The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . VOTIVE STONES, TtOTlHUACAN. inches and a half thick. The upper side is smooth, the lowerhas some carving in the shape of a cross, four big tears or dropsof water, and a pointed tongue in the centre, which, startingfrom the bottom of the slab, runs up in a line parallel to thedrops. Knowing how general was the worship of Tlaloc among Sahagun, Appendix to lib. hi. cap. i. 150 The Ancient Cities of the New World. the Indians, I conjectured this had been a monument to thegod of rain,
The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . VOTIVE STONES, TtOTlHUACAN. inches and a half thick. The upper side is smooth, the lowerhas some carving in the shape of a cross, four big tears or dropsof water, and a pointed tongue in the centre, which, startingfrom the bottom of the slab, runs up in a line parallel to thedrops. Knowing how general was the worship of Tlaloc among Sahagun, Appendix to lib. hi. cap. i. 150 The Ancient Cities of the New World. the Indians, I conjectured this had been a monument to thegod of rain, to render him propitious to the dead ; a viewshared and enlarged upon by Dr. Hamy in a paper read beforethe Academie des Sciences in November, 1882 ; and that Ishould be in accord with the eminent specialist on Americanantiquities is a circumstance to make me proud. I may addthat the carving of this slab is similar to that of the cross onthe famous basso-rilievo at Palenque; so that the probabilityof the two monuments having been erected to the god of rainis much strengthened thereby. As our slabs are far mor
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