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" A correspondence quite as extraordinary is found between the hieroglyphics used by the Aztecs for the signs of the days, and those zodiacal signs which the Eastern Asiatics employed as one of the terms of their series. The symbols in the Mongolian calendar... "
History of the conquest of Mexico, with a preliminary view of the ancient ... - Page 321
by William Hickling Prescott - 1850 - 407 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 144

1876 - 592 pages
...used by the Aztecs for the signs of the days, and those zodiacal ' signs which the Eastern Asiatics- employed as one of the terms ' of their series. The...Aztec. Three others are as nearly the same as the diflfe' rent species of animals in the two hemispheres would allow. ' The remaining five refer to no...
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The Christian Remembrancer, Volume 7

Christianity - 1844 - 776 pages
...hieroglyphics used by the Aztecs lor the signs of the days, and those zodiacal signs which the Eastern nations employed as one of the terms of their series. The...different species of animals in the two hemispheres will allow. The remaining five refer to no creature then found in Anahuac." — Conquest of Mexico,...
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The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical ..., Volume 7

1844 - 772 pages
...hieroglyphics used by the Aztecs for the signs of the days, and those zodiacal signs which the Eastern nations employed as one of the terms of their series. The...calendar are borrowed from animals. Four of the twelve »re the same as the Aztec. Three others »re as neaily the same as the different species of animals...
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The Christian Remembrancer, Volume 7

Christianity - 1844 - 1424 pages
...hieroglyphics used by the Aztecs lor the signs of the days, and those zodiacal signs which the Eastern nations employed as one of the terms of their series. The...Mongolian calendar are borrowed from animals. Four of the twelv ' ~^e as the Aztec. Three others •re *j nearly the wme as the different species of animals...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 1

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...signs of the day, and those zodiacal signs which the Eastern Asiatics employed as one of the terms ot their series. The symbols in the Mongolian calendar are borrowed from animals. Pour of the twelve are the s;ime as the A/.tec. Three others are as nearly the same as the different...
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The Migration from Shinar: Or, the Earliest Links Between the Old and New ...

George Palmer - Indians - 1879 - 286 pages
...similarity that existed in the zodiacal signs of the Aztecs and the Tartar nations. Mr. Prescott says, — " The symbols in the Mongolian calendar are borrowed...would allow ; the remaining five refer to no creature found in Anahnac. The resemblance went as far as it could. The similarity of these conventional symbols...
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Compte-rendu de la cinquième session. Copenhague, 1883

America - 1884 - 468 pages
...used by the Aztecs for the signs of the days, and those zodiacal signs, which the Eastern Asiatics employed as one of the terms of their series. The...are borrowed from animals. Four of the twelve are fhe same as the Aztec. Three others are as nearly the same, as the different species of animals in...
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The California Teacher and Home Journal, Volume 3, Issues 1-6

1885 - 816 pages
...used by the Aztects for the signs of the days, and those zodiacal signs which the Eastern Asiatics employed as one of the terms of their series. The...from animals. Four of the twelve are the same as the Aztecs. Three others are as nearly the same as the different species of animals in the two hemispheres...
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Religious Systems of the World: A Contribution to the Study of Comparative ...

Religions - 1892 - 850 pages
...have been traced — that, for instance, between the Aztec calendar signs and the Mongolian zodiac. "The symbols in the Mongolian calendar are borrowed...from animals. Four of the twelve are the same as the A/tec. Three others are as nearly the same as the different species of animals in the two hemispheres...
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Mexico, and the Life of the Conqueror Fernando Cortes, Volume 2

William Hickling Prescott - Mexico - 1898 - 524 pages
...hieroglyphics used by the Aztecs for the signs of the days, and those zodiacal signs which the Eastern Asiatics employed as one of the terms of their series. The...remaining five refer to no creature then found in Anahuac.*8 The resemblance went as far as it could.*4 The similarity of these conventional symbols,...
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