. Ancient civilizations of Mexico and Central America. Indians of Mexico; Indians of Central America. THE AZTECS 231 The conception of a supr teuctli, the Lord of Dualil creator who is sometimes addressed in some of the religions poems as the -Cause of ; In the background of the popular religion was the belief in the Earth Mother and the Sky Father and in the divinity of the Sun, the Moon, the Jaguar, the Serpent, and whatever else was beautiful, power- ful, a n d inexplicable. Tezcatlipoca, by reason of his magic and his omniscience, was placed at the head of the pan- theon of active
. Ancient civilizations of Mexico and Central America. Indians of Mexico; Indians of Central America. THE AZTECS 231 The conception of a supr teuctli, the Lord of Dualil creator who is sometimes addressed in some of the religions poems as the -Cause of ; In the background of the popular religion was the belief in the Earth Mother and the Sky Father and in the divinity of the Sun, the Moon, the Jaguar, the Serpent, and whatever else was beautiful, power- ful, a n d inexplicable. Tezcatlipoca, by reason of his magic and his omniscience, was placed at the head of the pan- theon of active gods. Huitzilopochtli was, how- ever, the favorite god of the Aztecs through his re- lation to war. Tlaloc, the god of rain, was naturally of great importance to agriculturists living in a rather arid region. To- natiuh, the Sun God, was a more or less abstract deity who acted in part through other gods. But the list is too long to be The special gods of five were as follows :— erne deity is seen in Ome- y, a vague god-head and. Fig. 79. Analysis of Mexi- can Record. 1, the year Two Reed, 1507; 2, eclipse of the sun; 3, earthquake at place pic- tured at 4; 5, the town of Iluixachtitlan. In the temple (6) was held (7) the new-fire ceremony .-it the beginning of n 52-year period. In this year were also drowned in the River Tuzac (8) two thousand war- riors (10) which the vultures devoured (9). repeated here, principal Mexican cities. 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 Spinden, Herbert Joseph, 1879-1967. New York : American Museum of Natural History
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