Here is the narrative according to Abbé Brasseur's version, held correct by Americanists:-- "This is the sun called _Nahui-atl_, '4 water.'[62] Now the water was tranquil for forty years, plus twelve, and men lived for the third and fourth times. When the sun _Nahui-atl_ came there had passed away four hundred years, plus two ages, plus seventy-six years. Then all mankind was lost and drowned and found themselves changed into fish. The sky came nearer the water. In a single day all was lost and the day _Nahui-xochitl_ '4 flower,' destroyed all our flesh. "And that year was that of _cé-calli_, '1 house,'[63] and the day _Nahui-atl_ all was lost. Even the mountains sank into the water, and the water remained tranquil for fifty-two springs. "Now at the end of the year the god Titlacahuan had warned Nata and his spouse Nena, saying: 'Make no more wine of Agave, but begin to hollow out a great cypress, and you will enter into it when in the month Tozontli the water approaches the sky.' "Then they entered in, and when the god had closed the door he said: 'Thou shalt eat but one ear of maize and thy wife one also.' "But as soon as they had finished they went out, and the water remained calm, for the wood no longer moved, and on opening it they began to see fish. "Then they lit a fire, by rubbing together pieces of wood, and they roasted fish. "The gods Citlallinicué and Citlalatonac instantly looking down said: 'Divine Lord, what is that fire that is making there. Why do they thus smoke the sky?' At once Titlacahuan-Tezcatlipoca descended. He began to chide, saying, 'Who has made this fire here?' And seizing hold of the fish he shaped their loins and heads, and they were transformed into dogs (_chichime_)." This last touch is a satire on the Chichimecs, or "barbarians of the North," founders of the kingdom of Tezcuco. It proves the decidedly indigenous character of the story, and removes any such suspicion of a Biblical imitation, as the date might have led to. The manuscript, written in Spanish by Motolina, who belonged to the generation of the "conquistadores," has hitherto only been known by extracts given from it by Abbé Brasseur in his "Recherches sur les Ruines de Palenque," a work containing many useful documents, though already pervaded by the delusions which towards the end of his career so strangely misled this learned pioneer of Mexican antiquarianism. Here, too, we find the theory of the four suns, or four ages, given in the same order as by the author of the "Codex Chimalpopoca."