He says that "to signify the first day of the world they painted a figure like the moon," &c. Let us guess this to be Cipactli, as nothing of the kind named is to be found. The next figure was a cane; their third figure was a serpent; their fourth, earthquake (Ollin); their fifth, water. "These five signs they placed in the _upper part_, which they called _Tlacpac_, that is to say, the _east_." That he does not mean that these days followed each other consecutively in counting time must be admitted. That he saw them placed in this order in some painting may be inferred with positive certainty. It is also apparent that they are the five days of the first column in the arrangement of the Mexican days shown in Table No. XI, though not in the order there given, which is as follows: Dragon, Snake, Water, Cane, Movement. The order in which they are placed by this author is this: Dragon? Cane, Serpent, Movement, Water. Which, by referring to page 35, we find to be precisely the same as that of the five days wedged in between the loops in the _upper_ left-hand corner of Plate 44 of the Fejervary Codex; thus agreeing in order and position with this author's statement. Duran, as we have seen, also places the east at the top. The same thing is true in regard to the calendar wheel from the book of Chilan Balam hereafter shown. Accordingly, I conclude that the top of this plate--the red loop--will be east; the left-hand or yellow loop, north; the bottom or blue loop, west, and the right-hand or green loop, south. This also brings the year Acatl to the east, Tecpatl to the north, Calli to the west, and Tochtli to the south. As the commencement was afterwards changed to Tochtli, as we are informed by Chavero (and as appears to be the case in the Borgian Codex), it would begin at the south, just as stated by Gemelli and other early writers, who probably refer to the system in vogue at the time of the conquest. Shultz-Sellack[TN-18] alludes to this plate in his article heretofore quoted, but considers the red loop the south, notwithstanding his assignment of red among the Aztecs to the east. He was led to this conclusion, I presume, by two facts: First, the close proximity of the fourth column of days to this red loop, and second, the figure of the sun at the foot of the tree or cross, the sun of the first creation having made its appearance, according to Mexican mythology, in the south. But it is far more likely that the artist intended here to be true to known phenomena rather than to a tradition which was in contradiction to them. The presence of this figure _above_ the horizon is, I think, one of the strongest possible proofs that this part of the plate denotes the east.