. Chess and playing cards. The Game of Atlas of Durans Historia de las Indias de Nueva Espaiia y islas de tierra firme, Mexico, 1880. II. CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 855 ters of their games, invocated a demon which they name Macuilsucitl, which meansFive Roses (flowers). They invocate him, so that he should give them luck An especial interest is attached to the game of Patolli from the factof its resemblance to the Hindu Pachisi being regarded as one of thestrongest evidences of the Asiatic origin of the old Mexican was first called to this resemblance b

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. Chess and playing cards. The Game of Atlas of Durans Historia de las Indias de Nueva Espaiia y islas de tierra firme, Mexico, 1880. II. CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 855 ters of their games, invocated a demon which they name Macuilsucitl, which meansFive Roses (flowers). They invocate him, so that he should give them luck An especial interest is attached to the game of Patolli from the factof its resemblance to the Hindu Pachisi being regarded as one of thestrongest evidences of the Asiatic origin of the old Mexican was first called to this resemblance by Dr. E. B. Tylor in apaper before the Anthropological Institute, entitled The game ofpatolli in ancient Mexico and its probable Asiatic In plate 29 may be seen a picture of Patolli from Durans Atlas, theoriginal being in colors. An excellent resume of the accounts of Patolli, as related by thechroniclers, is given by Prof. E. B. Tylor in the Journal of the Anthro-pological Institute,3 and republished in the Inter

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