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English: Page 3 from the Codex Selden (also known as 'Codex Añute'). Manuscript on coated (deer?) skin. Shelfmark: MS. Arch. Selden. A. 2. Starting at bottom (continuation of p. 2). Band I (left to right) and II (right to left). M 2 Grass 'Death Serpent' and F 8 Rabbit 'Sun Headdress' have a son, named M 10 Reed 'Eagle-Fire' who is depicted to the left (note red umbilical cord). On the day 3 Rain of the year 2 Flint (884), he goes to see two elders: M 10 Lizard 'Dead Man's Hair' and M 3 Flower (no surname) who, together with another elder named M 10 Flint Knife 'Tlatecuhtli face' (on band II) carry out ceremonies in an enclosure surrounded by walls. The enclosure lies in front of the Temple of the Plumed Serpent (Quetzalcoatl) to the left in band II. M 10 Reed 'Eagle Fire' emerges from the temple perhaps after he has performed certain rites in which his ritual sponsors, the three elders, have taken part. It appears that the important thing was to make what the Aztecs called the teoquimilli or sacred bundle, similar to the medicine-bundle of the shamans (for other representations of this bundle see Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 72). The elders M 10 Lizard and M 3 Flower are seen making bundles to the right in band I. M 10 Lizard (to the left) makes his with red plumes, papers striped with blood and the head of the goddess mother-earth. Facing him, M 3 Flower makes one with red plumes, an eye which very probably represents a deity, and a type of quachquémitl with areas of red and white. Below this bundle are four black bars which may be numerical bars. They also appear in other codices belonging to the Mixteca-Puebla styles where offerings are taking place (see Oxford, Bodleian Library, Codex Laud tbc, for instance). In Band II, to the right, are two bundles, one with a Tlaloc head, and above it, one which looks like a plant with some strips of tiger skin. Between the elder 10 Flint Knife and these bundles, are a vessel with coal with flames, a corn stalk transformed into a serpent , a pile of green trunks, and another of boards or beams. M 10 Flint Knife casts from his hand what appears to be a ball of copal. Band III (left to right) and IV (right to left). The last scene still within the enclosure with ramparts starts with the date of day 6 Death, year 5 Reed (three years after the previous ceremony). M 10 Reed appears again, carrying 20 objects on a pilgrimage which may be for the purpose of asking other lords, caciques of towns, to support him in his claims to the throne of the Belching Mountain (see later in the codex). Using a connecting line, the scribe defined the order in boustrophedon in which the list of objects should be read: copper axe, flint axe, resplendent cord (?), knotted cord, vessel with blood, vessel with heart (cuauhxicalli), red disk, white disk, black and yellow bacg, vase with ashes (?), bag with down, capped with the head of a lizard, human head decorated with down, human arm decorated with down, cage with puma, cage with tiger, (continuing in band IV) cage with grey eagle, cage with white eagle, and finally, arrow, shield and Xolotl bundle which, as we shall see, were the most important and should be what the future kings of Belching Mountain must offer. These offerings are presented to M 9 Rain 'Bloody Tiger', probably his uncle, who was then ruling over the Hill of the Human Head (town where M 10 Reed's mother was born, see p. 1, band I and p. 2, band II for other more developed representations of this place). Beyond the Hill of the Head are other places also probably visited by M 10 Reed: the Land of Copal, ruled by M 8 Dog 'Alligator-Sky Support' and the Hill of the Warrior (shown standing within the hill), ruled by M 4 Grass 'Eagle-Blood'. These places may form a single town, as they appear together.