Note 208 — Chapter IV · MEXICAN HIEROGLYPHICS—MANUSCRIPTS—ARITHMETIC—CHRONOLOGY—ASTRONOMY
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“On his bare breast the cedar boughs are laid; On his bare breast, dry sedge and odorous gums, Laid ready to receive the sacred spark, And blaze, to herald the ascending Sun, Upon his living altar.” Southey’s Madoc, part 2, canto 26.