Note 22 — Chapter IX · ANTIQUITIES. PRISON. SPORTS.
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The Aztec name for an eclipse of the sun is worthy of remark. They called it tonatiuh qualo, literally “the sun’s being eaten.” The expression seems to belong to a time when they knew less about the phenomenon, and had some idea like that of the Asiatic nations who thought the sun was occasionally swallowed up by the great dragon.