Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . easts where « In my treatise on the TonalamatI of the Aubin collection (Comptes rendiis du CongresInternational des Americanistes, Berlin, 1888) I have spoken in different places (pp. 548and 689) in regard to this boring out of the eye as a symbol of castigation and bloodlet-ting. The strongest proof is obtained by comparing the homologous representations inCodex Telleriano-Remensis II, pp. 26, 27, (seventeenth tonalamati division, ce Atl, 1water) and the Borgian codex, p. 10 (Kingsborough, p. 29), above on the right (e
Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . easts where « In my treatise on the TonalamatI of the Aubin collection (Comptes rendiis du CongresInternational des Americanistes, Berlin, 1888) I have spoken in different places (pp. 548and 689) in regard to this boring out of the eye as a symbol of castigation and bloodlet-ting. The strongest proof is obtained by comparing the homologous representations inCodex Telleriano-Remensis II, pp. 26, 27, (seventeenth tonalamati division, ce Atl, 1water) and the Borgian codex, p. 10 (Kingsborough, p. 29), above on the right (eight-eenth day sign, Tecpatl, flint ). 368 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 28 human beings were sacrificed at least one of the victims was paintedand dressed in precisely the same manner as the idol to whom thefeast was given, and was offered to the idol as its own image. The representations in the third row are more difficult to gods are depicted here with a naked human form kneeling orlying before each one—one figure of the Codex Vaticanus is repre-. Fio. 95. Figures of supposed deities, Mexican codices. sented with his breast cut open, lying directly on the sacrificial stone—•from whose body they draw a yellow strip with wavy outlines thatends in flowers, precious stones, and straps with bells {e and /). Thisstrip begins at the abdomen, so that it looks very much as if theintestines were being drawn from the body of the figure. This didindeed occur among certain tribes as an act of torture or sacrifice, ascan be gathered from a few passages, but it was by no means a univer-sal religious ceremony. On the other hand, the color of this strip, seler] VENUS PERIOD IN PICTURE WRITINGS 369 which is yellow, in the Codex Vaticanus even dotted yellow and red,and the wavy outlines forcibly recall the manner in which the skinflayed from a human being, Xipes usual attire, is commonly repre-sented in the picture writings. Since Xipe Totec is placed among thefive god
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