. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. my which are exactly confirmedby Sahasim in his account, in the seventh book of his historic ? Verhandlunjren der Berliner Gesellschaft fur Anthropologic, Ethnologie, und Urge-schichte, 1898, pp. 346 to 383. 355 356 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28 work, of the constellations observed by the ancient Mexicans. In theoriginal Mexican text of this work, which is preserved in the Biblio-teca del Palacio at Madrid, the different celestial bodies and constel-lations mentioned in the text are also represented by picture
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. my which are exactly confirmedby Sahasim in his account, in the seventh book of his historic ? Verhandlunjren der Berliner Gesellschaft fur Anthropologic, Ethnologie, und Urge-schichte, 1898, pp. 346 to 383. 355 356 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28 work, of the constellations observed by the ancient Mexicans. In theoriginal Mexican text of this work, which is preserved in the Biblio-teca del Palacio at Madrid, the different celestial bodies and constel-lations mentioned in the text are also represented by pictures in therespective chapters. Pictures are given of tonatiuh, the sun (a,figure 92) ; of metztli, the moon (b, same figure) ; of citlalpol, themorning star, the planet Venus , c; of citlalpopoca, the comet , d,and of the star which the Mexicans called citlaltlamina, the shoot- ing star Among these, finally, are five constellations, of which three—mamalhuaztli, // xonecuilli, i; and colotl, k—are marked bythe accompanying names as corresponding to three of the above-. ^^^ i h Fig. 92. Mexican figures of the sun, moon, and certain stars and constellations. named constellations, while the other two, g and A, prove by theirform and design to be representations of the others named above, theconstellation of the Pleiades and the star ball ground, thecitlaltlachtli. That marked /, mamalhuaztli, the fire drill , the fire sticks , isdesignated by Tezozomoc as the keys of Saint Peter . It must bea constellation in which two rows of stars meet at an acute Molina, mamalhuaztli is translated astillejos (sticks of wood)constelacion . Sahagun designates the constellation as the wandsof the sky, which are near the Pleiades, a group of stars in Taurus (los mastelejos del cielo que andan cerca de las cabrillas, que es elsigno del toro). Gemini of the zodiac are called astillejos (sticks seler] VENUS PERIOD IN PICTURE WRITINGS 357 of wood) in Spanish. These stars, however, seem out of
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