ading lives regulated by a calendar based on the phenomenon
of circumpolar rotation, under a chief ruler entitled the "Four in One,"
assisted by four sub-rulers, must indeed have felt that they "lived, moved
and had their being" in the Teotl or Theos, imagined as the embodiment of
the four elements. In this connection it is interesting to learn that "the
animal" itself, of Plato, is considered by eminent authorities to have
been the tetrad.

In Zuni, where, at the present day, each individual feels himself
identified with some part of the body of a quadruped, his clan totem, the
conception of the state as "a living animal," is an actual reality. Their
pueblo moreover represents a 6+1=7, or a "seven in one," the miniature
counterpart of the far distant Ooraon village of Chota Nagpore and of the
ancient archaic kingdoms of India, Persia, Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, Rome,
etc. Anciently the Zunis called themselves the Ashiwi, a name remarkably
like that of the Ashvins, derived from the Akkadian ash=six.

I revert again here to the following landmarks, which may perhaps furnish
a useful "working hypothesis" for future investigation. In Mexico the
pyramids of Cholula and of Teotihuacan seem to render testimony of the,
possibly consecutive, establishment of ideal states amongst tribes
"capable of subjection" by Toltecas, or "Master-Builders," who, according
to their method, used the building of a great structure, requiring time
and united labor, as a means of organizing a new community or colony. It
may be that the period of their completion coincided with the
establishment of the Calendar system, beginning with the number one.

In my Preliminary Note on the Ancient Mexican Calendar System (Stockholm
1894), I demonstrated how, by reconstructing the Calendar cycles, it was
possible to determine exactly when the native system was adopted.
According to my demonstration, which has now stood unchallenged for six
years, a fresh year cycle began in 1507 A.D., with the year sign II Acatl
and the day 2 cipactli. For a cycle to be associated with the number two
it is obvious that it must have been preceded by a cycle ruled by number
one, therefore it may be safely inferred that the cycle II Acatl that
commenced in 1507 followed a cyclical period of 4x13=52x20=1840 years (p.
32). Accordingly the date when the Mexican system was instituted in the
form which existed at the time of the Conquest, may be fixed as
corresponding to the year 467