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See Commentary on the Codex Vaticanus B, p. 90. It seems to me that, as Tezozomoc says, these were gods of the “signs and planets,” i.e. of the tonalamatl in its augural or astrological sense. If so, the definitely astrological nature of the tonalamatl might be argued therefrom.

CHAPTER X

1

See L. Spence, The Popol Vuh. London, 1908.

2

Commentary on Codex Fejérváry-Mayer, p. 43.

3

See Section on Tezcatlipoc.

4

Las Casas, Apologetica, c. cxcix; Herrera, 4, 10, c. xiii.

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