English: Page 1 from the Codex Selden (also known as 'Codex Añute'). Manuscript on coated (deer?) skin. Shelfmark: MS. Arch. Selden. A. 2. Starting in bottom right-hand corner. Band I (right to left). Date: Year 4 (or 5) Reed, day 2 House (794 or 783 A.D.). Beside this date, mountain resting on a wall covered with a layer of ashes. Two strips capped with jades emerge from the base of this mountain, one is decorated with jade beads (white discs), the other with gold pectorals. Two deities descend from the sky (stars characteristically featured as eyes), each armed with its atlatl or dart thrower, dart, and shield. The god on the right is called 1 Death (note skull featured in his name) and can be identified with the Sun, it has the solar disk over his body. The deity to the left is called M 1 Movement. He has the five painted points that characterise him as the incarnation of the planet Venus. A dart thrown by the gods has penetrated the Hill of Jade and Gold below, an opening from which was born the lord M 11 Water 'Ballcourt Smoke' (a red undulating line representing the umbilical cord links him to the dart). This lord is depicted on the Hill of the Cave with the Human Head, facing his wife F 7 Eagle 'Head-Wall-Jade', who was from this place. Band II (left to right): lord M 11 Water and F 7 Eagle had a daughter named F 10 Eagle 'Tlaltecuhtli-Red and White strips'. She is shown on the left, facing her husband M 4 Eagle 'Tlachtli' (or 'Ballcourt', outline drawn above his head). F 10 Eagle and M 4 Eagle, in turn had a daughter (note umbilical cord as in band I) who was named F 8 Rabbit 'Sun Headdress'. Band III (right to left): the narrative is then interrupted to tell us about the lord who will later marry princess F 8 Rabbit. This digression is set in a very ancient time (around 760?). Two old priests from a town represented by a vessel, a bird's head, a bundle of reeds and a copper axe are holding a meeting and making offerings. They are named M 10 Flint 'Tlaltecuhtli Face' and M 10 Lizard 'Dead Man's Hair'. A pearl and jade necklace is between them. Both elders are recognisable as priests by the gourds they carry on their backs, which contained a mixture of tobacco and other herbs. These two characters are mentioned again on p. 2, 3, 6 and 7, which covers a period of 142 years. It is therefore very likely that these names refer to deities or a specific office (in Tenochtitlan, for instance, the two main priests were always called Quetzalcoatl). The two priests then go to Apoala, 'River with the handful of Quetzals' (scene to the left where the same two figures reappear). The lords of this place are M 5 Wind 'Celestial Rain' (who is shown seated in the lower part of the composition; perhaps the famous Dzahuindanda), and his wife F 9 Alligator 'Tlaloc-Quetzal-Spid erweb', who is conversing with the two priests. The latter are offering what appear to be a stone mask and maybe a piece of jade.