received, that he
concludes the arrangement by the Mexicans was as follows:
1. Tochtli -- Rabbit -- Blue -- Earth -- South.
2. Acatl -- Cane -- Red -- Water -- East.
3. Tecpatl -- Flint -- Yellow -- Air -- North.
4. Calli -- House -- Green -- Fire -- West.
[40] See note 39 on page 47.
[41] By "air" in this connection "wind" is really intended.
[42] Kingsborough, vol. VI, pp. 196, 197.
[43] See also Chavero's statement to the same purpose, Anales Mus. Mes.,
tom. 11, entrag. 4, p. 244.
[44] l. c. See also the colored wheel in Kingsborough, Mex. Antiq., Vol.
IV. Copied from one in Boturini's collection, the same as Gemelli's.
[45] l. c.
[46] Y acabados los cincuenta y dos años tornaba la cuenta á
cetochliacatl, que es la caña figura dedicada al oriente que llamaban
tlapcopcopa, y tlavilcopa, casihacia[TN-23] la lumbre, ó al sol.
[47] See the various views presented by Chavero, _Anales Mus. Mex._ Tom.
II Entrag. 2, and authorities referred to by Bancroft, _Native Races_,
II. p. 504, note 3.
[48] Kingsburough,[TN-24] Mex. Antiq., Vol. III.
[49] Dr. Brinton, "The Maya Chronicles," p. 53, informs us that "the
division of the katuns was on the principle of the Belran[TN-25] system
of numeration, as _xel u ca katun_, 'thirty years;' _xel u yox katun_,
'fifty years.' Literally these expressions are, 'dividing the second
katun,' 'dividing the third katun,' _xel_ meaning to cut in pieces, _to
divide as with a knife_." This appears to be the idea intended in the
figure of the Cortesian plate.
[50] P. 281, pl. 69.
[51] Dos Piedras, pt. 1, p. 16.
[52] Travels in Cent. Amer., vol. I, p. 156. Monument _N_, plate. Mr.
Gustav Eisen, in a MS. lately received by and now in possession of the
Smithsonian Institution, also mentions another similar head as found at
Copan. This, he says, is on the side of an altar similar to that
described by Stephens, except that the top wants the hieroglyphics. The
sides have human figures similar to the other; on one of these is the
head of an "Alligator."
[53] Ibid., 2d plate to p. 158.
[54] Stephens' Trav. Cent. Amer. III Frontispiece.