New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-10-18
names were as follows

Tie seventh dsy was MO,c oaed BY the Aztecs Malat
The Ninth day .bulu, esl'd by the AEies..Ah
So Won find them in BoTuRSs Idea de historic gen
erol de Mora Espano lis and in my Yves des CordR
hyes Edition in svo vol l. 3s2 vol H. p 356) Monosyl
Liable names like those of Mox Ugh Bar Nix Chic, &c,
which wire ell names of DAYS do not sound Americanke
but resombe much more the monosylabc languages of
Eastern Asia Ii is said that in the Latin Acts of of the
Gua malocan Ecclesiastical Councils of the 18th century
this IOlec Calendar and yoan leader Of of the
Oldest mmigrating nations spoken Of As one Of the
DAYS Of the week called Poaa in Chapas and as 70
tan sounds exactly Ike lVaOdaA or OdiH-the Scandns
Wan chief ho came from Asia and from whom the Wcdens
day or Wednesday of the English got its nameas the Hin
docs call the day Buddha day all these speculaOns
concerning the American and Scandinavian ohieitan and
the Hndoo apostle Buddhs-oundor of Buddhism-ar of
high interest Ii is possible that you find out from
priests or gobCrnadores of the Indians if the eboriyncs
know anything OF the above calendar of vo;an,
the name of q common ancestor or sacred person
With the greatest respect and many wishes for your well
being your most obedi, Ut servant Al NoN HUMBOLDT,
Poi.da~ Palace, July y less
PS Unlocking my Kosmos vol III AS end col
leCed everything about Noan The Ecclesiastical Council
which mentioned Votan provincial one, of which
the Bshop of Chispas D. Francisco Nunez de Ia Vega
speaks in bis PreamIso de las CoHsiucones Dso>sanas
The twenty names of days Of TOlioc
chief among whom the four most prominent loGE, LaE
TAT Boa end CLi1Gz were each at the head Of period OF
Eve days like sunday The Mezicans called their four
principal periods Caii house TooiH rabbit Aoaa reed
and 7cCpo6 sick
Vo;an was according to the traditions in Chspas and
Sceonusco the Ange OF the Sea who after having saved
himself in canoe a great deluge renewed the human
race Il1hrociid or his Christian was Fernando
Dc Alva tie Oldest Mexican Historian of the l6th Century
relates in his manuscript history still preserved in Mexico
that in Tscp1cs village Of TeochEpan there sill existed
family sid be descendants of Votan The great spirit
TeO had 0rderd Notsn people Anahuac, Mexico and
Guatemala.
According To the hazardous specuaiions Of william
Jone. Buddhs. the planet Mars who gave his name
to the Wednesday IN Inds, is and The same PR
son with the scandinavian warchef Odn Wooden in
memory Of whom tie Gothic peoples gave to the same day
tie nsme Of "Wednesday or wednesday II Is remarkable
tha, find among The Toliecs chief OF The
snd the same day called after him Is tbs mere chance
have asked these forty years Perhaps OF tbs
sil living among the sborgipos Of Chspas snl 500
ursco
Certainly the coincidence Of the naming Of the hri day
OF our week after NciAn odCn and Buddha in three dsr
Err par's of the word i very interesting one and
seems b about time to get critical insight ino the
matter The work " Don Ramon Ooionnez, He0ra Dc
g. C-cooos S uiLsppl no. 20 be found and only some
,ktah,, Il have been given b. Cabrera and BY the Able
BosilOurg the history Of vO'an remains heroro 81; n
darkness that OF Wods NJ however and O! Ola tEo ar
f-tni persons VII son to crl ally examined upon the
hints gwen BY MUNICH n his work, DE-, N1rsse Faiks 10
"iorlc That Re ancient rcu--ls1.s OF Nsczian ard
Guamas, vel a. thai the Nays, Zo.Il SID C.dG an.
euGgCs OF Tohec origin has lately again BEEN .hoWn by
1T HEIR whose Trare o. hr.co" have, b.siles a b
;1nicsl iL,Crst ssO an antiquarian one
WISCONSIN Gov Fsrvel has declined the Peopls