. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. seler] DEITIES AND RELIGIOUS CONCEPTIONS 297 design resembling a butterfly about the mouth, whose face, paintedin many colors, looks out of the open jaws of a bird with a talland erect crest. We succeeded in bringing home a complete spec-imen of this sort, which is now in the Royal Museum of Eth-nology in Berlin, and a copy of this (front and side views) is givenon plate xlii, reproduced by photographic process. The worshipof this deity, who, in character is evidently identical with the idol ofthe Zapotec Teotitlan del
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. seler] DEITIES AND RELIGIOUS CONCEPTIONS 297 design resembling a butterfly about the mouth, whose face, paintedin many colors, looks out of the open jaws of a bird with a talland erect crest. We succeeded in bringing home a complete spec-imen of this sort, which is now in the Royal Museum of Eth-nology in Berlin, and a copy of this (front and side views) is givenon plate xlii, reproduced by photographic process. The worshipof this deity, who, in character is evidently identical with the idol ofthe Zapotec Teotitlan del valle, seems to have been remarkably wide-spread. Countless stone images of this deity, of whose birds-headmask only the towering crest remained, have been found in the moun-tains of the slope toward the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, in thosestrips of territory which succumbed to the so-called Chichimec inva-sion, the expansion of the highland Nahua tribes. In the capital,Mexico, this deity was known under the name of Macuil-xochitl, 5 flower , and was regarded as the de
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