. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. POTTERY FRAGMENTS FROM ZAACHILLA AND CUILAPA seler] DEITIES AND RELIGIOUS CONCEPTIONS 803 cuatl, and Xipe, who, it seems, are referred respectively to the east,north, south, and west quarters of the heavens. This god with theserpent in his mouth, h, appeared to me to have features like thoseexhibited by the representation in the same codex, of Tepeyollotl,the god of caves, of the interior of the earth (figure 66). Heis doubtless a deity of the earth and related to the god Tepey- &»e«4. Mexican deities, from the Vienna
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. POTTERY FRAGMENTS FROM ZAACHILLA AND CUILAPA seler] DEITIES AND RELIGIOUS CONCEPTIONS 803 cuatl, and Xipe, who, it seems, are referred respectively to the east,north, south, and west quarters of the heavens. This god with theserpent in his mouth, h, appeared to me to have features like thoseexhibited by the representation in the same codex, of Tepeyollotl,the god of caves, of the interior of the earth (figure 66). Heis doubtless a deity of the earth and related to the god Tepey- &»e«4. Mexican deities, from the Vienna codex. ollotl. Hence the exceedingly frequent representations of this par-ticular god on the burial vessels seem only natural. I believe we must also consider the various vessels and figuresexhibiting a jaguar in the act of springing as connected with Tepey-ollotl, who is represented in the calendars in the form of a jaguar(see the vessel on the left side of plate xxxvi). 304 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 28 Other figures and vessels evidently represent a female personage ora female deity. Thus the two beautiful figure vessels which arereproduced in the middle of plate xxxiii, and on plate xxxrv, which,together with the two others, with the serpent face, reproducedon plate xxxiii, and two plain, low, three-footed vessels, were foundin a field in the neighborhood of the royal city of the Zapotecs,Zachila, or Teotzapotlan. We had the good fortune to be on the spoton the very clay when this discovery was made, and were able to addthese pieces to our
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