Besides the patron gods of the days and the weeks there were nine “Lords of the Night,” which, I am inclined to think with Seler, were not “lords” or governors of nine consecutive nights, but of nine hours of each night. Perhaps the best example of these is in the tonalamatl of the Aubin collection, where they are displayed in continuous and unbroken squares in the same small, square compartments as the day-signs and ciphers, and occupy the third and second last vertical row of the upper and the third cross-row of the lower half. In Codex Telleriano-Remensis and Codex Vaticanus A they form a special series above or else facing the day-signs. We also find them displayed on sheet 14 of Codex Borgia, on sheets 19–23 of Codex Vaticanus B, and on sheets 2–4 of Codex Fejérváry-Mayer. We know the names of these gods from the first interpreter of Codex Vaticanus A, who gives them as follows, with their influences: 1 Xiuhtecutli Good 2 Itztli Bad 3 Piltzintecutli Good 4 Centeotl Indifferent 5 Mictlantecutli Bad 6 Chalchihuitlicue Indifferent 7 Tlazolteotl Bad 8 Tepeyollotl Good 9 Tlaloc Indifferent Gama describes these nine gods as Acompañados (Companions) and as Señores de la Noche (Lords of the Night), and from his obscure rendering of Cristoval de Castillo, as well as from the Manuel de Ministros de Indios of Jacinto de la Serna, we gather that they held sway over the night from sunset to sunrise. The Mexicans divided the night into nine hours, and it is obvious from the astrological point of view that the Mexican soothsayers who used the tonalamatl must have found it necessary to estimate not only the “fate” of the several days, but also that of the several hours and times of the day and night. [339] THE LORDS OF THE DAY-HOURS This of course applies with equal force to the thirteen so-called “Lords of the Day,” who almost certainly acted as gods of the thirteen hours of the day. They were [340]: 1 Xiuhtecutli 2 Tlaltecutli 3 Chalchihuitlicue 4 Tonatiuh 5 Tlazolteotl 6 Teoyaomiqui 7 Xochipilli 8 Tlaloc 9 Quetzalcoatl 10 Tezcatlipocâ 11 Mictlantecutli 12 Tlauizcalpantecutli 13 Ilamatecutli Seler, in his Commentary on the Aubin Tonalamatl, gives the following table of the gods of the night and day hours: