In Japan the seven members of the Can family, deified and figured by the same symbols as in Mayax, are worshiped to-day in the shrine of the palace at Tokio, dedicated to the goddess symbolized by a bird. This goddess calls to mind the goddess _Moo_ of the Mayas, or Isis of the Egyptians. In the upper part of the shrine, over and above all the other attendants who have wings and beaked noses, is seen an elephant couchant, the god of fire standing on his back. In the midst of the flames that surround him is the head of a bird. So in Chichen we see the followers of queen Moo, who, we are informed by the author of the Troano MS. became the goddess of fire, carrying her totem, a bird, in their head-gears. The Japanese claim to be offspring of the gods, and produce two different genealogical tables in support of their assertion. These gods amounting to _seven_, are said to have reigned an almost incalculable number of years in the country; although they assert that these primitive gods were spiritual substances, incorporeal. They were succeeded by _five_ terrestrial spirits, or deified heroes, after whom appeared the Japanese themselves. Here again we have a reminiscence, as it were, of the _twelve_ gods, that the Egyptians told Herodotus, had governed their country, an incalculable number of years, before the reign of Menes their first terrestrial king. These gods were converted by the Greeks into the _twelve_ deities, dwellers of the Olympus. The _twelve_ serpent heads, brought to light by me in December, 1883, from the center of the mausoleum of the high-pontiff Cay, at Chichen-Itza, are emblematic of the _twelve_ rulers, who had reigned in Mayax in times anterior to the great cataclysm when Atlantis was submerged; whose portraits, with the sign _cimi_, dead, adorn the east façade of the palace with the tableau of creation, showing that they existed in very early times. Of these rulers we again find a dim tradition in China in the _Tchi_, also called _che-cull-tse_—the _twelve_ children of the emperor of Heaven, _Tien-Hoang_, who had the _body of a serpent_. Each of these _Tchi_ are said to have lived eighteen thousand years, and to have reigned in times anterior to _Ti-hoang_, sovereign of the _country in the middle of the land_.