Note 633 — Chapter XVI · THE AZTEC CALENDAR.
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This order is varied by a few authors. Veytia gives the following entirely different system: 'Si el año era del carácter Tecpatl, con este se señalaba el primer dia de cada mes, y seguian anotándose los demas con los geroglificos siguientes en el órden en que los he puesto; de manera que el vigésimo dia de cada mes se hallaba Ollin.... Si el año era del segundo geroglifico Calli, por este se comenzaba á contar, y á todos los dias primeros de cada mes se les daba este nombre.' The same method he contends is followed also in those years of each tlalpilli which commence with Tochtli and Acatl. For cozcaquauhtli he uses the name temeztlatl, or metate. Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. i., pp. 76-80; Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 294-5. Gemelli Careri states that Cipactli was not always the first day of the month. Churchill's Col. Voyages, tom. iv., p. 489; Duran, Hist. Indias, MS., tom. iii., appendix, cap. ii.; Ritos Antiguos, p. 22, in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix.; Motolinia, Hist. Indios, in Icazbalceta, Col. de Doc., tom. i., p. 36. Boturini adds to Ollin the word Tonatiuh, and translates it 'movement of the sun.' Idea, p. 45. Gama places Ollin between Atl and Itzcuintli. Dos Piedras, pt i., p. 26; Gallatin, in Amer. Ethno. Soc., Transact., tom. i., p. 59; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iii., p. 463. See also hieroglyphics in Codex Telleriano-Remensis, pl. ix., in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. i., and Codex Borgian, in Id., vol. iii., pl. 24; Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., p. 304. In Nicaragua where the Aztec language was spoken by a large portion of the population, the calendar and the names of the days were the same as Aztec, with but some slight differences in spelling. Oviedo gives the names of the days as follows: 'Agat, oçelot, oate, coscagoate, olin, tapecat, quiaüit, sochit, çipat, acat, cali, quespal, coat, misiste, maçat, toste, at, izquindi, ocomate, malinal, acato.... Un año ... tiene diez çempuales, é cada çempual es veynte dias.' Hist. Gen., tom. iv., p. 52.