. The evolution of the dragon. tempelldescribes this scene as the elephant-headed god B standing upon thehead of a serpent ; while Seler, who claims that god B is a tortoise,explains it as the serpent forming a footstool for the rain-god.^ In the ^ H. Beuchat, Manuel d Archeologie Americaine, 1912, p. 319. * Representation of Deities of the Maya Manuscripts, Papers of thePeahody. Aliiseion, vol. iv., 1904. ^ Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie, Bd. 40, 1908, p. 716. * * Die Tierbilder der mexikanischen und der Maya-Handschriften,Zeitschrift fiir Ethnologie, Bd. 42, 1910, pp. 75 and 77. In the remark-ab
. The evolution of the dragon. tempelldescribes this scene as the elephant-headed god B standing upon thehead of a serpent ; while Seler, who claims that god B is a tortoise,explains it as the serpent forming a footstool for the rain-god.^ In the ^ H. Beuchat, Manuel d Archeologie Americaine, 1912, p. 319. * Representation of Deities of the Maya Manuscripts, Papers of thePeahody. Aliiseion, vol. iv., 1904. ^ Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie, Bd. 40, 1908, p. 716. * * Die Tierbilder der mexikanischen und der Maya-Handschriften,Zeitschrift fiir Ethnologie, Bd. 42, 1910, pp. 75 and 77. In the remark-able series of drawings from Maya and Aztec sources reproduced bySeler in his articles in the Zeitschrift fiir Ethnologie, the PeahodyMitsei4ui Papers, and his monograph on the Codex Vaticamis, not only ispractically every episode of the dragon-myth of the Old World graphicallydepicted, but also every phase and incident of the legends from India (andBabylonia, Egypt and the ;^gean) that contributed to the building-up ofthe IU;. II. — RliPKODLCTION Ol A PiCTUKE IN THE MaVA CoDEX TkOANO REPRESENTINGTHE KaIN-GOD ChAC TREADING UPON THE SeRPENts HEAD, WHICH IS INTER-POSED BETWEEN THE EARTH AND THE RAIN THE GOD IS POURING OUT OF ABOWL. A RaIN-GODDESS stands UPON THE SeRPENTs TAIL.
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