Mexican and Central American antiquities, calendar systems, and history; . /. POTTERY FRAGMENTS FROM ZAACHILLA AND CUiLAPA DEITIES AND RELIGIOUS CONCEPTIONS 303 cuatl, and Xipe, who, it seems, are referred respectively to. the east,north, south, and west quarters of the heavens. This god with the«serpent in his mouth, appeared to me to have features like thoseexhibited by the representation in the same codex, of Tepeyollotl,the god of caves, of the interior of the earth (figure 66). Heis doubtless a deity of the earth and related to the god Tepe}^-

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