. Bulletin. Ethnology. 282 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28 Borgian codex, corresponding to pages H and 76 of Codex Vaticanus B, with the deity of the nineteenth day sign, h and c. Here is apparently not a question of directly doing penance, but of pious exercises in general, especially of fasting. I have copied these l^ictures, first, because the figure of Codex Vaticanus B, page 3, c, shows clearly a rope of grass by the ends of the braid which are cut. Fig. 60. Drawing blood from the ears, and imxilements of castigation, from Mexican codices. off below and terminate above in small flo
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 282 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28 Borgian codex, corresponding to pages H and 76 of Codex Vaticanus B, with the deity of the nineteenth day sign, h and c. Here is apparently not a question of directly doing penance, but of pious exercises in general, especially of fasting. I have copied these l^ictures, first, because the figure of Codex Vaticanus B, page 3, c, shows clearly a rope of grass by the ends of the braid which are cut. Fig. 60. Drawing blood from the ears, and imxilements of castigation, from Mexican codices. off below and terminate above in small floAver heads, after the manner of the malinalli, and secondly, because this rojae of grass recurs in Mexican picture writings, to wit, as a symbol for " fasting " in the hieroglyphs of the kings Nezahualcoyotl, " the fasting prairie wolf '', and Nezahualpilli, " the fasting prince ", of Tetzcoco, as they are depicted in the Codex Telleriano-Kemensis, <] and Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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