An inglorious Columbus; . markets or fairs were regulated.^Just as in Mexico we find Asiaticnames for the months, but not in theirproper order, so in Java the namesof the Hindoo months have been wan-tonly transposed,^* and Crawfurd is therefore led to the belief that the Bugis year is the relic ofan indigenous calendar, which was modified by that of theHindoos ; an explanation which will account equally well for thesimilar transpositions found in the Mexican calendar. Sahagunstates that the Mexicans attributed their calendar to four sages,who invented judicial astrology, and the art of interpr
An inglorious Columbus; . markets or fairs were regulated.^Just as in Mexico we find Asiaticnames for the months, but not in theirproper order, so in Java the namesof the Hindoo months have been wan-tonly transposed,^* and Crawfurd is therefore led to the belief that the Bugis year is the relic ofan indigenous calendar, which was modified by that of theHindoos ; an explanation which will account equally well for thesimilar transpositions found in the Mexican calendar. Sahagunstates that the Mexicans attributed their calendar to four sages,who invented judicial astrology, and the art of interpretingdreams, established the reckoning of the years, the night, thehours, and the differences of the seasons ; all things which werepreserved under the government of the kings of the Toltecs, theMexicans, the Tepanecas, and the Chichimecas. The men who accompanied Quetzalcoatl were said to havebeen cunning artists, especially in casting metals, in the engrav-ing and setting of precious stones, and in all kinds of artistic. Fig. 17.—An image found inCampeacSy. 5Y2 AN INGLORIOUS COLUMBUS. sculpture. These were precisely the arts which a party of Bud-dhist priests would have been able to teach. Hue says of thelamas of Tartary that they are not merely priests, but are alsothe painters, poets, sculptors, architects, and physicians of theland;^ and de Milloue states that, when the first Buddhist mis-sionaries arrived in Japan, they carried with them many indus-tries previously unknown in that country, which were necessaryto their worship. They made rich sacerdotal cloths, sacred of pottery-ware or bronze, gilded idols and luxurious tem-ples ; and, finally, the priests advanced as sculptors, as chiselers,as gilders, as painters, as weavers, as potters, as founders : acomplete invasion of mechanics with shaven heads, of artists withlowered eyes, of labourers in frocks and chasubles.*^* Elsewhere in North America nothing was known of the art ofmelting or casting metals. In ca
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