Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . RELIEF DESIGNS FROM THE WALLS AT MITLA SRLKRJ DETTFES AND RELTGrOtJS CON(^EPTTONS 295 of his grandfather, Noah ; and that he was the first man whom God sent todivide and api)ortion this country of India, and that there, wliere ho saw thegreat wall, he gave to every nation its special language. It is related that hetarried in Iluehueta [which is a city in Soconusco] and that there he i)laced atapir and a great treasure in a slippery [damp, dark, subterranean! house,which he built by the breath of his nostrils, and he app
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . RELIEF DESIGNS FROM THE WALLS AT MITLA SRLKRJ DETTFES AND RELTGrOtJS CON(^EPTTONS 295 of his grandfather, Noah ; and that he was the first man whom God sent todivide and api)ortion this country of India, and that there, wliere ho saw thegreat wall, he gave to every nation its special language. It is related that hetarried in Iluehueta [which is a city in Soconusco] and that there he i)laced atapir and a great treasure in a slippery [damp, dark, subterranean! house,which he built by the breath of his nostrils, and he appointed a woman aschieftain, with tapianes [tiuit is, Mexican tlapiani, keepers] to guard treasure consisted of jars, which were closed with covers of the same clay,and of a room in which the pictin-e of the ancient heathens who are in the cal-endar were engra^ed in stone, together with chalchiuites [which are small,heavy, green stones] and other superstitious images; and the chieftainess her-self and the tapianes. her guardians, surrendered all these things, wh
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