Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . until the year 5 Calli, or A. D. 1497, and in this reportChimalpahin, Codex Vaticanus A, and Historia Mexicana of theAubin-Goupil collection agree. Chimalpahin * mentions Xochitlan,Amaxtlan, and Tehuantepec as the cities which were conquered inthis year by the Mexicans. Codex Vaticanus A ^ and Historia Part 4, pi. 22. The name Uaxyacac is expressed here simply by the picture of thealgaroba tree ; the name Teotzapotlan, by the picture of the sapodilla tree. Afiales de Domingo Francisco de San Anton Munon Chimalpahin Quau
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . until the year 5 Calli, or A. D. 1497, and in this reportChimalpahin, Codex Vaticanus A, and Historia Mexicana of theAubin-Goupil collection agree. Chimalpahin * mentions Xochitlan,Amaxtlan, and Tehuantepec as the cities which were conquered inthis year by the Mexicans. Codex Vaticanus A ^ and Historia Part 4, pi. 22. The name Uaxyacac is expressed here simply by the picture of thealgaroba tree ; the name Teotzapotlan, by the picture of the sapodilla tree. Afiales de Domingo Francisco de San Anton Munon Chimalpahin Remi Simeon, Paris, 1889, pp. 10 and 167. <^ Codex Vaticanus A, page 127. Amaxtlan is expressed by the combination of a breech-cloth (maxtlatl) and the sign for water (atl), which are to be seen on the conventionalpainting of the mountain. Xochitlan is expressed by a flower (Xochitl) and an undeter-mined element, which is perhaps intended to represent a row of teeth (tlantli). Thebattle is represented in the former city, the victory in the seler] HE AKCIENT ZAPOTEC COUNTRY 263 Mexicana of the Aiibin collection mention only Xochitlan andAmaxtlan (figures 50 and 57). According to the accounts of theMexican merchants, which are preserved for us in the work of FatherSahagun,^ this expedition to Tehuantepec was an independent enter-prise of the great merchants of Mexico, Tlatelolco, and the otherallied cities. They were besieged four years, the story goes, in o o o o o m
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