. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. pal discovered recordsof prehistoric Mexico; the story of the original inhabitants in stone and on paperof the Maguey plant; here too are very many relics of the periods of the con-querors and the viceroys. The museum collection originated in a department of the university, whichwas closed in 1865. The interest taken by the government in the archaeologyof Mexico has led to many important discoveries during the last twenty years,and by virtue of the law of national ownership in all antiquities found withinthe republic the
. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. pal discovered recordsof prehistoric Mexico; the story of the original inhabitants in stone and on paperof the Maguey plant; here too are very many relics of the periods of the con-querors and the viceroys. The museum collection originated in a department of the university, whichwas closed in 1865. The interest taken by the government in the archaeologyof Mexico has led to many important discoveries during the last twenty years,and by virtue of the law of national ownership in all antiquities found withinthe republic the museum is gathering all discovered records of the ancient peopleand country. Among the Aztec relics of chief interest are the sacrificial and calendarstones. There are here also many monoliths of large size, types of deities wor-shipped by the ancient Mexican. Of these the idol known as the Goddessof Water is colossal being eleven feet high and weighing nearly twenty came from Teotihuacan, near the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon. Another THE FEDERAL DISTRICT 165. THE NEW LEGISLATIVE PALACE. hideous idol is that of Huizilopochtli the War God which is ten feet highand three in diameter. The sculptures on these idols are very , the God of Fire,claimed also as the ToltecDeity Tlaloc, is a symmetri-cal figure in stone, recum-bent, lying on its back andholding in both hands thatmeet on the stomach a cir-cular disk emblematic of thesun. There is a colossalhead in serpentine said bysome authorities to be theGoddess Centeotl, by othersto be related to the Azteccalendar as evidenced by theshell sculptures, of whichthere are thirteen in front of the cap and twenty at the back respectively indicat-ing, perhaps, the thirteen sacred days and the twenty civil days of the month. The great temple of Tenochtitlan was surrounded by a stone wall in whichwas the wall of serpents, or cohuatepantli. Two of the heads of these serpents,colossal in size, are among the relics of t
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