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Show 460 A p p E N D I X. the wood, denoting the confhiction occafioned by the cold of this fe.tfon, ·which is the meaning of the name Titit/. The TJafcalans painted two fti ks caf< q, and firmly fixed in a plank. The fio-ure of the eighteenth month is the he3d of a quadruped upon an alt~r, lig11ifying the facrifices of animals which were made dLlring this month to the god of fire. The Tlafcalans reprefented it by the figure of a man holding up a child by the head; this makes an interpretation which fame authors give of the name lzcal!t', very probably, as they .C1y that word means, rfjim from the dead, or new creation. The figure of the moon, which is in the centre of the wheel, or circle of the year has been copied from a Mexican painting, from which it appears, that thofe ancient Indians knew well that the moon has her light from the fun. In fome wheels of the Mexican year which we have feen, after the iigures of the eighteen months, there followed five large points or dots denoting the five days called Nemontemi. lii. Of the figures of the month. Authors differ gJreatly in opinion concerning the figni.fication of CipaDli, the name of the tirfi day. According tG> Boturini, it fignifies a ferpent; with Torquemada, the fword-.fifl1; and with Betancourt, the tiburon. In the only wheel yet publiil1ed of the Mexican month, which is that by Valades,. the figure reprefenting the .firft day, is almoll: totally fimilar ta. that of a lizard, which appears in the fourth day. As we do not know the. truth, we have put the head of a tibULron, according· to Betancourt. The fecond day is called Ehecat!, or wind,, and is. reprefented hy a human head blowing wi.th the. mouth. The th~rd day is called Calli, oc houfe, rcprefented by a fmalJ. building. The name of the fourth day is Cuetzpalin, or lizard, and the figu~:e is that animal. The name of the fifth day is Coat!,_ or ferpent, and the figure is that animal .. The |