. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. 9. b Veroffentlichungen aus dem Koniglichen Museum fiir Volkerkunde, v. 1, pt. 4, seler] EXPLANATION OF WALL PAINTINGS 315 of an agave leaf. The round ends of the head knots, which are char-acteristic of Quetzalcoatl, for everything about the wind god isround or twisted in spirals, are to be found here and there. The thorny, curved ear decoration tzicoliuhqui nacochtli, plainlymeant to look as if cut out of a snail shell, seen in the pictures of thisgod in the Borgian codex, Coclex Vaticanus B, etc., is ent
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. 9. b Veroffentlichungen aus dem Koniglichen Museum fiir Volkerkunde, v. 1, pt. 4, seler] EXPLANATION OF WALL PAINTINGS 315 of an agave leaf. The round ends of the head knots, which are char-acteristic of Quetzalcoatl, for everything about the wind god isround or twisted in spirals, are to be found here and there. The thorny, curved ear decoration tzicoliuhqui nacochtli, plainlymeant to look as if cut out of a snail shell, seen in the pictures of thisgod in the Borgian codex, Coclex Vaticanus B, etc., is entirely lack-ing in our paintings, being replaced by a simple ear disk. The breastornament of Quetzalcoatl, no less characteristic, and is evidentlycut out of a whelk shell, which is called in the Aztec Sahagun textecailacatz-cozcatl, the spirally twisted wind ornament, is alsolacking, but probably only because from the neck down the figuresare altogether destroyed. On the other hand, in fragment 4b, platexxxvn, it is outlined on the shield of the god. The fanlike or wing-.
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