Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . criavan barbas, y decian que les quemavan los rostros sus madres con panoscaUentes, siendo nifios, porque no les creciesen (Landa). selkrJ THE VASE OF CHAMA 659 The sun god is represented in Ma^^a maniiscri])ts as bearded, and so,frequently, in Mexican 2)icture Avritings, is the god Qnetzahoatl, who,although usually called the wind god, can not deny kinship Avith thesun god of the Maya tribes. The Mayas styled the sunbeams u mex kin beard of the sun )/^I give in a, figure 184, two pictures of Quetzalcoatl, and below^ th
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . criavan barbas, y decian que les quemavan los rostros sus madres con panoscaUentes, siendo nifios, porque no les creciesen (Landa). selkrJ THE VASE OF CHAMA 659 The sun god is represented in Ma^^a maniiscri])ts as bearded, and so,frequently, in Mexican 2)icture Avritings, is the god Qnetzahoatl, who,although usually called the wind god, can not deny kinship Avith thesun god of the Maya tribes. The Mayas styled the sunbeams u mex kin beard of the sun )/^I give in a, figure 184, two pictures of Quetzalcoatl, and below^ themfour pictures of the sun god from the Dresden manuscript, Avhich maysafely be designated as Kinich Ahau. The beard surrounding theentire chin is unmistakable. The last two i)ictures particularly agreeAvith /, plate xlviii, of the Chama vase in the shape of the beard,indeed I might almost say in the features, especially in the shape ofthe nose, Avhich in the drawings of the Dresden manuscript is usuallystereotyped and characteristic for the individual gods. The person-. h c d e f Fig. 134. Figures from codices showing beard, and glyphs from vase. ages at the left of the picture, on the other hand, have beards corre-sponding more nearly to the natural sparse growth of Indians. Inthis connection I Avill not omit to draAv attention to the fact thatamong the antiquities from the Kekchi territory, the region aboutCoban, in the possession of the Royal Museum of Ethnolog}^, thereare various small clay masks and heads with plainly dcA^elopedmustaches. Mexkin rayos del sol (Perezs dictionary). 660 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 28 In one of the famous reliefs of Santa Lucia de Cozumalhuapa thesacrificial j^riest is seen in the center, and in the four corners his fourassistants, Avho are variously costumed according to the cardinalpoints to which they belong, and are in part represented as of the five personages bears in his arm, that is, in his hand, thehead of a hu
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