Notes on Certain Maya and Mexican Manuscripts: Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 3-66Thomas, Cyrus
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Notes on Certain Maya and Mexican Manuscripts: Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 3-66
Thomas, Cyrus
Calendar -- Mexico; Maya calendar
[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. fuer 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, Mueller, _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 anos tornaba la cuenta a
cetochliacatl, que es la cana figura dedicada al oriente que llamaban
tlapcopcopa, y tlavilcopa, casihacia[TN-23] la lumbre, o 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.
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