Florentine Codex Book 7

1). Second chapter, which telleth of the moon.
’Eclipse of the moon. When the moon eclipsed, his face grew dark and sooty; blackness and darkness spread.
’When this came to pass, women with child feared evil; they thought it portentous; they were terrified [lest], perchance, their [unborn] children might be changed into mice; each of their children might turn into a mouse...’ -----

2). Fourth chapter, which telleth of the stars.
’That which was known as [the wind] was addressed as Quetzalcoatl. From four directions it came, from our directions it travelled.
’The first place whence it came was the place from which the sun arose, which they named Tlalocan...
’The second place whence it came [the north] was called Mictlampa; and this was named the wind from the land of the dead...
’The third place whence it came [the west] was known as Cihuatlampa...
’And the fourth place whence came the wind [the south] was there from Uitztlampa...’ -----

3). The Eighth Chapter telleth how they held in dread hunger and famine when One Rabbit ruled the year count, and what they first did when the year count of One Rabbit had not yet begun.
’And [even] when [the year] One Rabbit had not yet set in, first provision was made; our food was hidden away, stored, saved up, and placed in bins. Nothing was thrown away; all then was saved - wild seeds not commonly eaten; musty maize; corn silk; corn tassels; pulp scraped from maguey tappings, tuna cactus flowers; cooked maguey leaves; heated maguey sap.’ -----

4). Ninth chapter, in which is described what was called ‘The Binding of Our Years’, or ‘When the Years are Bound’, [which occurred] when one by one the four year signs had each reigned thirteen years and when fifty-two years had passed; and what then was done.
’And when they drew the new fire, they drew it there at Uixachtlan, at midnight, when the night divided in half. They drew it upon the breast of a captive, and it was a well-born one on whose breast [the priest] bored the fire drill. And when a little [fire] fell, when it took flame, then speedily [the priest] slashed open the breast of the captive, seized his heart, and quickly cast it there into the fire.’ -----