Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . a^, mentioned by Tezozomoc.^ In these pic-tures the palace of the sun is placed opposite another house, out ofAvhich tongues of flame curl high in the air and in which dAvell darkforms of night. The roof is pointed like the cave temple, which, in « The moon is represented here, as above in figure 65, by the picture of a rabbit in avessel of water, the walls of which are formed of bones ; that is, the bones of the dead. Theancient Mexicans recognized the form of a rabbit in our man in the moon , as did theancient Hindoos
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . a^, mentioned by Tezozomoc.^ In these pic-tures the palace of the sun is placed opposite another house, out ofAvhich tongues of flame curl high in the air and in which dAvell darkforms of night. The roof is pointed like the cave temple, which, in « The moon is represented here, as above in figure 65, by the picture of a rabbit in avessel of water, the walls of which are formed of bones ; that is, the bones of the dead. Theancient Mexicans recognized the form of a rabbit in our man in the moon , as did theancient Hindoos. The story runs that originally the moon shone with a light equalto that of the sun ; that on this account the gods threw a rabbit into its face and thusdiminished its brilliancy to its present glow. Cronica Mexicana, chap. 38. srler] EXPLANATION OF WALL PAINTINGS 309 the Borgian codex (fio^ure 06) is represented opposite Tepej-ollotl. Itis probably intended to represent the house of the earth or stone. In the Vienna codex, page 38, in exactly the same way, a mountain. h c Fig. 73. Descent of Qiietzalcoatl and house symbols, fromthe Vienna codex. (painted green, as usual), with the radiating eye on its surface, isplaced opposite another mountain, painted brown and black, thecolor of stone, out of which rise tongues of fire (6, figure 74). In 810 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BrLL. 28 the Vienna codex is found also a representation where the radiatingeye is enthroned in a house of its own (figure 76). This palaceof the radiating eye is represented on a mountain, on whose surface
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