. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. h the day 1 deer ,there then follows a god in the form of a jaguar, who sits abovea mountain cave, before him the sign of war (shield, bundle ofjavelins, and spiked club), food (a vessel with maize and a pulquejar), and a costly neck ornament, and opposite him, in some manu-scripts (Codices Telleriano-Remensis and Vaticanus A), Quetzalco-atl, and in others (Codices Borgia, page 52, and Vaticanus B, page46),the earth goddess Tlazolteotl or Tlaelqnani,who apparently bringa bound captive to him for sacrifice (see figure 6
. Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history;. h the day 1 deer ,there then follows a god in the form of a jaguar, who sits abovea mountain cave, before him the sign of war (shield, bundle ofjavelins, and spiked club), food (a vessel with maize and a pulquejar), and a costly neck ornament, and opposite him, in some manu-scripts (Codices Telleriano-Remensis and Vaticanus A), Quetzalco-atl, and in others (Codices Borgia, page 52, and Vaticanus B, page46),the earth goddess Tlazolteotl or Tlaelqnani,who apparently bringa bound captive to him for sacrifice (see figure 64, which is copied fromthe Borgian codex, page 52). There, where in the series of gods ofthe day signs this god would be expected to be with his female com- SELER] DEITIES AND RELIGIOUS CONCEPTIONS 291 >anion, at the third day sign Calli, house (or Zapotee Ela, MayaAkbal, night), is the earth goddess alone expressed by the hiero-glyph of her name Tlaelquani, dirt eater , namely, by the picture ofa man eating his own excrement, with the symbol of the moon (fig-ure 65).. Fig. 64. Tepeyollotl and Tlacolteotl, Mexican deities, from the Borgian codex. This god of .the third calendar section is named Tepeolotlec by theinterpreter of the Codex Telleriano-Remensis. This is evidently onlya distortion of Tepeyollotl, heart of the mountain (of the place,village, country), who was named as the eighth of the series of thenine lords, the so-called acompanados de la noche *, and who (Bor-
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