Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . color and, like Ixtlilton(see c, figure 67), wears a crest decorated with stone knives, andabout this are wound a couple of serpents, while a serpent crawlsout of his mouth. The deity is designated in each of the threepassages by the day, 4 snake , and in one of them (page 30) he isaccompanied by a dragon, which bears a sun disk on its back. Oppo-site him, as the companion figure, is the wind god Quetzalcoatl,who is designated by the day 9 wind and accompanied by a kindof serpent with a-dogs or a jaguars head («, figure
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . color and, like Ixtlilton(see c, figure 67), wears a crest decorated with stone knives, andabout this are wound a couple of serpents, while a serpent crawlsout of his mouth. The deity is designated in each of the threepassages by the day, 4 snake , and in one of them (page 30) he isaccompanied by a dragon, which bears a sun disk on its back. Oppo-site him, as the companion figure, is the wind god Quetzalcoatl,who is designated by the day 9 wind and accompanied by a kindof serpent with a-dogs or a jaguars head («, figure 71). Identicalv\dth this figure of the deity 4 snake is another {h, figure 71),which forms in the Borgian codex, page 14, one of the four deitiesw^ho are evidently distributed according to the four points of thecompass: Tlaloc, this god with the serpent in his mouth, Mix- « Die sogenannten sakralen Gefiisse der Zapoteken (Veroffentlichungen aus dem Konig-lichen Museum fiir Volkerkunde, Bund I, Heft 4, pp. 182-188). BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 28 PLATE XXXV. /
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