90/131 As a ball, hit by a player, strikes the wall and then bounds back again, describing a curve, so the stars in the northern sky circle around the pole star and return to the place they left. Hence their movement was called The Ball-play of the Stars.[1] [Footnote 1: "_Citlaltlachtli_," from _citlalin_, star, and _tlachtli_, the game of ball. Alvarado Tezozomoc, _Cronica Mexicana_, cap.lxxxii. The obscure passage in which Tezozomoc refers to this is ingeniously analyzed in the _Anales del Museo Nacional_, Tom. |