Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . , v. 231, 1891, pp. 89-91. ^ Juan de Cordova, Arte en Lengua Zapoteca, Mexico, 1578, p. 202. ^ See also Totia peni quij cocijo, sacrificar hombre por la pluvia 6 nino (to sacrifice aman for rain, or a child); tace cocijo, caer rayo del cielo (to flash lightning fromheaven) . The name cocijo probably means the same as cozaana, that is, the procrea-tor . See cociyo, huechaa, huichaana, cozaana, pichijgo, linage generalmente. 268 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28 from it produced fungous growths in the corn, which tur
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . , v. 231, 1891, pp. 89-91. ^ Juan de Cordova, Arte en Lengua Zapoteca, Mexico, 1578, p. 202. ^ See also Totia peni quij cocijo, sacrificar hombre por la pluvia 6 nino (to sacrifice aman for rain, or a child); tace cocijo, caer rayo del cielo (to flash lightning fromheaven) . The name cocijo probably means the same as cozaana, that is, the procrea-tor . See cociyo, huechaa, huichaana, cozaana, pichijgo, linage generalmente. 268 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28 from it produced fungous growths in the corn, which turned came from the third when it rained and froze; from the fourth,when it rained and no corn came up or when it came up and rain god, in order to produce rain, was said to have createdmany helpers in the form of dwarfs, who lived in the four chambersand carried sticks in their hands and jars into which they drcAV waterfrom the great casks, and if the god commanded them to water somestrip of land they took their jars and sticks and poured out water as. Fig. r)8. The five rain gods, from the Borgian codex. they had been commanded; if there was a flash of lightning it wasfrom something they had in the water or from the cracking of thejar.^ This reference of the four sections of the calendar to the rain god,who varied according to the four points of the compass, which isshown by the designation cocijo or pitao for the initial Zapotec signsof these four sections, is of special interest, inasmuch as it furnishesthe explanation for some very remarkable pages of the picture manu- Historia de los Mexicanos por sus Pinturas, chap. 2; Garcia y Icazbalcela, NuevaColeccion de Documentos para la Historia de Mexico, v. 3, Mexico, 1891, p. 230.
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