. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. elements as those in a andb, figure 93, except that here two bands terminating in balls ofdown project on either side. The god wears as a breast ornament,not the ring, but a broad rectangular plate, painted blue, which isprobably meant to represent turquoise mosaic. He wears a nose pegof the same form as those usual in the pictures of Tezcatlipoca. In the corresponding picture of Codex Vaticanus B (&, figure 94)the morning star is represented on the right side. He is stripedwhite and red, has the same dominolike painti
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. elements as those in a andb, figure 93, except that here two bands terminating in balls ofdown project on either side. The god wears as a breast ornament,not the ring, but a broad rectangular plate, painted blue, which isprobably meant to represent turquoise mosaic. He wears a nose pegof the same form as those usual in the pictures of Tezcatlipoca. In the corresponding picture of Codex Vaticanus B (&, figure 94)the morning star is represented on the right side. He is stripedwhite and red, has the same dominolike painting around the eyes,and Avears the ring as a breast ornament, and also TezcatlipocaVnose peg. The same elements are to be distinguished in the head-band and feather crown, despite the somewhat uncertain draAving,as in the corresponding articles of dress of the other figures, except SELER] VENUS PERIOD IN PICTURE WRITINGS 363 that here a large bunch of quetzal feathers droops from the similar ornament is displayed on a number of other deities in d e Fig. 94. Figures of the fire god and other deities, from the Mexican codices. The statements made by the historians regarding the exactnesswith which the ancient Mexicans observed the appearance and reap-pearance of the planet Yenus have recently received surprising cor- 364 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 28 roboration through Forstemanns researches respecting the Mayamanuscript of the Royal Public Library at Dresden. As Forste-mann has proved in his elucidation of this manuscript publishedin the year 1886 the apparent revolution of Venus, which is madein 584 days (exactly, 583 days and 22 hours), is represented fivetimes in succession on the remarkable pages 46 to 50, and each timedivided into periods of 90, 250, 8, and 23G days. These 90, 250, 8, and236 days are specified on each of the pages by days named accord-ing to the tonalamatl system having these intervals between them,by month dates, and lastly
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